<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Megan - We will include your event in our newsletter, which is going to be sent out in the next couple of days! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class="">on behalf of CCGA Communications <br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 21, 2020, at 3:20 PM, Megan Morrison, Growing Home,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Inc via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" class=""><div style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0px" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Dear Members at Chicago Community Gardener's Association,</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c5" style="font-size:10pt">I’m Megan, the Marketing & Communications Coordinator at </span><span class="c14 c5" style="color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;font-size:10pt"><a class="c9" href="http://growinghomeinc.org/" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">Growing Home, Inc</a></span><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">, a non-profit urban farm in Englewood that uses urban agriculture as a vehicle for job training, food access and community impact.</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">On Thursday, August 27, we are hosting a Virtual Cookoff Fundraiser to help us support the work we do in our community. We’re trying to spread the word as far as possible in the Chicago area and would love your help.</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Attached is a press release as well as our graphic for the event. If you can help by promoting this event on your news platform, want more information or have advice on someone we should contact - please let me know.</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Thank you for your consideration and for the work you do in our Chicago community. Hope you and your team are safe and well.</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Take care,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c1" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Megan</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; 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line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c6 c5" style="color:#434343;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Arial";font-style:normal;font-size:10pt">Megan Morrison</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c12 c13 c5" style="font-weight:700;color:#434343;font-size:10pt">Marketing & Communications Coordinator</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c6 c5" style="color:#434343;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Arial";font-style:normal;font-size:10pt">Growing Home, Inc.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c10 c5" style="color:#434343;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Arial";font-style:italic;font-size:10pt">She/Her/Hers</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; 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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c2" style="color:#434343;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:normal">Chicago, IL 60636 Chicago, IL 60621</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c2" style="color:#434343;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:normal">(773) 434-7144 (773) 549-1336</span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c2" style="color:#434343;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:normal"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c5 c8" style="color:#434343;text-decoration:underline;font-size:10pt">g</span><span class="c8 c5" style="color:#434343;text-decoration:underline;font-size:10pt"><a class="c9" href="http://growinghomeinc.org/" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">rowinghomeinc.org</a></span><span class="c12 c5" style="color:#434343;font-size:10pt"> | </span><span class="c8 c5" style="color:#434343;text-decoration:underline;font-size:10pt"><a class="c9" href="https://youtu.be/-GCO-KKuaF8" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">How are we growing this summer?</a></span></div><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c4" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><p class="c0" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left; height: 11pt;"><span class="c4" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c4" style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Att: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c14" style="color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline"><a class="c9" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10EW7ZHX4-kZ8iZAkDJJR6FbBCux-spgPZmXMVEgLvlA/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">Growing Home Virtual Fundraiser Press Release</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.15; text-align: left;" class=""><span class="c14" style="color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline"><a class="c9" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EM0mjDvG467z0bFm5kaOpx7_r-vEF9pH/view?usp=sharing" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">Growing Home Virtual Fundraiser Event Graphic</a></span></div></div>
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