<div dir="auto">Mamie, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, it makes it especially disappointing when you were the strongest, most exhilarated voice for this pilot program.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 1:31 PM Mamie Gray <<a href="mailto:mamiegray2012@gmail.com">mamiegray2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello! There were no faith-based organizations selected in North Lawndale. Bummer! <b><font size="4">See attached</font></b>. Mamie<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 6:46 PM Lorraine Kells via Resources <<a href="mailto:resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">resources@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"><div dir="ltr"> Hello all,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><b>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</b>.<br><div><br></div><div><b>Antioch Missionary Baptist Church</b> 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.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Fernwood Community Outreach Church</b> 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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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 </div><div><a href="https://gtvmbc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://gtvmbc.org/</a>  </div><div><br></div><div><b>Hope Community Church</b> 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.</div><div><a href="https://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/6-22-2017/Austin-garden-honors-area's-past,-present-and-future/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/6-22-2017/Austin-garden-honors-area's-past,-present-and-future/</a>  </div><div><br><div><b>Inner-City Muslim Action Network</b> (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</div><div><a href="https://www.imancentral.org/go-green-on-racine/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.imancentral.org/go-green-on-racine/</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)">Lastly</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><span style="background-color:initial"><b>Trinity United Church of Christ</b> 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.</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px"><span style="background-color:initial"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-weight:bold">Imani Village</span>. 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.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"> </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-weight:bold">Imani Village</span></span> 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.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><a href="https://www.imanivillage.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.imanivillage.com/</a>  <br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)">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. </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Our materials were sent to Michael Stewart at the State of Illinois, Department of Human Services, and they will be responsible for distributing them..</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)">Hope you, your homes and your gardens came through the storm with the resilience good gardeners are known for.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)">Lorraine</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><span style="background-color:initial"> </span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(30,40,9)"><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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