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February 5, 2025

North Lawndale Fresh Program Announces 2025 Call for Ideas

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North Lawndale Fresh Program Announces 2025 Call for Ideas

Fresh Taste has announced the 2025 North Lawndale Fresh Call for Ideas. Submissions are due by March 2, 2025.

North Lawndale Fresh seeks to encourage fulfillment of the goals of North Lawndale’s “Greening and Open Space” and “Health and Wellness” goals via food by supporting organizations working to do the following:

  1. Build the North Lawndale economy through food-related businesses including grocery and culinary enterprises
  2. Expand access and quality of green spaces and food production
  3. Develop and promote culturally relevant food justice and nutrition education
  4. Innovate emergency food efforts and nutrition assistance programs that expand healthy food options
  5. Promote information on food resources and activities to North Lawndale residents.

Fresh Taste will reach out to request full proposals on or before March 25, 2025. The deadline for full proposals is April 22, 2025. Grant decisions will be made by a committee of foundation representatives and community members. Grants will be awarded by June 3, 2025.

For more information or to apply for this program, visit the Fresh Taste website.

 

North Lawndale Fresh is a collaborative fund established in 2022 by Builders Initiative, Food:Land:Opportunity, The Lumpkin Family Foundation, Steans Family Foundation and the Walter Mander Foundation. Over five years (2022-2026), the funders will work collaboratively with partners to expand healthy retail options, support community gardens and local food production, grow food enterprises, and protect and strengthen food assistance programs in the North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side.

Austin Fresh and North Lawndale Fresh

Region: Chicago Area

The Lumpkin Family Foundation is guided by the vision of a Healthy, Sustainable World.

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