<div dir="ltr">Dear Ms. Adejumo,<div>Thank you for getting in touch with us.  Your program sounds like a good opportunity for one or more community gardens' participation.  May we post this information on our Facebook page to get the word out to all the community gardens?  You may then hear from one or more garden groups who would like to work with you</div><div>Thank you</div><div>Ellen Newcomer</div><div>Chair</div><div>CCGA Resources and Distribution Committee</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:25 AM Lauren Adejumo via Resources <<a href="mailto:resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org">resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">I hope this finds you well.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">My name is Lauren Adejumo
 and I work as the Lead Learning Designer with The Academy Group. The Academy Group is a local non-profit working with young people from Chicago’s most resilient communities, grades 4 through post-college employment. Our program centers on helping students
 become leaders of tomorrows economy and communities, and provides year-round business, social justice, advising, and academic programming. </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">I’m reaching out in hopes that we might connect to discuss how we might partner with you all around our 5^th grade summer social justice course: Food Access and
 Equity. We are aware of your work within the community and would love to find ways to integrate some of your expertise. </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">At present, we anticipate having approximately fifty 5^th grade students in the in-person summer program, which will run at Canter Middle School from July 5^th through
 July 29^th.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">If you’d be interested in connecting with our students, please let me know a few times that you’re available to speak. Thank you in advance for helping our young social justice
 change agents to have this powerful experience!</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Montserrat;color:black">Thanks so much!</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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