Advocates for City Agriculture Awards Capability Constructing Grants to Chicagoland Farms
This December, Advocates for City Agriculture (AUA) introduced the names of 11 farm companies awarded funding by way of their 2020 Capability Constructing Grant.
Via the Capability Constructing Grant, AUA acquired $410,000 price of requests from Chicagoland growers eager to scale up their operations and strengthen engagement with their surrounding communities. The variety of purposes and stage of funding requests demonstrates the excessive quantity of sustainable city farm companies within the Chicagoland area able to take the following step by scaling up their operation.
AUA is proud to be supporting farms positioned in Chicagoland communities, led by growers who stay, work, and resemble the communities during which they work. The Capability Constructing grant was co-created by a gaggle of Chicagoland-based growers who recognized 5 guiding values for this system:
- Holistic, Sustainable Rising Course of & Practices
- Group Engagement, Enrichments, Relationships, and Belongings
- Self-Dedication, Justice, Fairness, and Non-Exploitative practices
- Clear Course of and Financial Progress
- Collective Progress and Collaboration Belief
Beatrice Kamau, 2020 Capability Constructing Grant Recipient with A number of Harvest Farm, speaks to those very values. “The Grant will assist scale up manufacturing and enhance the standard of our produce,” says Kamau. “We’re trying ahead to persevering with to develop greens which can be widespread among the many African Immigrants [and] additionally sharing with all of Chicagoland communities.”
All the Capability Constructing Grant awardees lead operations during which greater than 50% of the operation is owned, operated, and/or based by BIPOC and trans, non-binary, and/or gender non-conforming gender people. This funding is supporting grantees who determine their communities as ones which embrace immigrants, the chronically in poor health, and folks of shade.
“Centering these numerous views is one crucial method during which city agriculture organizations can proceed to re-imagine our meals system and make it more and more equitable,” stated Bea Fry, AUA’s Growth Coordinator.
For extra details about AUA and their funding packages, go to http://www.auachicago.org.
About Us
Advocates for City Agriculture (AUA) is a coalition of city farms, neighborhood and college gardens, people and companies working to help and increase sustainable agriculture within the Chicago area. AUA’s mission is to empower city growers to foster thriving communities by way of sustainable agriculture and equitable meals methods.
Meals:Land:Alternative (FLO) is a partnership between The Kinship Basis and The Chicago Group Belief, funded by the Searle Funds at The Chicago Group Belief.
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Press Contact:
Bea Fry
Growth Coordinator, Advocates for City Agriculture
651-728-3322
www.auachicago.org
Sean Ruane
Govt Director
815-931-1743
2020 Capability Constructing Grant Recipients:
- $20,000 Awardee: More energizing Collectively
- $10,000 Awardees: Cedillo’s Contemporary Produce, Getting Grown Collective, Run-A-Method Buckers Membership, Develop Thrive Farm
- $5,000 Awardees: Iyabo Farms, A number of Harvest, Bee-utiful Honey, BSRR Youth Middle Academy and Farm
- $2,500 Awardees: Catatumbo Cooperative Farm, Coleman Pharaoh’s Backyard
