<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello, Katie, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I am a member of CCGA's Advocacy and Outreach committee and other members are copied here. I am passionate about helping people start community gardens in Chicago! So our committee will work with you first to learn where you would like to do this, if you have contacted any residents in the area and what you would need to start this - such as helping to organize a local garden committee and what is physically involved in starting and maintaining a garden in the city. This is such a good time of the year to start a garden and I strongly hope you will be able to do it! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Julie Samuels </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:17 PM Katie Ostrowsky via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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My name is Katie Ostrowsky and I am the U.S. Programs intern at the Zakat Foundation. We are a nonprofit international relief NGO that focuses on sustainable giving, <span style="margin:0px">and I am interested in the extensive and commendable work Chicago
Community Gardens does for food accessibility. Zakat is looking to expand its outreach on the southside by partnering with your organization to sponsor a sustainable food production site via a community garden. I am currently a senior at Loyola's Institute
of Environmental Sustainability, and both Aaron Durnbaugh and Kevin Erickson suggested I should attempt to reach out to your organization regarding this.</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px">Please let me know if you have the availability to set up an informational meeting to discuss how Zakat can diversify its sustainable giving by sponsoring an urban agriculture project. I am available via phone and Zoom. Thank you in advance
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<span style="margin:0px">Sincerely,<br>
<span style="margin:0px">Katie Ostrowsky</span></span></div>
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<p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;font-weight:600;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Katie Ostrowsky</p>
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<p style="margin:4px 0px">P.O. Box 639, Worth, IL 60482</p>
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