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COMPETITIVE GRANTS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TOTAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: 5,219,500
Advancing Sustainable Development through Community-Based Practices
| TOTAL GRANT | SEARLE FUNDS | |
| Active Transportation Alliance for general operating support |
$37,500 | $37,500 |
| Calumet Collaborative for Calumet Collaborative general operations |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology to support piloting a strategy to convert all affordable housing units in Evanston to a climate resilience and net-zero emissions standard |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning for general operating support |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives, Inc. for general operating support |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Delta Institute for general operating support |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Delta Institute Building Material Reuse Center to support strategy development for Rebuilding Exchange |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Elevate Energy to support its role with the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition in the implementation of the Future Energy Jobs Act |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Environmental Law & Policy Center for general operating support |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Faith in Place to support its role with the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition in the implementation of the Future Energy Jobs Act |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund to support its leadership role in the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization to support its role with the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition in the implementation of the Future Energy Jobs Act |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council for general operating support |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council to support its work with Sam Schwartz Engineering to create bus Transit-Oriented Development recommendations for consideration by city departments and sister agencies |
$25,000 | |
| Openlands for general operating support |
$50,000 | $50,000 |
| The Energy Foundation to support the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition communications and outreach strategy for the implementation of the Future Energy Jobs Act |
$200,000 | $200,000 |
| SUBTOTAL | $1,112,500 | $1,087,500 |
Food:Land:Opportunity Initiative
| TOTAL GRANT | SEARLE FUNDS | |
| Accion Chicago, Inc. to support the introduction a new line of credit product that allows Accion to increase the size of its loans, provide more loans and be more flexible on loan terms for local food businesses |
$500,000 | $500,000 |
| Advocates for Urban Agriculture NFP to support an urban farming certification program and the planning of an urban farmer-led re-granting program |
$100,000 | $100,000 |
| Angelic Organics Learning Center, Inc. to support the Fresh Picks Farmer Alliance which brings business opportunities to the Alliance’s network of three farm-based aggregation hubs, which are groups of neighboring local food farms with products aimed at the Chicago market |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| Angelic Organics Learning Center, Inc. to support capacity building for the organization |
$45,000 | $45,000 |
| Angelic Organics Learning Center, Inc. to support direct marketing resources and training to Routes to Farm alliance farmers |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| Basil’s Harvest to support piloting a small-scale farm-to-hospital purchasing program |
$90,000 | $90,000 |
| Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living to support its Healthy Food Hub |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Chicago Horticultural Society to support Farm On Ogden general operations |
$125,000 | $125,000 |
| Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Micro Finance Group, Inc. to support introducing a financial product for local food businesses with a hybrid loan structure that provides funds for capital expenditures as well as a short-term flexible capital to ensure maintenance of inventory and cash on hand to meet current obligations and propel growth |
$500,000 | $500,000 |
| Delta Institute to support Regenerate Illinois |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| Delta Institute to support studying the potential for Illinois-based grass-fed beef serving the Chicago market |
$177,000 | $177,000 |
| Delta Institute to administer the Artisan Grain Collaborative |
$125,000 | $125,000 |
| FamilyFarmed to support the Good Food Accelerator |
$125,000 | $125,000 |
| FARM Illinois (now Illinois Agri-Food Alliance) for general operating support for FARM Illinois |
$125,000 | $125,000 |
| Fresh Taste for general operating support |
$90,000 | $90,000 |
| Grow Greater Englewood to establish community-driven for-profit farm enterprises in the Englewood Agriculture District |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund to support building a coalition of local food organizations and farm businesses |
$75,000 | $75,000 |
| Liberty Prairie Foundation to support Land Access for local food farmers |
$170,000 | $170,000 |
| McHenry County College to establish an Entrepreneurial Agriculture degree and a partnership with the College’s new Center for Agrarian Learning |
$200,000 | $200,000 |
| NeighborSpace to address land access for food production in southern Cook County |
$100,000 | $100,000 |
| Seven Generations Ahead to support building a market for commercial composting |
$125,000 | $125,000 |
| The Chicago Community Trust for strategy and planning activities for the Food:Land:Opportunity initiative |
$500,000 | $500,000 |
| The Conservation Fund to support incentivizing land trusts to engage in farmland protection in order to address land access challenges of local food farmers |
$110,000 | $110,000 |
| Top Box Foods for the Farm to Neighbor program |
$150,000 | $150,000 |
| SUBTOTAL | $4,107,000 | $4,107,000 |
TOTAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
$5,219,500 | $5,194,500 |