Big green believesGrowing Food Changes Lives
Big Green is on a mission to grow more food by supporting community-led food production across America. Together, with a network of grassroots nonprofits focused on growing food, we increase food security, improve health and wellbeing, strengthen communities, and protect the environment. We believe growing food changes lives and communities hold the solutions to create food futures that last.
Growing Across America
Every pin on this map is a community growing its own food future. From school gardens to urban community gardens, our network is transforming food access and nurturing neighbors with fresh produce on their own terms.
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Grassroots nonprofit organizations funded
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Garden-beds and grow bags distributed
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Cities we work in
Hamilton, Georgia
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West Georgia Young Farmers’ Cooperative
Farmers’ Cooperative creating a local food system from seed production, fruits, vegetables, value added products, composting, aquaponics to organics. Local Farmers Market,SRI Specialty Rice Production, Partn...
See Grantee Profile St. Louis, Missouri
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New Roots Urban Farm
New Roots Urban Farm is an organic Black-led farm based in North St. Louis City, Missouri. Our mission is to build an intentional, sustainable food system as an alternative to our current food system that contribu...
See Grantee Profile Sheridan, Wyoming
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Guardian Grange
We create healing spaces that protect natural resources, strengthen communities and uplift veterans through regenerative work in nature. We’re combat veterans fighting for America’s food independence b...
See Grantee Profile Asheville, North Carolina
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Hood Huggers Foundation
Hood Huggers Foundation restores the regenerative well-being of historically marginalized communities through the arts, environment, and social enterprise. We envision a culture of sustainability that builds pathw...
See Grantee Profile San Antonio, Texas
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Gardopia Gardens
Gardopia Gardens is a 501(c)3 nonprofit agency based in the Near East of San Antonio, founded in May 2015. Gardopia Gardens is on a mission to teach people how to lead healthy and sustainable lives through growing...
See Grantee Profile Atlanta, Georgia
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HEY! Helping Empower Youth
HEY!’s mission is to inspire, motivate, and mobilize young people to take action that changes their world. Helping Empower Youth (HEY!) exists to prove that a young person’s zip code should not determine t...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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Outer Haven
Outer Haven is a nonprofit rooted in mentorship, agriculture, and outdoor education, creating spaces where young people and families learn to grow food, build resilience, and connect with nature. Through school ga...
See Grantee Profile Brownsville, Texas
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Brownsville Wellness Coalition
The Brownsville Wellness Coalition is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating healthy food and lifestyles in the Rio Grande Valley. We make a difference by expanding access to fresh, local food, providin...
See Grantee Profile Seattle, Washington
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Hip Hop is Green
Founded in 2009, Hip Hop is Green is a nonprofit that promotes holistic wellness and transforms urban communities environmentally with the global power of Hip Hop culture. Our belief is that every city should have...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Urban Growers Collective
Urban Growers Collective is a Black and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago, Illinois working to build a more just and equitable local food system. Our approach trains and educates the next generation of farmers ...
See Grantee Profile Tampa, Florida
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813 Hood Garden Space
813 Hood Garden Space is an educational community garden in Tampa that nourishes the Mind, Body and Soul. Our core programs provide individuals, families and groups with pathways to learn how to grow food with eac...
See Grantee Profile England, Arkansas
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Melosong CITY
We believe connected communities can do impactful work and we believe our health is our wealth. We pursued funding from Big Green to make our community garden accessible to mobility challenged people so that they ...
See Grantee Profile Brownsville, Texas
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Good Neighbor Settlement House
Good Neighbor Settlement House is a nonprofit dedicated to serving individuals and families experiencing poverty and homelessness. We provide food, shelter, clothing, and supportive programs that promote dignity, ...
See Grantee Profile Tucson, Arizona
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Flowers and Bullets
We are organizers creating outlets for underserved youth and communities that reflect the lives we live and the places we come from. Through skill-sharing, promoting place-based connections in the barrio, and list...
See Grantee Profile Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Three Sisters Garden Project
We are a nonprofit farm working to make fresh, local produce accessible to all. We provide year-round food access programs to low-income, food-insecure neighbors in 20 cities and towns across Essex County, Massach...
See Grantee Profile Brownsville, Texas
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Revival Of Cultural Arts
Our mission is to create transformative opportunities for the community to experience the arts through vibrant cultural events, with an emphasis on education that enriches lives, strengthens identity, and elevates...
See Grantee Profile Hood River, Oregon
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The Next Door, Inc.
Our mission is opening doors to new possibilities by strengthening children and families, and improving communities. We envision a supportive community where all children and families are safe, healthy, and valued...
See Grantee Profile Richmond, Virginia
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Happily Natural Day
Happily Natural Day transforms the built environment for food justice and climate resiliency. We steward gardens and farms across Central Virginia and train beginner farmers in how to design, install and steward s...
See Grantee Profile Edinburg, Texas
Sentli Center for Regenerative Agriculture
Sentli’s mission is to reconnect the people to the land and local food system. We strive to increase the affordability and accessibility of nutrient dense sustainably grown food for our communities and ensure th...
See Grantee Profile Zionsville, Indiana
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Watch Us Farm
Transforming lives and strengthening our community by creating meaningful opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities through innovative vocational training, sustainable agriculture, and community enga...
See Grantee Profile San Diego, California
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Healthy Day Partners
Healthy Day Partners designs and supports sustainable food growing programs that empower food-and-nutrition-insecure individuals and communities to take action against local hunger and climate change. Our Key Prog...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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Kaizen Food Rescue
Our Mission is to advance food justice and community well-being in areas impacted by food apartheid in the Denver Metro area. We grow food, redistribute food and work in the food justice advocacy space. Kaizen has...
See Grantee Profile Cortez, Colorado
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Good Sam’s Food Pantry
We are a grassroots nonprofit organization working toward food sovereignty and food justice in the Four Corners through equitable food access, workshops, participatory opportunities and values-based food procureme...
See Grantee Profile San Diego, California
Darnall Charter School’s Garden and Cooking Classrooms
Our mission is to provide our students the opportunity to learn how to grow their own food from seeds and to teach them how to use this food to make simple nutritious meals to help foster healthy eating habits. We...
See Grantee Profile Tucson, Arizona
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Iskashitaa Refugee Network
Iskashitaa Refugee Network helps refugees integrate into their new home using innovative food-focused programs. Our Harvest Program gleans up to 75,000 lbs of food each year from backyards, farms and orchards. Our...
See Grantee Profile Lynwood, Illinois
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Mother Carr’s Farm
Mother Carr’s Farm Mission is to create a sustainable farm that connects our community with the environment through fresh local produce, education and economic empowerment. Mother Carr’s Farm in Lynwood, IL pr...
See Grantee Profile San Diego, California
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Barrio Botany
As connectors and catalysts, Barrio Botany cultivates edible schoolyard gardens that serve as hubs for community learning, connection and resilience in historically marginalized neighborhoods. We offer garden-base...
See Grantee Profile Portland, Oregon
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Wisdom of the Elders, Inc
Our organization strengthens communities by providing programs, apprenticeships, and partnerships that equip participants with practical skills, cultural knowledge, and workforce readiness. Our programs provide ha...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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The Ag & Food Lab
Our vision: A resilient local food ecosystem where farmers are valued, land is honored, and nutritious food is affordable and accessible to all. The Lab supports farmers & entrepreneurs along the local food su...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Stein Learning Gardens at Saint Sabna
The mission of Stein Learning Gardens at St. Sabina is to deliver high quality garden education and community programs that create positive learning experiences, encourage healthy lifestyle choices, and increase c...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago Grows Food
A collaborative nonprofit working to reduce barriers to gardening as a way to fight food insecurity, improve mental and physical health outcomes, and minimize the burden of increasing food prices. By providing peo...
See Grantee Profile Berkeley, California
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Land Together
Led by formerly incarcerated and system-impacted people, Land Together partners with individuals in prison and reentry to restore connections to self, community, and the natural world. We cultivate food gardens, o...
See Grantee Profile Durango, Colorado
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Manna
The mission of Manna is to provide, in the spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those days. Manna’s holistic resource center brings tog...
See Grantee Profile Austin, Texas
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Of the Earth Institute of Indigenous Cultures and Teachings
Through the knowledge shared from Elder Marika Alvarado, Of the Earth Institute of Indigenous Cultures and Teachings works to empower people to grow medicinal plants and herbs that can be used in their homes and i...
See Grantee Profile Austin, Texas
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Partners for Education Agriculture and Sustainability (PEAS)
Our mission is to cultivate joyful connections with the natural world through outdoor learning and edible education! PEAS fosters exploration and awakens a sense of wonder through its educational programs. The org...
See Grantee Profile Salina, Kansas
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Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank, Inc
The Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank engages the community to provide for the emergency needs of food, shelter and well-being. We offer 7 food programs, a limited financial assistance program, and educational opport...
See Grantee Profile Austin, Texas
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Sustainable Food Center
Sustainable Food Center works to transform the food system to nourish our health, land, and livelihood. We envision a just, equitable, and regenerative food system where people and the environment thrive. For five...
See Grantee Profile Savannah, Georgia
West Broad Street YMCA
Mission statement of West Broad Street YMCA: To Provide economic empowerment to help end generational poverty for members of our community using a holistic approach. We do this through programming, strategic partn...
See Grantee Profile Portland, Oregon
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Kindness Farm
Kindness Farm is a multicultural, queer-led regenerative community farm in SE Portland, cultivating the flourishing and upliftment of our communities through access to land, environmental education, and fresh, nut...
See Grantee Profile Atlanta, Georgia
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The Atlanta Ecumenical Urban Farm Network
Our mission is to help Metro Atlanta Worship Well and Eat Well. We work with congregations to build gardens on their land, grow food, and then distribute the food in the community where it was grown. We are buildi...
See Grantee Profile Aurora, Colorado
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Light Carrier
Bringing voice and empowerment to Colorado through advocacy, engagement, education, and access. Coloradans are in need of education on the things affecting them the most, access to skills, and tools to overcome th...
See Grantee Profile Baltimore, Maryland
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Farm Alliance of Baltimore
Farm Alliance of Baltimore (FAB) is a nonprofit supporting urban agriculture and Baltimore’s local food system. Through education, resources, and advocacy, we empower urban growers and strengthen the city’s ne...
See Grantee Profile Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Food To Power
Food To Power is cultivating a just and regenerative food ecosystem in greater Colorado Springs through inter-connected programming in food access, food education, food production, advocacy, and composting. Since ...
See Grantee Profile Waianae, Hawaii
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Hānai Kaiāulu
Hānai Kaiaulu is a student-led nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth through sustainability, cultural connections, and community service. We transform cardboard waste into community resources and create opportu...
See Grantee Profile San Francisco, California
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City of Dreams
City of Dreams mission is to help the youth living in San Francisco’s public housing communities build bright futures through mentorship and youth development. City of Dreams is a youth development nonprofit...
See Grantee Profile Austin, Texas
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Fruitful Commons
Supporting neighborhood leaders and organizations to grow food, strengthen communities, and foster stewardship of the natural commons Fruitful Commons is a 501c3 nonprofit created to support neighborhood leaders a...
See Grantee Profile Fort Collins, Colorado
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Sproutin’ Up
We teach youth ages 9-18 who are living in under-resourced neighborhoods how to have their first job on our farm and we grow food for families who are in need. Each year we pay (collectively) over $15,000 to youth...
See Grantee Profile Flagstaff, Arizona
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Terra BIRDs
Terra BIRDS educates and empowers youth through gardening. We combine environmental stewardship, urban habitat restoration, and food production in K-12 schools and offer sustainability oriented jobs to local young...
See Grantee Profile Columbus, Ohio
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The Garden Club Project
Our mission is to help end hunger and encourage kids to eat healthier. Our Urban Farm STEM Program is expanding with more STEM activities. We serve over 3,000 community members with our fresh produce. We teach ove...
See Grantee Profile Fort Myers, Florida
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The Healthy Earth Organization
The Healthy Earth Organization is a Southwest Florida nonprofit dedicated to inspiring environmental stewardship through hands-on education, sustainable food access, and community engagement. We create impactful p...
See Grantee Profile Aurora, Colorado
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The McBride Impact
We are community organization set up to improve equity, education, employment, and equality in our communities. Awards and Recognition: 2018 My Brother’s Keeper Award 2019 Citizen of the Year 2020 Dream Big Awar...
See Grantee Profile Seattle, Washington
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Thrive for Good
Thrive provides training, tools and seeds to help underserved communities establish productive food gardens that combat malnutrition and generate income. We have more than 300,000 people getting nutritious food fr...
See Grantee Profile Lilburn, Georgia
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TwiddleU Inc
TwiddleU’s Giving Garden is a therapeutic, community-based initiative supporting neurodiverse and Autistic children and their families through hands-on gardening and food justice programming. Our participants, p...
See Grantee Profile Wisconsin
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Ukwakhwa (Our Foods)
We help the community learn about traditional Haudenosaunee agricultural methods of planting, growing, harvesting, seed keeping, food preparation, food storage, tool making, and crafting. Our philosophy is that ev...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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WeeCycle
WeeCycle’s mission is to recycle essential baby gear and match it to Colorado families in need. Our mission is twofold, to support families with infants and toddlers struggling to provide for their children, and...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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WOMEN IN NEED of DISCOVERING OWN WORTH
W.I.N.D.O.W. Prides itself on the diversity that we have being able to address the needs of our community. Whether it is food for the body or food for the soul. We have social driven and health driven programs tha...
See Grantee Profile Moab, Utah
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Youth Garden Project
The Youth Garden Project (YGP) is a garden-based education and community gardening nonprofit in the heart of Moab, Utah. YGP’s mission is to cultivate healthy children, families, and community through educat...
See Grantee Profile Detroit, Michigan
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Nurturing Our Seeds
Nurturing Our Seeds is an educational, urban farm and community hub dedicated to expanding food access, empowering growers, and fostering food education in Detroit. By modeling sustainable agriculture and creating...
See Grantee Profile Boulder, Colorado
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Garden to Table (Growe Foundation)
Garden to Table empowers school communities with gardens and curriculum to engage all students in experiential outdoor education. Our vision is a future in which gardens are an integral part of every school, foste...
See Grantee Profile Wisconsin
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Ohe·láku (Among the Cornstalks)
Ohe·láku is a Haudenosaunee agricultural cooperative reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous foodways, language, and lifeways. We are carrying out our responsibilities and sharing the lessons we learn. Through co...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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Slow Food Denver
Slow Food Denver, founded in 2001, is committed to the enjoyment of local food by all members of the community, seeking to create a more just and sustainable food system. We believe in good, clean, and fair food f...
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Spirit of the Sun
Spirit of the Sun uplifts Indigenous resilience and prosperity by honoring the wisdom of our ancestors and empowering future generations. Guided by the Seven Generations teaching, we nurture intergenerational rela...
See Grantee Profile Atlanta, Georgia
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Gangstas To Growers
On a mission to end poverty, support a self-sufficient food system, and reduce recidivism, Gangstas To Growers is building worker-owned cooperatives that offer hope and opportunities for young people in Atlanta. W...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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Sprout City Farms
Sprout City Farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. Our key programming includes: Healthy Food Access, Farmer Training & Commun...
See Grantee Profile Miami, Florida
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Healthy Little Havana
Healthy Little Havana (HLH) is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing health equity, resilience, and quality of life for residents of Little Havana. By partnering with neighbors and local organizations...
See Grantee Profile Aurora, Colorado
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Food Justice NW Aurora
Food Justice NW Aurora is building a multicultural, intergenerational, and intersectional movement for food justice and food sovereignty to transform our local food system in NW Aurora, CO. We strive to create a j...
See Grantee Profile Kansas City, Missouri
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Global One Urban Farming
Global One Urban Farming is a nonprofit based in Kansas City working to end food insecurity and promote health and environmental justice through regenerative urban agriculture. We empower youth, families, and seni...
See Grantee Profile St. Louis, Missouri
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Good Journey Development Foundation
Good Journey is a community and youth leadership development project organization working with youth and families to improve our communities together. Bustani Ya Upenda, started in 2020, is our urban youth communi...
See Grantee Profile New York, New York
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Grinding Stone Collective Inc.
Grinding Stone Collective is an Indigenous-led nonprofit guided by our New ERA model: Education, Reciprocity, and Action, to revitalize ancestral food systems, restore Native lands, and strengthen community health...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Growing Home Inc.
Growing Home Inc. provides affordable, nutritious food and food education to improve community health, serving over 3,700 residents annually through our USDA-certified organic urban farms. Our mission is to foster...
See Grantee Profile Ypsilanti, Michigan
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Growing Hope
Growing Hope fosters an equitable and sustainable local food system where all people are empowered to grow, sell, buy, prepare, and eat nourishing food. We are part of a growing movement, and you are at its roots....
See Grantee Profile Los Angeles, California
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Growing Hope Gardens
Growing Hope Gardens is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves the tools, space, and freedom to grow their own food. We innovate by bringing resident-led gardens into affordable housing, permanent supportive ...
See Grantee Profile Memphis, Tennessee
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Halls of Ivy Academy
Halls of Ivy Academy is a Memphis-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers communities through gardening, food education, and entrepreneurship. Its programs help residents grow food, build small businesses, and rec...
See Grantee Profile Jonesboro, Georgia
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Hand, Heart + Soul Project
Hand, Heart, and Soul Project (HHSP) is a nonprofit organization committed to nurturing, celebrating, and advancing the needs of historically marginalized communities by creating equitable access to high-quality e...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Just Roots Chicago
We lead community farms in disinvested communities in Cook County. At our farms, we grow fresh, healthy, organic foods, facilitate job training and educational programs, and provide beautiful and welcoming communi...
See Grantee Profile Madison, Wisconsin
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Kaufman Lab
The Kaufman Lab, home to Farm 2 Facts, empowers managers to stake a claim in their community’s ecological, social, and economic growth by putting them in a position to monitor and analyze market data and contrib...
See Grantee Profile Cochiti, New Mexico
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Keres Children’s Learning Center
Keres Children’s Learning Center (KCLC) strives to reclaim our children’s education and honor our heritage by using a comprehensive cultural and academic curriculum to assist families in nurturing Keres-speaki...
See Grantee Profile Aurora, Missouri
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Make Our Day
Make Our Day connects learning to life through hands-on education, mentorship, and real-world skill-building. In our garden classroom, we grow minds and futures while creating alternative paths to education and em...
See Grantee Profile Denver, Colorado
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Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace
In 15 years of serving Community, We have learned that building relationships is key to impact and resilience! Creating connectivity and access to growing food and it’s preparation, providing education about...
See Grantee Profile Cortez, Colorado
Montezuma School to Farm Project
MSTFP grows food in our six beautiful school gardens which we give away to students and the local food pantry. We teach students from PreK to 8th grade in the school gardens about food production, nutrition and re...
See Grantee Profile Tucson, Arizona
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Native American Advancement Foundation
NAAF’s food sovereignty work empowers the GuVo community through sustainable gardening, culturally rooted agricultural education, and reliable food distribution—ensuring families have access to healthy, locall...
See Grantee Profile Crown Point, Indiana
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NW Indiana Food Council
The NWI Food Council’s mission is to cultivate a just, thriving and regenerative food system for all in NW Indiana. We believe everyone has a right to food. We envision a local food system where everyone has...
See Grantee Profile Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Project Love Coalition
Project Love Coalition – Growing Food, Growing Community. Empowering veterans to restore love, pride, purpose, and peace in the community through agriculture. Key Programs & Services Peace and Friendship Urb...
See Grantee Profile San Diego, California
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Project New Villgae
Mission: To serve as a catalyst for resident-led, community-rooted experiences that BUILD stronger neighborhoods; IMPROVE the neighborhood food supply chain; STIMULATE collective investment in better health; and M...
See Grantee Profile Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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Roots Rising
Roots Rising’s mission is to empower youth and build community through food and farming. Our vision is to lift up teens as community changemakers and strengthen the local food system through the transformati...
See Grantee Profile Mission, South Dakota
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Sicangu Community Development Corporation
The Siċaŋġu Food Sovereignty Initiative is a community-based effort to Indigenize our food system and build wicozani (the good way of life) for the Siċaŋġu people—now, and for future generations. Keya Wakp...
See Grantee Profile Leesburg, Virginia
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A Farm Less Ordinary
AFLO provides meaningful employment and a welcoming community to adults with intellectual, cognitive, and developmental disabilities (IDCD), bridging the gaps in skills training at the root of the employment dispa...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Academy for Global Citizenship
AGC cultivates mindful leaders who take action both now and in the future to positively impact their communities and the world beyond. Central to our mission is a commitment to holistic wellness and sustainability...
See Grantee Profile Wayne, Pennsylvania
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African Education Program
The African Education Program (AEP) was born in 2002 in the cafeteria of Radnor High School in Pennsylvania. Four sophomores decided they wanted to do a service project for students living in communities that were...
See Grantee Profile Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Appetite For Change
Appetite For Change is a nonprofit that uses food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. We bring people together to learn, cook, eat, and grow food, creating change that lasts....
See Grantee Profile Brownsville, Texas
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BiG Heroes
BiG Heroes empowers young adults with disabilities through life skills, job training, and hands-on experiences like growing our own food that build confidence and purpose. By fostering inclusion, independence, and...
See Grantee Profile Memphis, Tennessee
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Black Seeds
We are dedicated to transforming lives by sowing seeds of fresh food, health, and sustainable wellness in every community we serve. Increased Food Access: Grown and distributed thousands of pounds of fresh produce...
See Grantee Profile Asheville, North Carolina
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Bountiful Cities
Bountiful Cities builds long-term food security through urban agriculture, education, resource sharing, and equitable food policy. We work for social justice, community resilience, and food sovereignty. We envisio...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Center for Urban Transformation – Chicago
The Center for Urban Transformation (CUT) was established to research and apply, where possible, ecologically sound practices to our projects and in our partnerships. The CUT is informed by the principles of envir...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago Farm Lab
We connect the neighborhood to urban agriculture, build lasting relationships among neighbors and learn to grow our own food together. What makes us unique is that this is a FREE service for the community. About 1...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Cultivate Collective
Cultivate’s mission is to unite education, wellness,sustainability and economic vitality at the community level to drive meaningful, generational impact. Cultivate Collective operates a two-acre urban produc...
See Grantee Profile Atlanta, Georgia
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Cultivating Humanity Incorporated
Our vision is all people living in the Clayton county and Metro Atlanta areas have access to affordable high quality produce. We seek to accomplish this through increasing: Food Awareness Accessibility Collaborati...
See Grantee Profile Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Dream of Wild Health
The mission of Dream of Wild Health (DWH) is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy indigenous foods, medicines, and lifeways. The organization ha...
See Grantee Profile Annapolis, Maryland
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enBloom
enBloom Collective is a wellness and agriculture collective rooted in community, healing, and sustainability. We create opportunities for youth and families as well as aspiring wellness entrepreneurs to connect to...
See Grantee Profile Atlanta, Georgia
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Firdous Community Garden at Mohammed Schools of Atlanta
Growing Food. Cultivating Faith thru Service. Nurturing Future Stewards. The Firdous Community Garden/Farm is registered with the USDA and is certified naturally grown (cng.org). We began in 2014 with just a few g...
See Grantee Profile Birmingham, Alabama
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Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative
At Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative, we believe in doing for each other. If someone’s hungry, we feed them. If someone’s curious, we teach them. If someone has a skill, we lift them up. That’s how communit...
See Grantee Profile Brownsville, Texas
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Friendship of Women, Inc.
Our mission is to provide compassionate leadership and a comprehensive range of trauma-informed services that empower individuals and families affected by family and sexual violence. We are committed to promoting ...
See Grantee Profile Escondido, California
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Garden 31 Community Initiative
Garden 31 transforms lives and landscapes by empowering opportunity youth, using regenerative agriculture as a vehicle for change. We cultivate future farmers, entrepreneurs, and land stewards who reflect the rich...
See Grantee Profile Chicago, Illinois
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Global Gardens Chicago
Our mission is to improve access to fresh vegetables for newly arrived refugee families and their urban neighbors; feed the souls of displaced farmers through re-connection with the soil and food production; provi...
See Grantee Profile Decatur, Georgia
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Global Growers Network
Global Growers is a network of 200 farmers and local food systems leaders in Georgia who grow fresh food from many agricultural traditions. We grow fresh food for our families and to supply the local markets, and ...
See Grantee Profile Austin, Texas
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Black Lives Veggies
Black Lives Veggies is a community-driven initiative that promotes food justice and sustainability by empowering Black communities through urban agriculture. It focuses on increasing access to fresh, locally grown...
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Community-led approaches are the solution to a food system that lasts and supports everyone.
Powered by Community: Fight for the Future
Duron Chavis of Happily Natural Day, a force in the food justice movement who is redefining what land ownership and land stewardship look like in urban America. For communities historically dispossessed of land, Duron’s work is more than farming. It is reclamation and self-determination.
Powered by Community: Rooted in Riviera
For Veleké Brown, the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 illuminated an existing gap in resources across Riviera Beach: fresh food. The disparity between wealth and poverty is tremendous in this part of Florida. In Palm Beach County, you can find some of the wealthiest individuals in America, yet within less than a 15-mile radius, there’s a city where grocery stores with fresh food are few and far between.Big Green and E-Roadmap have partnered so that thousands of Riviera Beach community members can grow food at home, in schools, and in communities spaces. Veleké has big plans for this city, and the fight for greater food security and a more resilient food future for Riviera Beach has only just begun.
Powered by Community: Food is Medicine
In partnership with the Grant Community African Methodist Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas, over 300 families are now growing their own food. The San Antonio Million Gardens project began in 2021 when Pastor Linda Carmen Bryant and her husband Elder Raymond Bryant recognized their community was in need of accessible, healthy food to combat the disproportionately high rates of chronic illness they saw within their community – diabetes, kidney disease, and heart failure. Understanding food as a root cause of chronic diseases led them to Big Green.
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