[Communications] Faith based organizations announced

[Lorraine Kells]

 Hello all,

The names of the selected faith based organizations have been announced to
us.  These faith based organizations have indeed been serving their
neighborhoods, some at least for 53 years. You may well recognize some of
them because their church based community garden folks have come to our
conferences and participated in our workshops and distributions.  If you
would like to work with one or more of these community gardens that already
exist or participate in helping start a new one, please reply stating your
willingness to work or with any comments you have or concerns to help make
CCGA's offer of technical assistance a successful undertaking.

*Please note: We are asked not to contact any of the churches just yet,
they are still completing  contractual procedures.  Meanwhile we can talk
about how we can help them*.

*Antioch Missionary Baptist Church* in Englewood, not far from Sherwood
Peace Garden is on the list.  The area is 97% Black and until I can find
otherwise, it seems to have no existing community garden.

*Fernwood Community Outreach Church* was apparently only established in
2019 in the Pullman neighborhood.  This area is 94% Black, and according to
the internet, this organization receives a substantial part of its support
from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi).  They have
no website and a very limited Facebook page.  It also seems to have no
existing garden.


Great True Vine Baptist Church is on the west side in Humboldt Park. It
dates back to 1967 but only at its current location since 1982. Not sure if
they have a community garden. Their website is
https://gtvmbc.org/

*Hope Community Church* is rooted in the Austin community. This church
helped form the Ed Bailey- Leola-Spann Community Garden. The garden is one
of the four revitalization programs led by Kim Foxx and her four community
justice centers across Chicago. Each of the West, South, North and Central
Community Justice Centers has collaborated with local aldermen, police
officers and community organizations to build a garden in an empty space –
or revitalize space like the one in Austin.  The church recently started a
pop-up food pantry since many official pantries in the city have closed.
https://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/6-22-2017/Austin-garden-honors-area's-past,-present-and-future/


*Inner-City Muslim Action Network* (IMAN) in Englewood has a broad mixed
use development plan outlined for the community of Englewood and West
Englewood. Find out more on the internet
https://www.imancentral.org/go-green-on-racine/

Lastly

*Trinity United Church of Christ* is in Pullman. They also have a mixed
used community development plan as outlined below.  We know them well. In
fact this is where Pat Hart first met Julie Samuels at a CCGA distribution
years ago. They actively participate in our distributions.


Imani Village. This development will be a beacon of hope in an area that
has become accustomed to despair. Imani Village will be the first holistic,
sustainable, and Green community sponsored by a faith-based entity in the
City of Chicago.



Imani Village represents a unique collaboration between the faith
community, local government and business interests, to provide a model for
urban planning and development that delivers a sustainable green
infrastructure, jobs and job training, healthy urban lifestyle
alternatives, and an optimized educational environment.


https://www.imanivillage.com/


This should be enough information to get us started in understanding what
we are looking at.  Some gardens have well-established community teams and
support and may only need our distributions.  Others may need more.


Our materials were sent to Michael Stewart at the State of Illinois,
Department of Human Services, and they will be responsible for distributing
them..


Hope you, your homes and your gardens came through the storm with the
resilience good gardeners are known for.


Lorraine
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