For Immediate Release: $2,943,400 Awarded in Chicago Region Food System Fund Resilience Grants

***Total of $6,917,150 Awarded to 105 Grantees Since June 2020 to Counter COVID-19’s Impact on Chicago Food System ***

(Chicago, IL) The Chicago Region Food System Fund today announced a round of grants to support long-term food system resilience. Forty-eight grantees received a total of $2,943,400 in this round. Since June 2020, the Fund has addressed hunger and business disruption in and around Chicago by bolstering the region’s communities and local food system in response to COVID-19 and other systemic shocks. With the grants announced today, the total support granted by the Fund is $6,917,150 to 105 non-profit organizations. Grant recipients announced today are:

  • Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship, $43,000
  • Advocates for Urban Agriculture, $69,400
  • Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home), $25,000
  • Black Oaks Foundation, $75,000
  • Brave Space Alliance, $50,000
  • Chicago Bread Club, $30,000
  • Chicago Cooperative, $75,000
  • Chicago Horticultural Society, $64,000
  • Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, $100,000
  • Chinese American Service League, $75,000
  • Cooperation Operation, NFP, $30,000
  • DeKalb County Community Gardens, $76,250
  • Eighteenth Street Development Corp, $75,000
  • Elawa Farm Foundation (Bella Ru Catering), $50,000
  • Elawa Farm Foundation (Gourmet Gorilla), $75,000
  • Equity And Transformation (EAT), $20,000
  • Experimental Station, $75,000
  • Family Christian Health Center, $50,000
  • Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, $100,000
  • First Nations Development Institute, $120,000
  • The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, $55,900
  • The GardenWorks Project, $10,000
  • Garfield Park Community Council, $50,000
  • The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus, $63,600
  • Global Garden Refugee Training Farm, $12,500
  • Grace Housing Complex, $35,000
  • Henry Williams Foundation of Love, $110,000
  • Illinois Stewardship Alliance, $75,000
  • Inner City Muslim Action Network, $50,000
  • Just Roots Chicago, $56,000
  • Kells Park Community Council, $3,000
  • Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, $75,000
  • Michigan Food and Farming Systems, $75,000
  • Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, $91,000
  • New Eclipse Community Alliance, $50,000
  • Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening, $20,000
  • NWI Food Council Inc., $75,000
  • Plant Chicago, $39,500
  • Proviso Partners for Health, $75,000
  • Public Narrative, $70,500
  • Puerto Rican Cultural Center, $75,000
  • Seven Generations Ahead, $75,000
  • St Sabina Church (Stein Learning Gardens), $75,000
  • Star Farm Chicago, $75,000
  • Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, $75,000
  • Street Vendors Association of Chicago, $75,000
  • Warehouse Workers for Justice, $100,000
  • WestCare Illinois, Inc., $23,750

Project descriptions follow at the end of this release.

Grants awarded in this round focus on long-term work toward a resilient, racially and economically just local food system better able to cope with systemic shocks like COVID-19. The Chicago Region Food System Fund focused on hunger and business disruption in the local food system—from production to processing to distribution to consumption—in an area approximately 200 miles from Chicago (about a day’s drive to/from the city). Priority was given to organizations producing food in, and supplying food to, communities of color. Fresh Taste, fiscally sponsored by Forefront, manages the Fund. 

“The strain that COVID-19 placed on Chicago’s local food system—and the many urban, suburban, exurban, and rural communities that comprise it—is grave,” said Karen Lehman, Director, Fresh Taste, and Chicago Region Food System Fund manager. “The Fund received far more strong applications than it could support, indicating both great need and strong community capacity to meet it. We hope that this round of funding bolsters the resilience of the system, particularly with an eye toward equity, and that other funders will join us in supporting this work.”

Major funders of the Chicago Region Local Food System Fund are Amanda Hanley Climate Fund, The Builders Initiative, Food:Land:Opportunity (funded through the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust), Fresh Taste, James F. Beré Family Fund, Little Owl Foundation, The Lumpkin Family Foundation, Margot L. Pritzker Fund, Walder Foundation, and Walter S. Mander Foundation. Visit ChicagoRegionFoodFund.org for more information.

Fresh Taste is a collaborative funder initiative committed to racial and economic equity and focused on changing the way food is grown, processed, distributed, and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities. Fresh Taste’s vision is that residents of the Chicago region eat local fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meat, and dairy products produced through regenerative agriculture and brought to tables by local businesses. 

Forefront is Illinois’ membership association for nonprofits, grantmakers, advisors, public agencies, and their allies. They provide education, advocacy, thought leadership, and facilitate collective action around issues that are important to its members and to the sector. Forefront oversees and is responsible for all financial and legal activities of Fresh Taste.

Grantee Project Descriptions

Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship $43,000
Adelante Center’s multi-dimensional, multi-year Lake County Food Hub project will create an integral food access point in the North Chicago, East Waukegan, and Zion communities.

Advocates for Urban Agriculture $69,400
Advocates for Urban Agriculture is reinvigorating its Ward Ambassador program by equipping community leaders with the training, materials, and funding to build grassroots, intersectional relationships and to advance urban agricultural initiatives within Chicago’s 50 wards.

Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home) $25,000
Apna Ghar is responding to food insecurity, particularly in areas near their transitional housing programs. They are building stronger connections between public, private, and nonprofit sectors to increase food availability through their Food Justice Initiative.

Black Oaks Foundation $75,000
The Black Oaks Center is building community wealth through an urban, suburban, and rural model to restore local food system development and be a significant contributor to the Chicago foodshed.

Brave Space Alliance $50,000
Brave Space Alliance is building an innovative and resilient food systems network in Black and Latinx communities in the South and West Sides through four food pantry locations and a donation/purchasing network of local BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) owned small businesses.

Chicago Bread Club $30,000
The 2120 Expansion, a mutual aid and aggregation hub in South Shore, is a collaboration between Chicago Bread Club and Fresher Together. 2120 is used to pack the BIPOC Harvest Bag and Community Grain Shares, and to support BIPOC farmers’ storage/workspace needs.

Chicago Cooperative $75,000
Chicago Market seeks to open a permanent co-op grocery store to connect local farmers with thousands of new consumers and facilitate food system resiliency by shortening food supply chains and strengthening the local food economy.

Chicago Horticultural Society $64,000
Windy City Harvest is the Chicago Botanic Garden’s urban agriculture education and jobs-training initiative to help build a local food system, healthier communities, and a greener economy. Windy City Harvest enhances services to its allotment gardeners and incubator farmers, all of whom are BIPOC Chicago residents, with work focused on food insecure communities in the South and West sides, including Rodeo Farm.

Chicago Workers’ Collaborative $100,000
Chicago Workers’ Collaborative is implementing the Essential Worker Protection Program, which includes protections and vaccine prioritization to keep meatpacking and food processing workplaces safe from COVID-19, reducing the illness and death of Black and Brown low-wage temporary workers.

Chinese American Service League $75,000
Chinese American Service League is building a new kitchen through a private/non-profit partnership to expand its capacity to provide meals to seniors by enlarging its culinary training program (CTP) and offering paid internships to CTP graduates.

Cooperation Operation, NFP $30,000
Cooperation Operation is expanding its site to build a demonstration farm and learning space with urban farmers and community members. 

DeKalb County Community Gardens $76,250
DeKalb County Community Gardens is creating a Northern Illinois Food Systems Network, an Illinois Food Systems Collaborative, and a regional Community Food and Education Center.

Eighteenth Street Development Corp $75,000
Eighteenth Street Development Corp is building on its existing food relief work and that of its partners to create a food donation hub, moving families from surviving to thriving—while making fresh produce more accessible—and educating them on preparing healthy meals.

Elawa Farm Foundation (Bella Ru Catering) $50,000
Elawa Farm Foundation will contract with Bella Ru Catering to distribute local farm products to individuals and families in Lake County who are facing food insecurity, as well as provide direct support to local farms by purchasing their products for distribution.

Elawa Farm Foundation (Gourmet Gorilla) $75,000
Elawa Farm Foundation will contract with Gourmet Gorilla to create a platform for community co-ops, food hubs, and small food retailers to provide food to SNAP eligible customers currently left out of other home delivery services through online delivery. 

Equity And Transformation (EAT) $20,000
In response to COVID-19, Equity And Transformation has organized a mutual aid campaign that is grounded in a community care framework, with the goal of getting resources directly into the hands of the people who need them most.

Experimental Station $75,000
Experimental Station will expand Link Match to corner and grocery stores in or near several of Chicago’s most challenged neighborhoods. They aim to provide affordable access for Link clients to fruits and vegetables, while supporting local farming.

Family Christian Health Center $50,000
Family Christian Health Center aims to increase urban agriculture development and reduce food and economic insecurity in South Suburban Cook County by opening a Fresh Food Market and Café and establishing a Community Coalition to spark and cultivate a thriving food ecosystem.

Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) $100,000
Through community outreach and education, advocacy, and litigation to change public policy, the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project Food Fund will support low-income undocumented Latinx workers and their households in these industries: cannery, farms, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants and snow plowing.

First Nations Development Institute $120,000
First Nations will support five tribes or Native American nonprofit organizations in Michigan and Wisconsin that are conducting innovative efforts to reclaim control of their community food systems for economic, social, and cultural benefit as they seek to enter the Chicago marketplace.

The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago $55,900
The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago is restoring a community greenhouse in Woodlawn that will increase capacity to extend the local growing season and provide food education and relevant training year-round.

The GardenWorks Project $10,000
The GardenWorks Project will improve equitable access of fresh food options for food insecure households in Western Chicagoland through the installation of community gardens and by increasing community engagement through education and capacity building.

Garfield Park Community Council $50,000
Garfield Park Community Council will build the capacity of its Wellness Initiative to support community residents to start and maintain growing spaces and to share food and support local food businesses through the Garfield Park Garden Network and Neighborhood Market.

The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus $63,600
The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus will increase capacity to grow food from eight months to twelve by expanding an existing hydroponics demo model to a year-round hydroponic system, increasing yield for meal service and community partners, while providing workforce development to 125 young people.

Global Garden Refugee Training Farm $12,500
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm provides 96 families with garden plots and five farm entrepreneurs with land, training, and logistical support. They will build a vegetable wash station to reduce post-harvest food waste, help farmers obtain GAP certification to sell to more local businesses and agencies, and put a roof over the area for meetings and events.

Grace Housing Complex $35,000
Grace Housing Complex is committed to addressing health and food disparity for residents of the South Deering, Roseland, and Englewood communities. Their “You Got The Juice” program helps promote health and wellness by bringing high quality, nutrient-rich produce into food deserts. 

Henry Williams Foundation of Love $110,000
Henry Williams Foundation of Love has created a new innovation program, Growcery Incubation Focus, that will incubate ten new food security ideas, each with an intended impact of 5,000 people across Metropolitan Chicago.

Illinois Stewardship Alliance $75,000
Illinois Stewardship Alliance will work in coalition with HEAL Food Alliance and the Chicago Food Policy Action Council to pass the first ever statewide Good Food Purchasing Policy and build a powerful multi-sectoral, diverse, and statewide Food Justice Coalition.

Inner City Muslim Action Network $50,000
Inner City Muslim Action Network will establish a food pantry and food box program in Englewood as a part of their Go Green on Racine initiative that, in concert with their Fresh Market, will serve as a food hub in the community.

Just Roots Chicago $56,000
Just Roots Chicago and Grace UCC, in collaboration with Good Vibes Farm, will establish a two-acre community farm. Community members will benefit from growing and having access to locally grown food and engaging in hands-on educational programming.

Kells Park Community Council $3,000
Kells Park Community Council runs a community market in West Humboldt Park making farm-fresh, sustainably grown fruits and vegetables available to the neighborhood.  

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization $75,000
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization will expand Proyecto Mi Villita, which builds upon Farm.Food.Familias by investing in a local urban farm and planning for a commercial kitchen that will build a resilient food system in Little Village.

Michigan Food and Farming Systems $75,000
This project will build resiliency of small-scale Latinx agricultural producers in Southwest Michigan through connections to the Chicago market, social capital development, and training on production, marketing, distribution, processing, and technology.

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting $91,000
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting is dedicated to investigative and enterprise reporting of agribusiness and related issues, such as labor, food supply, policy, climate change and environment.

New Eclipse Community Alliance $50,000
New Eclipse Community Alliance has started building a community garden and introducing residents to urban farming. A new monthly farmer’s market will give residents an opportunity to sell the produce they grow and foster healthy local food systems in the community.

Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening $20,000
Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening will purchase a van to assist with food distribution in Little Village.

NWI Food Council Inc. $75,000
NWI Food Council will address critical hard infrastructure gaps in northwest Indiana through a hybrid food hub model with strategically placed refrigerated containers to provide an innovative, flexible, and scalable solution to the issue of cold chain storage.

Plant Chicago $39,500
Plant Chicago will build on the success of the Link Produce Box program by offering additional opportunities to support local food systems through education, nutrition, and food scrap collection on the southwest side of Chicago.

Proviso Partners for Health $75,000
Proviso Partners for Health will develop and pilot Real Foods Collective, a sustainable community food anchor promoting food system resilience by supporting Black and Brown entrepreneurs and improving food access.

Public Narrative $70,500
Public Narrative aims to build resilience in Chicago’s food systems by training youth advocates and connecting them to resources to impact policy and the development of a more equitable and sustainable food system in communities of color.

Puerto Rican Cultural Center $75,000
Puerto Rican Cultural Center will instruct students on the techniques of indoor hydroponic gardening to utilize locally grown produce for community distribution, fundraising, and awareness.

Seven Generations Ahead $75,000
The Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition, Wasted Food Action Alliance, and Seven Generations Ahead will develop a Chicago Region Food Rescue Hub to provide a coordinated equitable response to food rescue through shared communication and logistics.

St Sabina Church $75,000
St Sabina Church will launch the “Nurture Life” community farm and food aggregation and distribution hub on the campus of the historic St. Sabina church in Auburn-Gresham as part of the Stein Learning Gardens initiative.

Star Farm Chicago $75,000
The Star Farm Fresh Market, Shared Kitchen, and Community Dining Room will provide fresh produce, educational and employment opportunities, and support for local food entrepreneurs and growers through infrastructure needs, business development, and production space.

Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church $75,000
The Historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church will collaborate with other organizations in North Lawndale to increase the capacity of people to produce and access nutritious and culturally acceptable food.

Street Vendors Association of Chicago $75,000
In March 2021, the Chicago Street Vendors Association purchased the shared kitchen space that they had rented for five years in the North Lawndale neighborhood. They intend to purchase the two lots adjacent to the building to improve capacity and collaborate with other food producers on the South and West sides.

Warehouse Workers for Justice $100,000
Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) will deepen and expand their organizing in support of food warehouse workers. As well as advocating for priority COVID-19 vaccine access, WWJ is building worker power to demand workplace safety, job security, family-supporting wages, an end to discrimination, and other essential elements of a strong and resilient food system in the wake of the pandemic.

WestCare Illinois, Inc. $23,750
WestCare Illinois will connect young people to sustainable agriculture skills and tools with the BIPOC-led New Life Baptist Church of Chicago, Grand Boulevard Prevention Services, Olive Harvey Middle School, and local farms.

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$2,943,400 OTORGADO EN SUBVENCIONES DE RESILIENCIA DEL FONDO DEL SISTEMA ALIMENTARIO REGIONAL DE CHICAGO

***Total de $6,917,150 Otorgado a 105 Beneficiarios desde junio de 2020 para Contrarrestar el Impacto de COVID-19 en el Sistema Alimentario de Chicago ***

(Chicago, IL – 19 de abril de 2021) El Fondo del Sistema Alimentario Regional de Chicago anunció hoy una ronda de subvenciones para apoyar la resiliencia del sistema alimentario a largo plazo. Cuarenta y ocho beneficiarios recibieron un total de $2,943,400 en esta ronda. Desde junio de 2020, el Fondo ha abordado el hambre y la interrupción de los negocios en Chicago y sus alrededores reforzando las comunidades de la región y el sistema alimentario local en respuesta al COVID-19 y otros choques sistémicos. Con las subvenciones anunciadas hoy, el apoyo total otorgado por el Fondo es $6,917,150 a 105 organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Los beneficiarios de las subvenciones anunciados hoy son:

  • Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship, $43,000
  • Advocates for Urban Agriculture, $69,400
  • Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home), $25,000
  • Black Oaks Foundation, $75,000
  • Brave Space Alliance, $50,000
  • Chicago Bread Club, $30,000
  • Chicago Cooperative, $75,000
  • Chicago Horticultural Society, $64,000
  • Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, $100,000
  • Chinese American Service League, $75,000
  • Cooperation Operation, NFP, $30,000
  • DeKalb County Community Gardens, $76,250
  • Eighteenth Street Development Corp, $75,000
  • Elawa Farm Foundation (Bella Ru Catering), $50,000
  • Elawa Farm Foundation (Gourmet Gorilla), $75,000
  • Equity And Transformation (EAT), $20,000
  • Experimental Station, $75,000
  • Family Christian Health Center, $50,000
  • Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project, $100,000
  • First Nations Development Institute, $120,000
  • The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, $55,900
  • The GardenWorks Project, $10,000
  • Garfield Park Community Council, $50,000
  • The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus, $63,600
  • Global Garden RefugeeTraining Farm, $12,500
  • Grace Housing Complex, $35,000
  • Henry Williams Foundation of Love, $110,000
  • Illinois Stewardship Alliance, $75,000
  • Inner City Muslim Action Network, $50,000
  • Just Roots Chicago, $56,000
  • Kells Park Community Council, $3,000
  • Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, $75,000
  • Michigan Food and Farming Systems, $75,000
  • Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, $91,000
  • New Eclipse Community Alliance, $50,000
  • Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening, $20,000
  • NWI Food Council Inc., $75,000
  • Plant Chicago, $39,500
  • Proviso Partners for Health, $75,000
  • Public Narrative, $70,500
  • Puerto Rican Cultural Center, $75,000
  • Seven Generations Ahead, $75,000
  • St Sabina Church (Stein Learning Gardens), $75,000
  • Star Farm Chicago, $75,000
  • Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, $75,000
  • Street Vendors Association of Chicago, $75,000
  • Warehouse Workers for Justice, $100,000
  • WestCare Illinois, Inc., $23,750

Las descripciones de los proyectos siguen al final de este comunicado.

Las subvenciones otorgadas en esta ronda se centran en el trabajo a largo plazo hacia un sistema alimentario local resistente, racial y económicamente justo que sea más capaz de hacer frente a los impactos sistémicos como el COVID-19. El Fondo del Sistema Alimentario Regional de Chicago se enfoca en el hambre y la interrupción del negocio en el sistema alimentario local, desde la producción hasta el procesamiento, la distribución y el consumo, en un área aproximadamente a 200 millas de Chicago (aproximadamente un día en automóvil hasta / de la ciudad). Se dará prioridad a las organizaciones que producen alimentos y suministran alimentos a las comunidades de color. Fresh Taste, patrocinado fiscalmente por Forefront, administra el Fondo.

“La tensión que COVID-19 ejerció sobre el sistema alimentario local de Chicago, y las diversas comunidades urbanas, suburbanas, exurbanas y rurales que lo componen, es grave,” dijo Karen Lehman, directora de Fresh Taste y gerente del Fondo del Sistema Alimentario Regional de Chicago. “El Fondo recibió muchas más solicitudes meritorias de las que podía apoyar, lo que indica tanto una gran necesidad como una sólida capacidad comunitaria para satisfacerla. Esperamos que esta ronda de financiamiento refuerce la resiliencia del sistema, particularmente con miras a la equidad, y que otros donantes se unan con nosotros para apoyar este trabajo.”

Donantes Principales del Fondo del Sistema Alimentario Regional de Chicago Amanda Hanley Climate Fund, The Builders Initiative, Food:Land:Opportunity (funded through the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust), Fresh Taste, James F. Beré Family Fund, Little Owl Foundation, The Lumpkin Family Foundation, Margot L. Pritzker Fund, Walder Foundation, y Walter S. Mander Foundation. El Fondo agradece cualquier apoyo adicional. Visite ChicagoRegionFoodFund.org para más información.

Fresh Taste es una iniciativa colaborativa filantrópica comprometida a la equidad racial y económica y centrada en cambiar la forma en que se cultivan, procesan, distribuyen y consumen los alimentos en la región de Chicago para promover una tierra saludable, personas saludables, y comunidades saludables. La visión de Fresh Taste es que los residentes de la región de Chicago coman frutas, verduras, granos integrales, carne y productos lácteos locales producidos a través de la agricultura regenerativa y llevados a las mesas por las empresas locales.

Forefront es la asociación de miembros de Illinois para organizaciones sin fines de lucro, donantes, asesores, agencias públicas y sus aliados. Proporcionan educación, abogacía, liderazgo de pensamiento, y facilitan las acciones colectivas en torno a temas que son importantes para sus miembros y para el sector. Forefront supervisa y es responsable por todas las actividades financieras y legales de Fresh Taste.

Proyectos de los Recipiendarios

Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship $43,000
El proyecto multidimensional y de varios años de Lake County Food Hub de Adelante Center creará un punto integral de acceso a alimentos en las comunidades de North Chicago, East Waukegan y Zion.

Advocates for Urban Agriculture $69,400
Advocates for Urban Agriculture está revitalizando su programa Ward Ambassador al equipar a los líderes de la comunidad con la capacitación, los materiales y los fondos para construir relaciones de base e interseccionales para promover iniciativas de agricultura urbana dentro de los 50 distritos de Chicago.

Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home) $25,000
Apna Ghar está respondiendo a la inseguridad alimentaria, particularmente en áreas cercanas a sus programas de vivienda de transición. Están construyendo conexiones más sólidas entre los sectores público, privado y sin fines de lucro para aumentar la disponibilidad de alimentos a través de su Iniciativa de Justicia Alimentaria.

Black Oaks Foundation $75,000
Black Oaks Center está construyendo riqueza comunitaria a través de un modelo urbano, suburbano y rural para restaurar el desarrollo del sistema alimentario local y ser un contribuyente significativo a la cuenca alimentaria de Chicago.

Brave Space Alliance $50,000
Brave Space Alliance está construyendo una red innovador y resiliente de sistemas alimentarios en comunidades negras y latinx en los lados Sur y Oeste a través de cuatro ubicaciones de despensa de alimentos y una red de donaciones / compras de pequeñas empresas locales de BIPOC (gente negra, indígena y de color).

Chicago Bread Club $30,000
La 2120 Expansion, un centro de ayuda mutua y agregación en South Shore, es una colaboración entre Chicago Bread Club y Fresher Together. 2120 se utiliza para empacar la Bolsa de Cosecha BIPOC y las Acciones de Grano Comunitarias, y para apoyar las necesidades de almacenamiento / espacio de trabajo de los agricultores BIPOC.

Chicago Cooperative $75,000
Chicago Market busca abrir una tienda cooperativa permanente de comestibles para conectar a los agricultores locales con miles de nuevos consumidores y facilitar la resiliencia del sistema alimentario al acortar las cadenas de suministro de alimentos y fortalecer la economía alimentaria local.

Chicago Horticultural Society $64,000
Windy City Harvest es la iniciativa de educación y capacitación laboral en agricultura urbana del Jardín Botánico de Chicago para ayudar a construir un sistema alimentario local, comunidades más saludables y una economía más verde. Windy City Harvest mejora los servicios para sus jardineros de parcelas y agricultores de incubadoras, todos los cuales son residentes de comunidades BIPOC en Chicago, con un trabajo centrado en las comunidades con inseguridad alimentaria en los lados Sur y Oeste, incluida Rodeo Farm.

Chicago Workers’ Collaborative $100,000
Chicago Workers’ Collaborative está implementando el Programa de Protección Esencial para los Trabajadores, que incluye protecciones y priorización de vacunas para mantener los lugares de trabajo de empacado de carne y procesamiento de alimentos a salvo del COVID-19, reduciendo la enfermedad y muerte de los trabajadores temporales Afroamcericanos y LatinX de bajos salarios.

Chinese American Service League $75,000
Chinese American Service League está construyendo una nueva cocina a través de una asociación privada / sin fines de lucro para expandir su capacidad de proporcionar comidas a las personas mayores al ampliar su programa de capacitación culinaria (CTP) y ofrecer pasantías pagadas a los graduados de CTP.

Cooperation Operation, NFP $30,000
Cooperation Operation está ampliando su sitio para construir una granja de demostración y un espacio de aprendizaje con agricultores urbanos y miembros de la comunidad.

DeKalb County Community Gardens $76,250
DeKalb County Community Gardens está creando una Red de Sistemas Alimentarios del Norte de Illinois, una Colaboración de Sistemas Alimentarios de Illinois y un Centro Regional de Educación y Alimentos de la Comunidad.

Eighteenth Street Development Corp $75,000
Eighteenth Street Development Corp está construyendo sobre la base de su trabajo de ayuda alimentaria existente y el de sus socios para crear un centro de donación de alimentos, haciendo que las familias sobrevivan y prosperen–mientras hacen que los productos frescos sean más accesibles–y los educa sobre cómo preparar comidas saludables.

Elawa Farm Foundation (Bella Ru Catering) $50,000
Elawa Farm Foundation contratará a Bella Ru Catering para distribuir productos agrícolas locales a personas y familias en el condado de Lake que enfrentan inseguridad alimentaria, así como para brindar apoyo directo a las granjas locales mediante la compra de sus productos para su distribución.

Elawa Farm Foundation (Gourmet Gorilla) $75,000
Elawa Farm Foundation contratará a Gourmet Gorilla para crear una plataforma para que las cooperativas comunitarias, los centros de alimentos y los pequeños minoristas de alimentos proporcionen alimentos a los clientes elegibles de SNAP que actualmente no tienen otros servicios de entrega a domicilio a través de la entrega en línea.

Equity And Transformation (EAT) $20,000
En respuesta a COVID-19, Equity And Transformation ha organizado una campaña de ayuda mutua que se basa en un marco de atención comunitaria, con el objetivo de llevar los recursos directamente a las manos de las personas que más los necesitan.

Experimental Station $75,000
Experimental Station expandirá Link Match a las tiendas de comestibles y a las bodegas en o cerca de varios de los vecindarios más desafiados de Chicago. Su objetivo es proporcionar un acceso asequible para los clientes de Link a frutas y verduras, mientras que apoyan la agricultura local.

Family Christian Health Center $50,000
Family Christian Health Center tiene como objetivo aumentar el desarrollo de la agricultura urbana y reducir la inseguridad alimentaria y económica en el condado de Cook en los suburbios del sur mediante la apertura de Fresh Food Market y Café y el establecimiento de una Community Coalition para generar y cultivar un ecosistema alimentario próspero.

Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) $100,000
A través del alcance comunitario y la educación, la promoción y el litigio para cambiar las políticas públicas, Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project Food Fund apoyará a los trabajadores Latinx indocumentados de bajos ingresos y sus hogares en estas industrias: fábricas de conservas, granjas, invernaderos, jardinería, carne, viveros, empacadora, avícola, restaurantes y quitanieves.

First Nations Development Institute $120,000
First Nations apoyará a cinco tribus u organizaciones sin fines de lucro Indígenas en Michigan y Wisconsin que están realizando esfuerzos innovadores para recuperar el control de sus sistemas alimentarios comunitarios para beneficio económico, social y cultural mientras buscan ingresar a los mercados de Chicago.

The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago $55,900
The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago está restaurando un invernadero comunitario en Woodlawn que aumentará la capacidad para extender la temporada de cultivo local y brindar educación alimentaria y capacitación relevante durante todo el año.

The GardenWorks Project $10,000
El GardenWorks Project mejorará el acceso equitativo a las opciones de alimentos frescos para los hogares con inseguridad alimentaria en el Oeste de Chicago mediante la instalación de jardines comunitarios y aumentando la participación de la comunidad a través de la educación y el desarrollo de capacidad.

Garfield Park Community Council $50,000
Garfield Park Community Council desarrollará la capacidad de su Iniciativa de Bienestar para ayudar a los residentes de la comunidad a iniciar y mantener espacios de cultivo, compartir alimentos y apoyar a las empresas de alimentos locales a través de Garfield Park Garden Network y Neighborhood Market.

The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus $63,600
The Gary Comer Youth Center on the Comer Education Campus aumentará la capacidad para cultivar alimentos de ocho meses a doce al expandir un modelo de demostración de hidroponía existente a un sistema hidropónico durante todo el año, aumentando el rendimiento para el servicio de comidas y los socios comunitarios, al tiempo que brinda desarrollo de la fuerza laboral a 125 jóvenes.

Global Garden Refugee Training Farm $12,500
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm proporciona capacitación y apoyo logístico a 96 familias con parcelas de jardín y cinco empresarios agrícolas con tierra. Construirán una estación de lavado de verduras para reducir el desperdicio de alimentos después de la cosecha, ayudarán a los agricultores a obtener la certificación GAP para vender a más empresas y agencias locales, y colocarán un techo sobre el área para reuniones y eventos.

Grace Housing Complex $35,000
Grace Housing Complex se compromete a abordar la disparidad alimentaria y de salud para los residentes de las comunidades de South Deering, Roseland y Englewood. Su programa “You Got The Juice” ayuda a promover la salud y el bienestar al llevar productos de alta calidad ricos en nutrientes a las comunidades con desinversión alimentaria.

Henry Williams Foundation of Love $110,000
Henry Williams Foundation of Love ha creado un nuevo programa de innovación, Growcery Incubation Focus, que incubará diez nuevas ideas de seguridad alimentaria, cada una con un impacto previsto de 5.000 personas en el área metropolitana de Chicago.

Illinois Stewardship Alliance $75,000
Illinois Stewardship Alliance trabajará en coalición con HEAL Food Alliance y el Chicago Food Policy Action Council para aprobar la primera Política de Buena Compra de Alimentos a nivel estatal y construir una poderosa Coalición de Justicia Alimentaria multisectorial, diversa y a nivel estatal.

Inner City Muslim Action Network $50,000
Inner City Muslim Action Network establecerá una despensa de alimentos y un programa de cajas de alimentos en Englewood como parte de su iniciativa Go Green on Racine que, en conjunto con su Fresh Market, servirá como un centro de alimentos en la comunidad.

Just Roots Chicago $56,000
Just Roots Chicago y Grace UCC, en colaboración con Good Vibes Farm, establecerá una granja comunitaria de dos acres. Los miembros de la comunidad se beneficiarán de sembrar y tener acceso a alimentos cultivados localmente y participar en programas educativos prácticos.

Kells Park Community Council $3,000
Kells Park Community Council administra un mercado comunitario en West Humboldt Park que pone a disposición del vecindario frutas y verduras frescas y cultivadas de manera sostenible.

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization $75,000
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization ampliará el Proyecto Mi Villita, que se basa en Farm.Food.Familias, invirtiendo en una granja urbana local y planificando una cocina comercial que construirá un sistema alimentario resistente en Little Village.

Michigan Food and Farming Systems $75,000
Este proyecto fortalecerá la capacidad de resiliencia de los productores agrícolas Latinx a pequeña escala en el suroeste de Michigan a través de conexiones con el mercado de Chicago, desarrollo de capital social y capacitación en producción, mercadeo, distribución, procesamiento y tecnología.

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting $91,000
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting se dedica a la elaboración de informes e investigación sobre agronegocios y cuestiones relacionadas, como el trabajo, el suministro de alimentos, las políticas, el cambio climático y el medio ambiente.

New Eclipse Community Alliance $50,000
New Eclipse Community Alliance ha comenzado a construir un jardín comunitario y a presentar a los residentes el valor y práctica de la agricultura urbana. Un nuevo mercado de agricultores mensual brindará a los residentes la oportunidad de vender los productos que cultivan y fomentar sistemas alimentarios locales saludables en la comunidad.

Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening $20,000
Un Nuevo Despertar-A New Awakening comprará una camioneta para ayudar con la distribución de alimentos en Little Village.

NWI Food Council Inc. $75,000
NWI Food Council abordará las brechas críticas de infraestructura dura en el noroeste de Indiana a través de un modelo de centro de alimentos híbrido con contenedores refrigerados colocados estratégicamente para brindar una solución innovadora, flexible y escalable al problema del almacenamiento en cadena de frío.

Plant Chicago $39,500
Plant Chicago va a expandir el éxito del programa Link Produce Box al ofrecer oportunidades adicionales para apoyar los sistemas alimentarios locales a través de la educación, la nutrición y la recolección de desechos de alimentos en el lado suroeste de Chicago.

Proviso Partners for Health $75,000
Proviso Partners for Health desarrollará y pondrá a prueba Real Foods Collective, un ancla alimentaria comunitaria sostenible que promueve la resiliencia del sistema alimentario al apoyar a los empresarios Afroamericanes y Latinx y mejorar el acceso a los alimentos.

Public Narrative $70,500
Public Narrative tiene como objetivo desarrollar la resiliencia en los sistemas alimentarios de Chicago capacitando a los defensores de los jóvenes y conectándolos con recursos para influir en las políticas y el desarrollo de un sistema alimentario más equitativo y sostenible en las comunidades BIPOC.

Puerto Rican Cultural Center $75,000
Puerto Rican Cultural Center instruirá a los estudiantes sobre las técnicas de jardinería hidropónica de interior para utilizar productos cultivados localmente para la distribución comunitaria, la recaudación de fondos y la concientización.

Seven Generations Ahead $75,000
Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition, Wasted Food Action Alliance, y Seven Generations Ahead desarrollarán un Centro de Rescate de Alimentos de la Región de Chicago para brindar una respuesta equitativa coordinada al rescate de alimentos a través de comunicaciones y logística compartidas.

St Sabina Church $75,000
St Sabina Church lanzará la granja comunitaria y centro de agregación y distribución de alimentos “Nurture Life” en el campus de la histórica iglesia St. Sabina en Auburn-Gresham como parte de la iniciativa Stein Learning Gardens.

Star Farm Chicago $75,000
Star Farm Fresh Market, Shared Kitchen y Community Dining Room brindarán productos frescos, oportunidades educativas y de empleo, y apoyo a los empresarios y productores de alimentos locales a través de infraestructura, el desarrollo comercial y el espacio de producción.

Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church $75,000
El Historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church colaborará con otras organizaciones en North Lawndale para aumentar la capacidad de las personas para producir y acceder a alimentos nutritivos y culturalmente relevantes.

Street Vendors Association of Chicago $75,000
En marzo de 2021, la Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes de Chicago compró el espacio de cocina compartida que habían alquilado durante cinco años en el vecindario de North Lawndale. Tienen la intención de comprar los dos lotes adyacentes al edificio para mejorar la capacidad y colaborar con otros productores de alimentos en los lados sur y oeste.

Warehouse Workers for Justice $100,000
Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) profundizará y ampliará su organización en apoyo de los trabajadores de los almacenes de alimentos. Además de abogar por el acceso prioritario a la vacuna COVID-19, WWJ está construyendo el poder de los trabajadores para exigir seguridad en el lugar de trabajo, seguridad laboral, salarios que apoyen a la familia, el fin de la discriminación y otros elementos esenciales de un sistema alimentario fuerte y resistente mas alla de la pandemia.

WestCare Illinois, Inc. $23,750
WestCare Illinois conectará a los jóvenes con habilidades y herramientas de agricultura sostenible con New Life Baptist Church of Chicago, Grand Boulevard Prevention Services, Olive Harvey Middle School, y las granjas locales.

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