Grantees

Dion’s Chicago Dream focuses on identifying and combating food insecurity throughout the Chicagoland area, using nutritional philanthropy as a catalyst to build community and transform lives.

Schoolyard Roots cultivates curiosity and connections through hands-on learning gardens. We engage communities with food and nature to inspire, delight, and bring classroom concepts to life. We grow vegetables, fruits, and flowers in school gardens and teach students how to prepare healthful, delicious recipes. By providing our students with engaging, hands-on learning and nutrition education, our program helps them to achieve academic success and live a healthier life.

CalCAN is a statewide coalition that advances state and federal policy to realize the powerful climate solutions offered by sustainable and organic agriculture. We seek a widespread transition to sustainable and organic agricultural systems that are increasingly resilient and environmentally sound, provide public health and climate benefits, protect our natural resources, sustain food security and economically vibrant agricultural communities, and maintain our finite agricultural lands.

EATS stands for Eat Awesome Things and began in 2013 concerned with the goal of removing the 15 most harmful ingredients from school lunch. Fast forward to where scratch-made lunch has now become a reality in all seven of the school district’s elementary and middle schools. With school lunch now on a healthier path, EATS remains dedicated to its mission of empowering and growing healthy communities with fun, food, and nutrition advocacy.

The Eco-Justice Center began in 2004 with a mission of environmental education and its vision is sowing community for a fertile future. Our 15-acre farm is open to the public and serves the Southeastern Wisconsin community as a model of environmental stewardship and sustainability. We protect and provide this unique setting which supports our leadership and educational programming focused on justice, healing, and right relationships among all Creation. We believe systemic change comes from our interactions and engagement with the youth who attend our field trips, summer camps, and school and work programs. The Eco-Justice Center provides opportunities for youth to participate in hands-on garden-based food and nutrition lessons that connect them to the earth, their environment, and how their food is grown and distributed. Farm produce is sold locally at Racine area farmers markets and donated to local food pantries.

Ecosystems of Care works to build stronger and more just systems of food, information, and resources, to forge connections across neighbors, and generate community power.

Market Box, the core project of Ecosystems of Care, bulk-buys food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago. In supporting our local food ecosystem and our communities, we seek to reimagine how neighbors can act with accountability towards each other and generate community power in the face of government neglect.

The Eco-Justice Center began in 2004 with a mission of environmental education and its vision is sowing community for a fertile future. Our 15-acre farm is open to the public and serves the Southeastern Wisconsin community as a model of environmental stewardship and sustainability. We protect and provide this unique setting which supports our leadership and educational programming focused on justice, healing, and right relationships among all Creation. We believe systemic change comes from our interactions and engagement with the youth who attend our field trips, summer camps, and school and work programs. The Eco-Justice Center provides opportunities for youth to participate in hands-on garden-based food and nutrition lessons that connect them to the earth, their environment, and how their food is grown and distributed. Farm produce is sold locally at Racine area farmers markets and donated to local food pantries.

We are a community of people committed to creating peer-led, community-funded, transformational change. Our work aims to build immediate and increased equity throughout Portland’s BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) communities through a combination of fund development and network building opportunities that center economic equity.

Our mission is to grow a local food system that values the environment, health, and quality of life of farmers and eaters in our region. Our objectives include preserving RI farmland and agricultural and culinary knowledge, building healthier communities, reducing on-farm food waste through food rescue activities, increasing food access for insecure populations, improving the impact of food production and distribution on our environment, and strengthening local farm and food producer businesses.

​Farmers Rising builds sustainable local food and farm systems through experiential education and training programs in partnership with rural and urban people.