Aspiramos Juntos
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
NeighborSpace
To support comprehensive stewardship activities in 120+ NeighborSpace community gardens and neighborhood farms, including ongoing maintenance and training garden/farm leaders and other volunteers.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Foundation of Little Village
To expand the participation of the Cocina Rx preventive care food clinic pilot program based on personalized nutrition through medically tailored meals w/advanced microbiome testing (University of Chicago), tele-nutrition, health coaching, and culinary arts training.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Academy for Global Citizenship
To support Cultivate Collective’s urban agriculture start-up costs associated with the launch of their three-acre farm and associated programs. The farm is located in Southwest Chicago at the site of a former Chicago Housing Authority community, approximately 1.5 miles from Midway Airport.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
The Good Food Catalyst
To provide training and education for ‘good food’ entrepreneurs to achieve scale, sustainability, and financial stability, with a focus on women and minority-owned businesses that may lack traditional access to training and business education opportunities.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
One Earth Collective
To continue the One Earth Film Festival (OEFF), its youth initiatives, and to develop a branded, turnkey model to allow our extensive Chicago-area partner network to autonomously manage film events at a quality consistent with those offered directly by OEFF.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Growing Home, Inc.
To support the Food Access program, designed to improve the health of the local community through food delivery and outreach showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Healthy Schools Campaign
For continued funding of HSC's work ensuring that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors. This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Friends of the Chicago River
For continued support of the Chicago River Schools Network (CRSN) program, providing K-12 teachers and students with free virtual and in-person resources for immersing students in the history, ecology, and improving health of the Chicago River watershed, a 673-square-mile region that encompasses the City of Chicago and much of Cook County, plus portions of Lake County and beyond.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2022
Heartland Human Care Services
To fund the rebuilding of the on-site greenhouse at HHCS' main farm in East Garfield Park. The greenhouse will increase crop production, minimize plant disease, and provide additional space for learning and skill set training for Transitional Jobs participants.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Chicago Lights Urban Farm
For the purchase of Farm Camp supplies and to support the salary costs of staff members who will provide five weeks of positive youth development opportunities for children ages six through eleven residing in the Cabrini Green public housing development at no cost to their families.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Heartland Human Care Services
To support Chicago FarmWorks, which grows food on several urban agricultural sites, formerly vacant or blighted areas of our community, and provides residents with farm-totable, hyper-local produce. In addition to increasing access to healthy food, FarmWorks expands individuals’ economic opportunities by offering job training and transitional employment at their main farm site and community-based employment partner sites.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Seven Generations Ahead
For general operations support to build healthy and sustainable communities, with the primary focus on equitable sustainability and driving greenhouse gas emissions reductions through projects with Chicago Public Schools and policies that ensure equitable outcomes and support the development of the renewable and circular economy.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Gardeneers
To support Gardeneers' network of partner schools, primarily on the West and South slides of Chicago, in low-income, under-resourced communities of color that face barriers to fresh, healthy food access. Their school farm and garden programs contribute positively to the larger food system by building students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills to directly address food inequality and become leaders who care for themselves, their communities, and their environment.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
People Matter
For general operations support for building organizational capacity to advance their mission through projects and leadership development work that nurtures and cultivates community leaders to protect and improve their communities in addressing environmental justice and sustainability.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Just Roots Chicago
To support two of our core educational initiatives at the It Takes A Village Community Farm in Sauk Village —Youth Education and Fresh Food Farmacy. These programs serve students 6th-12th grade and families with chronic and/or diet related health conditions to provide access to farm fresh food, hands-on gardening and cooking education, and opportunities to build relationships with their neighbors.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Forest Preserve Foundation
To support the Forest Preserve Experience, a paid summer jobs program for youth served by the Housing Authority of Cook County, to engage participants in team building exercises, job skills and financial literacy training, environmental education, and conservation efforts in local preserves throughout south and west Cook County.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2022
Openlands
To support the Building School Gardens (BSG) program to share expertise, resources, and encouragement in spending time outdoors learning about and working with the natural world in two distinct ways: workshops and in-garden support for 91 schools and their surrounding communities.
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Aspiramos Juntos2021
Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever
To assist with funding a Precision Ag Conservationist (PAC) Position in East Central Illinois to develop solutions that will encourage producers to adopt new practices that will improve their environmental impact.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Trinity UCC Child Care Centers, Inc.
To support the Trinity Eats Education program, focused on helping children and their parents become more knowledgeable about nutrition and enabling them to make healthy choices every day.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Growing Home, Inc.
To support Growing Home's Food Access Program with activities designed to improve the health of the entire community by showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible. Funds will go towards new initiatives in food delivery and outreach in light of COVID-19.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support HSC's local and national work that ensures that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors. This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in Garfield Park.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Friends of the Chicago River
To support the Chicago River Schools Network which provides K-12 teachers the training and personalized assistance they need to immerse their students in the turbulent history, evolving ecology, and improving health of the Chicago River.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
NeighborSpace
To support comprehensive stewardship activities in the more than 120 NBSP community gardens and neighborhood farms.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Plant Chicago, NFP
To support building out a center for circular economy programming in a former firehouse on the southwest side of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2021
Seven Generations Ahead
To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2021
Openlands
To support the Building School Gardens (BSG) program. In fall 2021, BSG will support 91 schools, nearly 50,000 enrolled students, and their surrounding communities with similar demographics. BSG supports students, teachers, and community members by sharing expertise, resources, and encouragement in spending time outdoors learning about and working with the natural world in two distinct ways: workshops and in-garden support.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2021
Faith in Place
To support Faith in Place’s Chicago Eco-Ambassadors program which provides youth, ages 14-18, with enriching opportunities to learn about environmental justice and sustainability; engage in the natural world through camping and habitat stewardship; and grow their leadership, communications, and career skills.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2021
Star Farm Chicago
To support Star Farm's bi-monthly Family Garden Days. Each 4-hour session will be held either at the Star Farm Community Garden or the Star Farm Incubator Farm. The programs will include a garden workshop led by one of the Star farm incubator growers, one of the Star Farm outreach staff, and/or a guest speaker or artist.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2021
Gardeneers
To support Gardeneers' network of partner schools, primarily on the West and South slides of Chicago, in low-income, under-resourced communities of color that face barriers to fresh, healthy food access. Their school farm and garden programs contribute positively to the larger food system by building students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills to directly address food inequality and become leaders who care for themselves, their communities, and their environment.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2021
Heartland Human Care Services
To support Chicago FarmWorks which grows food on several urban agricultural sites, formerly vacant or blighted areas of our community, and provides residents with farm-totable, hyper-local produce. In addition to increasing access to healthy food, FarmWorks expands individuals’ economic opportunities by offering job training and transitional employment at their main farm site and community-based employment partner sites.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital
To support “Healthy Food, Healthy Kids, Healthy Planet” which will be a digital curriculum for organizations serving youth ages 12-18. The curriculum will link healthy eating and physical activity to climate change, food justice, and health equity and emphasize opportunities for youth.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Forest Preserve Foundation, Inc.
To support The Forest Preserve Experience, a summer internship program that provides paid conservation work to youth served by the Housing Authority of Cook County. Taking place in local preserves throughout South and West Cook County, this program intends to introduce underserved youth to conservation and the environment while providing work experience and professional development opportunities.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Growing Home, Inc.
To support Growing Home's Food Access Program with activities designed to improve the health of the entire community by showing residents of all ages that nutritious choices can be affordable, easy, and accessible. Funds will go towards new initiatives in food delivery and outreach in light of COVID-19.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
NeighborSpace
To support revitalization of Unity Park in North Lawndale. The project will create a place of recreation, respite, and community building in a West Side neighborhood that lacks accessible, intergenerational public green space for outdoor activities and community gatherings that promote physical and emotional health and well-being.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Plant Chicago
To support Plant Chicago’s nutrition and STEM education work with K -12 students, with a particular focus on their partner schools in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and the Southwest Side of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support Healthy Schools Campaign's work to ensure that Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, eat and grow healthy food, and engage with the outdoors. This work contributes to sustainable food systems and environmental practices throughout the region.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, which supports resident-led food access programs through local gardens and community events to improve health outcomes and build economic opportunities in Garfield Park.
View Garfield Park Community Council's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Seven Generations Ahead
To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.
View Seven Generations Ahead's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2020
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
To support AUA's coordinated technical assistance initiative that will produce a series of deliverables designed to help Chicago area farmers expand their capacity to both produce and distribute locally grown food and value added products, addressing a growing demand for healthy, local food.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2020
Gardeneers
To support their team of growers and educators who continue growing food on their largest production sites for at-risk Chicago residents with plans to grow nearly 10,000 pounds of produce to be safely donated in these communities in 2020.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2020
Angelic Organics Learning Center
To support On-Farm program scholarships to subsidize children who attend the Learning Center’s day camp, custom programs, and school programs.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2020
Openlands
To inform teachers of the benefit of using the school garden as an extension of the classroom and to encourage parents and community members to share the sense of ownership of the school garden through workshops that will also be offered in Spanish.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2020
Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens
To support the Grow Your Groceries Campaign at St. Sabina's Stein Learning Gardens. Grow Your Groceries is a collaborative effort of four non-profit urban agriculture organizations and three Chicago university contributors to deliver home garden kits to food insecure families starting on the south side of Chicago in Auburn-Gresham, Back of the Yards, Englewood, and Chicago Lawn.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2020
Heartland Human Care Services
To support Chicago FarmWorks’ community garden, broadening its reach and deepening its impact by supporting staff and food production costs associated with implementing the program and expanding community engagement.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Gardeneers
To support the expansion of their Growing School Gardens program across their network of 20 partner schools.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Big Green
To support the staff, training, and materials needed to bring their Learning Gardens to life.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Chicago Academy of Sciences
To support Chicago Conservation Corp which strengthens volunteer leaders to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across Chicago through self-determined service projects that address environmental sustainability issues in their own communities.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Openlands
To inform teachers of the benefit of using the school garden as an extension of the classroom and to encourage parents and community members to share the sense of ownership of the school garden through workshops that will also be offered in Spanish.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Heartland Human Care Services
To support Chicago FarmWorks’ new community garden, ensuring that the program is able to maximize growing capacity, as well as support program operations at the East Garfield Park and Harvest Commons sites.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Catholic Bishop of Chicago - Stein Learning Gardens
To support “Phase II Production Expansion Project” at Stein Learning Gardens, which aims to greatly expand their programming by developing a double-wide lot near the Saint Sabina Church campus.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Angelic Organics Learning Center
To support On-Farm program scholarships. Scholarships subsidize children who attend the Learning Center’s day camp, overnight camp, custom, and school programs.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Opportunity Knocks
To support the Knockout Farm which is operated by more than 75 young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from Oak Park/River Forest and surrounding communities.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2019
Just Roots
To support construction of three raised garden beds for teaching students gardening skills in their Community Learning Gardens in Bronzeville and Englewood.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Garfield Park Community Council
To support improvements to the Garfield Park Neighborhood Market, which sells produce harvested through the Garfield Park Garden Network.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Enlace Chicago
To support the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Plant Chicago
To support Plant Chicago’s nutrition and STEM education work with K -12 students, with a particular focus on their partner schools in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and the Southwest Side of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
To support AUA's coordinated technical assistance initiative that will produce a series of deliverables designed to help Chicago area farmers expand their capacity to both produce and distribute locally grown food and value added products, addressing a growing demand for healthy, local food.
View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Seven Generations Ahead
To support general operations, with a particular focus on advancing solar energy installations and procurement, implementing GreenTown Climate Crisis 2020, advancing food recovery and composting through the Wasted Food Action Alliance, and expanding the It’s Our Future program to new metro area communities.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
NeighborSpace
To support activities associated with designing a nature play area at the newly acquired Harambee Community Garden in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, developing community leaders, and plans for stewarding and programming the garden site.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support work ensuring that 361,000 Chicago students have access to healthy school environments where they can learn and thrive, including the change to eat and grow healthy food and engage with the outdoors.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Oak Park River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative
To support Joey FineRhyme Assemblies and Workshops for K-8 schools through the Oak Park and River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2019
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To support OEFF as they continue their mission-based work by evolving their organizational model, strengthening their youth programs for building advocacy and resiliency of the next generation, and continuing to provide rich film programs that demonstrate how healthy, sustainable food systems can solve problems relating to human and environmental health.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Green City Market
To support Edible Education: Farm, School, and Home in 2019, providing interactive food-based learning for Chicago students and increasing local food access to Chicago families.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Enlace Chicago
To support Enlace’s Community Garden Initiative which supports the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Growing Home
To support A New Farm for Englewood which is a 16,500 square foot farm in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. This will add a third site to their farm campus and grow an additional 8,000 pounds of produce per year--all of which they will keep in Englewood through affordable sales or donations.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To support One Earth Film Festival: Collaboration for Healthier People and Planet which provides expanded programming, engagement and impact in the greater Chicagoland region, through their annual 10-day Festival in March 2019, and innovative programming that has evolved from, and enhanced the reach of, the Festival.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Girls in the Game
To support Girls in the Game's After School program, which is provided at no cost to girls or their families in communities with high rates of poverty and violence including Englewood, Humboldt Park, and North Lawndale. Girls in the Game runs weekly programming that encourages physical activity and physical and emotional health at 35 Chicago sites for three 10-week seasons as well as events on days of non-school attendance.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange
To support an "End of School Year Donation Drive" in Spring 2019 that engages suburban and city schools in creative reuse, aiding them in their "green" efforts to go beyond recycling to include redistributing and reuse.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support Change for Good, an effort to transform Chicago schools and classrooms so children have the opportunity to eat well, grow food, be physically active and spend time outdoors.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, in which the GPCC aims to improve access to local, fresh food and use the local food movement as a tool for economic and community development.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Oak Park River Forest School Green Teams Collaborative
To support bringing educational and motivational school assemblies to Oak Park and River Forest Schools that will increase K-8 student knowledge of environmental issues and community sustainability efforts and provoke individual action.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall 2018
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
To support the Curious Little Bee / La Pequeña Abeja Curiosa program which invites participants to build a personal relationship with the natural world, our local food systems, and the importance of bee and other pollinator life to environmental sustainability.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
The WasteShed
To support environmental education about “creative reuse” and preventing waste, with a focus on children and youth, teacher support, and school programming.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Gardeneers
To expand programming at 4 partner schools North Lawndale and to serve each of the partner schools twice per week and double the students directly served in the school garden programs to total 520 students. To also implement a Student Run Community Farm stand each week for parents and neighbors of each school.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Grow Greater Englewood
GGE will provide an infrastructure and assist local urban farmers to create economically viable community-based farm enterprises along the elevated rail viaduct between 58th and 59th Streets in Chicago. Englewood Community Farms will provide land, shared equipment, and entrepreneurship training for 4-5 for-profit or cooperative farming operations on contiguous parcels of land.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Openlands
To support Building School Gardens which works with 58 Chicago Public Schools to care for and maintain their school garden as both an outdoor classroom during school and a neighborhood park after school and on the weekends. The program aims to foster the next generation of environmental stewards by building awareness of and respect for the natural world while improving the quality of life for the entire community.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
To support a new individualized training initiative to help growers scale and professionalize their operations, as well as expanded outreach that will deliver education, mentoring, and resources to existing and potential growers in some of Chicago's most distressed communities.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Plant Chicago
To support Closed Loop in the Classroom, an initiative of Plant Chicago, which educates K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. In addition to education, the initiative will increase community participation in Plant Chicago’s year-round farmers market, Cooking Matters, and new Community Learning Circle.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring 2018
Big Green
To support two programmatic activities within our Learning Garden schools: Edible Garden Initiative and Garden-Based Education Initiative which ensure integration and implementation of Learning Garden programming in the classroom and school culture, and teach the teachers to use their Learning Garden to its fullest extent across grade levels and subjects.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Enlace Chicago
To support the development of resident-run garden spaces in the Little Village community with environmental and health-related programming in the gardens. View Enlace Chicago 's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Purple Asparagus
To support the Delicious Nutritious Adventures program and Family Cooking Program, which helps students explore a new healthy ingredient each month by learning about it, tasting it, and cooking with it to schools in Austin, North Austin, Galewood, Back of the Yards, Canaryville, New City, and Humboldt Park communities. View Purple Asparagus's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Chicago Academy of Sciences
To support the Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across Chicago through self-determined service projects that address environmental sustainability issues in their own communities. View Chicago Academy of Sciences 's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Chicago Youth Centers
To support the Lean and Green Project to provide fresh produce, support urban farming and aquaponics education, and to teach youth and their families how to prepare healthy meals as they develop a lifestyle focused on health, wellness, nutrition, and environmental sustainability. View Chicago Youth Centers's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Erie Elementary Charter School
To support the Health and Wellness Initiative, which increases students' knowledge and understanding of nutrition and healthy eating, as well as their participation in physical activity. They will also offer parent workshops focusing on nutrition and culinary education to make healthy food choices on a limited budget. View Erie Elementary Charter School 's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Institute of Cultural Affairs
To support the Nourish Comm(unity) series to coordinate four cross-cultural events exploring various ways Chicago communities employ sustainability to enhance their community, culture, and connections to address the challenge of siloed efforts and competition within the field of sustainability and climate change.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2017
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative develop its staff team and programs as they use the production of fresh, local food as a tool for rebuilding social and economic infrastructure on Chicago's West Side. View Garfield Park Community Council's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Openlands
To support the Building School Gardens program which works with 58 Chicago Public Schools across the city to use their school garden as an extension of the classroom, impacting more than 38,000 students daily. View Openlands's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
The Kitchen Community
To support school Learning Gardens with Edible Garden and Garden-Based Education Initiatives. These initiatives ensure that school leaders are prepared to utilize the Learning Garden to its fullest extent, broadening their skills in outdoor, experiential education and giving them tools with which to engage students.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Alliance for the Great Lakes
To support the "Educating the Next Generation of Great Lake Stewards in the Chicago Area" program which works to advance Great Lakes stewardship and restoration efforts. View Alliance for the Great Lakes's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Plant Chicago, NFP
To support Closed Loop in the Classroom which is an initiative of Plant Chicago that educates K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. In addition to education, the initiative will increase community participation in the year round farmers market run by Plant Chicago. Plant Chicago operates out of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, a low-income community located on the southside of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support the Change for Good program which seeks to transform Chicago schools and classrooms into environments that ensure children have the opportunity to eat well, be physically active and spend time outdoors. View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
The WasteShed
To support environmental education about “creative reuse” and preventing waste, with a focus on children, teacher support, and school programming.
View The WasteShed's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Peterson Garden Project
To support programs that offer lifelong learning opportunities which give at-risk families, youth, and seniors access to fresh, homegrown food and skills to prepare it. View Peterson Garden Project's Website -
Aspiramos JuntosSpring2017
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
To support expansion and capacity of community gardens and farms in at-risk Chicago neighborhoods. View Advocates for Urban Agriculture's Website -
Aspiramos Juntos Spring2016
Healthy Schools Campaign
To support Change for Good, an effort to transform Chicago schools and classrooms into environments that ensure children have the opportunity to eat well, be physically active and spend time outdoors.
View Healthy Schools Campaign's Website -
Aspiramos Juntos Spring2016
Chicago Horticultural Society (dba Chicago Botanic Garden)
To support Windy City Harvest (WCH), a program that trains at least 170 Chicago youth and adults, including ex-offenders, in sustainable urban agriculture and creates access to 55000 servings of fresh produce for low-income residents in the Chicago region’s food insecure communities, such as North Lawndale, Austin, Pilsen, and Washington Park.
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Aspiramos Juntos Spring2016
Openlands
To support the Building School Gardens program which works with Chicago Public Schools across the city to use their school garden as an extension of their classroom.
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Aspiramos Juntos Spring2016
Peterson Garden Project
To support a community-based food education program to ensure that everyone in their community has access to healthy food that is both affordable and sustainably produced. Education in organic gardening and home cooking classes at PGP’s network of 8 community gardens, a high school garden, and the Community Cooking School, all in neighborhoods with a high percentage of at-risk families, will be part of the program.
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Aspiramos Juntos Spring2016
NeighborSpace
To support the Jardincito Community Stewardship Project which will result in effective stewardship and meaningful engagement at the Jardincito nature play garden in Little Village, the Chicago neighborhood with the least amount of open green space per capita.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Garfield Park Community Council
To support the Garfield Park Community Wellness Initiative, an effort that is using the production of fresh, local food as a means of rebuilding social and economic infrastructure on Chicago's West Side.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Growing Home, Inc.
To support Growing Home’s project “Expanding Local Food in Englewood” which aims to encourage the development of a robust food system and thriving green corridor in Greater Englewood.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
To support the Caminando con Cuentos project which will help bilingual 1st to 5th grade students from Highwood, Round Lake and Waukegan, IL, be physically active in a welcoming, natural environment, become more aware of local nature, and establish a stronger sense of place through story and writing.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Purple Asparagus
To support the Family Cooking Program (FCP) as a supplement to its Delicious Nutritious Adventures (DNA) programming in 14 schools located in the following Chicago communities: Austin, Hermosa, Irving Park, Lincoln Square, Lakeview, West Town, New City (Back of the Yards), Armour Square, Near South Side, Humboldt Park, West Town, Dunning, and Portage Park. .
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry
To support the Surplus Project, an innovative collaboration developed to reduce food waste; increase access to healthy, convenient meals; and reduce food insecurity in our community.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
FamilyFarmed
General Support for FamilyFarmed which is based in Chicago and serves farmers and Good Food communities all over the United States.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To support the 2017 One Earth Film Fest - Building Impact through Community Engagement, Phase 2
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2016
Seven Generations Ahead
To support SGA's comprehensive portfolio of program work and general operations.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Green Community Connections/One Earth Film Festival
To subsidize first-time film events in hard-to-reach communities, and to support the development of an improved system to measure our impact.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC)
To support AGC's unique initiatives, including their food program, community engagement and expanded learning opportunities, and International Baccalaureate Programme.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Universidad Popular
To support the Parent And Children Together (PACT) project which will provide fitness, nutrition and cooking lessons to families in the Pilsen/Little Village Community of Chicago.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Alliance for the Great Lakes
To support Educating the Next Generation of Great Lakes Stewards in Chicago Area which will recruit 5000 plus volunteers to work 60 coastal sites in IL, work with 150 educators in IL on Great Lakes in My World curriculum, link stewardship efforts to expanded on-the-ground projects, as well as local and regional policies, and evaluate the impact on the citizens and youth.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Chicago Arts Orchestra
To support Paisajes Musicales, a music education program bringing young people, especially from low-income families and communities of color, into direct contact with professional classical musicians. .
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Growing Home, Inc.
To reach more individuals by extending their farm stand hours, offering their workshops to new audiences through organizational partnerships, and increasing the amount of their organic produce that reaches low-income individuals.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Seven Generations Ahead
General support for SGA. The desired outcomes include positive changes with respect to core sustainability indicators that we measure including community and institution energy consumption; renewable energy procurement; greenhouse gas emissions; waste diverted from landfill; total waste generated; community and institution potable water consumption; vehicle miles traveled; public transit use; miles of bike lanes; new green infrastructure additions; and other project-specific process measures.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Purple Asparagus
To deliver the Delicious Nutritious Adventures (DNA) programming to an entire grade level during the 2016/17 school year in Chicago Public Schools. Students will gain an interest in whole fruits and vegetables, learn how to make healthy food choices, learn how to talk about food, and increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Their families will receive simple and healthy recipes and be motivated to cook more at home.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry
To support The Surplus Project, an innovative collaboration developed to reduce food waste, increase access to healthy, convenient meals, and reduce food insecurity in our community.
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Aspiramos JuntosFall2015
Plant Chicago, NFP
To educate K-12 students in Chicago about closed loop food systems and healthy, sustainable food practices. The initiative will also increase community participation in the year round farmers market run by Plant Chicago.
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Austin Fresh
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Austin Fresh 2021
Westside Health Authority
For the continued partnership with Forty Acres Fresh Market toward construction of a brick-and-mortar grocery store, specifically for marketing outreach and purchase of equipment once construction on the store is complete.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $98,948
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Austin Fresh 2021
NeighborSpace
For the coordination of activities at all of the Austin-based community gardens and the development of one additional Peace Garden.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $15,351
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Austin Fresh 2021
Bethel New Life
For phase 1 of their Mildred Wiley Wellness Hub at the Beth Ann Campus. The wellness hub will include gardens, a sunroom for senior residents to enjoy and for the processing of vegetables, and nutrition education in partnership with the Illinois Extension Service.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $33,372
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Austin Fresh 2021
Faith in Place
For additional costs associated with rezoning and completing the build-out of a certified kitchen at Greater St. John Church, which will be open to the community for development of commercial food products, cooking classes, and sanitation certification for those seeking employment in the food industry.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $5,577
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Austin Fresh 2021
Beyond Hunger
To train nutrition ambassadors who can provide cooking instruction and nutrition information focused on how to prepare healthy meals with the food available from emergency supply, in a partnership with New Moms.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $4,672
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Austin Fresh 2021
BUILD, Inc.
For the redevelopment of the Iris garden and associated programming, at Michele Clark High School (temporary location) and ultimately as it returns to the location of their completed new facility.
Lumpkin Family Foundation portion: $30,035
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Austin Fresh 2020
BUILD, Inc.
To expand their iris garden and involve more youth in its care, as well as to add some gardening efforts off-site, where youth will work with elders in the community to grow food.
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Austin Fresh 2020
Westside Health Authority
To support collaboration with Forty Acres Fresh Market, an existing for-profit fresh market concept, to move them into a permanent space and provide a full-service produce store in Austin.
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Austin Fresh 2020
NeighborSpace
To provide technical assistance in building capacity among the Austin community's network of gardens with needed infrastructure installations and improvements that will optimize production of fresh, locally grown vegetables and enable each garden to activate plans for community-managed spaces that addresses residents’ needs for safe gathering places and inter-generational community building.
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Austin Fresh 2020
Austin Coming Together
To support coordination efforts on all food-related work in Austin as it pertains to the community’s quality of life plan, including community gardens, grocery stores, food cooperatives, and restaurants. The funding will also help to build the collective, positive narrative of the changes coming to Austin.
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Austin Fresh 2020
Faith in Place
To build out a commercial kitchen at Greater St. John Bible Church where residents can obtain their sanitation certificates and caterers can execute contracts in a legally licensed kitchen.
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Austin Fresh 2020
GAP Community Center
To teach children from the north end of Austin to cook, and to build a bridge between Austin’s Black population and the growing Latino population on the north end of the neighborhood.
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Austin Fresh 2020
By the Hand Club for Kids
To expand their Austin Harvest pop-up market from a 12-week pilot last summer to a year-round program making low-cost produce available in the community and teaching entrepreneurialism to the youth.
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Good Food Policy Program
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Good Food Policy Program2022
Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative
To build a broad, powerful base of organizations across the country from the environmental, independent farmer, sustainable food, labor, civil rights, and animal welfare movements to jointly challenge corporate control of the food system and advocate for better U.S.-based agricultural policies.
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Good Food Policy Program2022
Funders for Regenerative Agriculture
To move towards collaborative action for a network of 60 diverse members, including creating a Communications & Media studio, a grassroots policy strategy at the national and state level, a Financing the Transition strategy, a comprehensive Tracking the Field initiative, and Research series.
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Land, Health, Community
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Land, Health, CommunitySpring2022
Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP)
To conduct community outreach and labor rights education in East Central Illinois to low-income Latinx workers and their households in the cannery, farms, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries.
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North Lawndale Fresh
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North Lawndale Fresh2022
Chicago Horticultural Society
This grant will support the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest (WCH) requests for critical upgrades to the point-of-sale system at its North Lawndale headquarters, the Farm on Ogden (FOO). These upgrades respond to growing demand at FOO, alleviating wait times and improving overall customer experience. This investment and additional efforts by the Farm on Ogden team will steadily enhance and increase North Lawndale customer participation.
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North Lawndale Fresh2022
North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (Fiscal Sponsor, New Covenant Development Corporation)
To support the NLCCC Food Collaborative's expansion of healthy food options for community residents and build the North Lawndale economy through food-related enterprises by expanding a successful food distribution initiative (with Top Box Foods) and supporting Black-owned, local grocery businesses. NLCCC member organizations include Boxing Out Negativity, Firehouse Community Arts Center, Foundation for Homan Square, Lawndale Christian Development Corporation, North Lawndale Employment Network and Sweet Beginnings LLC, and Sinai Chicago, among others.
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North Lawndale Fresh2022
Young Men's Educational Network (YMEN)
This grant will support the North Lawndale Garden to Table Pipeline, which creates a sustainable food system that connects proven community organizations to combine locally grown, nutrient rich food with available food. Prepared meals and food packages will be distributed in community settings and delivered to elderly and isolated.
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