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The list below provides a quick summary of the initiative and links to their website and social media. If there are any initiatives or information to be added, please submit suggestions through our Contact Us page.
The list below provides a quick summary of the initiative and links to their website and social media. If there are any initiatives or information to be added, please submit suggestions through our Contact Us page.
Active Initiatives
Active Initiatives
Focus: Conservation, Nature, Wildlife
Focus: Conservation, Nature, Wildlife
The Chicago Wilderness Alliance is a regional collaborative of hundreds of partner organizations and individuals working to implement landscape-scale approaches to conservation in and around the southern shores of Lake Michigan. They bring leaders, experts, and mid-career and young-career conservation professionals together to share diverse voices and perspectives and to work toward a common vision: creating and protecting a vibrant, accessible region where people and nature thrive.
The Chicago Wilderness Alliance is a regional collaborative of hundreds of partner organizations and individuals working to implement landscape-scale approaches to conservation in and around the southern shores of Lake Michigan. They bring leaders, experts, and mid-career and young-career conservation professionals together to share diverse voices and perspectives and to work toward a common vision: creating and protecting a vibrant, accessible region where people and nature thrive.
Focus: Energy, Education, Connect
Focus: Energy, Education, Connect
The Climate Reality Project — Chicago Chapter advocates for a just transition to a clean energy economy. Our mission is to educate our communities about the climate crisis. We connect and activate people to join a global movement to create solutions that can dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions and transform our world.
The Climate Reality Project — Chicago Chapter advocates for a just transition to a clean energy economy. Our mission is to educate our communities about the climate crisis. We connect and activate people to join a global movement to create solutions that can dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions and transform our world.
Focus: Planning, Infrastructure, Resiliency
Focus: Planning, Infrastructure, Resiliency
Delta Institute collaborates with communities to solve complex environmental challenges throughout the Midwest. They do so through a variety of projects including nature based climate solutions, resilient agriculture, and sustainability and support services. Their mission is to address Midwestern environmental, economic, and climate challenges today, so that our home and region are more resilient, equitable, and innovative tomorrow.
Delta Institute collaborates with communities to solve complex environmental challenges throughout the Midwest. They do so through a variety of projects including nature based climate solutions, resilient agriculture, and sustainability and support services. Their mission is to address Midwestern environmental, economic, and climate challenges today, so that our home and region are more resilient, equitable, and innovative tomorrow.
Focus: Community, Environmental Justice, Resilience
Focus: Community, Environmental Justice, Resilience
Elevated Chicago is a space for collaboration between a diverse group of community members and leaders including Chicago residents, regional nonprofits, activists, city officials, and policymakers. The organization places values on racial equity, climate resilience, public health, and culture in order to create a more sustainable and equitable Chicago.
Elevated Chicago is a space for collaboration between a diverse group of community members and leaders including Chicago residents, regional nonprofits, activists, city officials, and policymakers. The organization places values on racial equity, climate resilience, public health, and culture in order to create a more sustainable and equitable Chicago.
Focus: Energy, Health, Equity
Focus: Energy, Health, Equity
For nearly 30 years, Energy Foundation has supported grantees to help educate policymakers and the general public about the benefits of a clean energy economy that benefits everyone. We cultivate networks of diverse allies who work to deliver long-term results, making progress where others have not. Our grantees include business, health, environmental, labor, equity, community, faith, and consumer groups, as well as policy experts, think tanks, universities, and more.
For nearly 30 years, Energy Foundation has supported grantees to help educate policymakers and the general public about the benefits of a clean energy economy that benefits everyone. We cultivate networks of diverse allies who work to deliver long-term results, making progress where others have not. Our grantees include business, health, environmental, labor, equity, community, faith, and consumer groups, as well as policy experts, think tanks, universities, and more.
Focus: Energy, Environmental Justice, Conservation
Focus: Energy, Environmental Justice, Conservation
The Environmental Law and Policy Center Advocates, innovates, and litigates to protect the Midwest’s environment from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. ELPC is accelerating renewable energy, retiring polluting coal plants, improving transportation, safeguarding clean water and air, and protecting wild places like the Savanna Sand Prairie and the Shawnee National Forest.
The Environmental Law and Policy Center Advocates, innovates, and litigates to protect the Midwest’s environment from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. ELPC is accelerating renewable energy, retiring polluting coal plants, improving transportation, safeguarding clean water and air, and protecting wild places like the Savanna Sand Prairie and the Shawnee National Forest.
Focus: Conservation, Emissions
Focus: Conservation, Emissions
As part of the global Extinction Rebellion movement, Extinction Rebellion Chicago persuades government organizations to take action against global warming and other climate-related causes through non-violent direct action.
As part of the global Extinction Rebellion movement, Extinction Rebellion Chicago persuades government organizations to take action against global warming and other climate-related causes through non-violent direct action.
Focus: Resources and Coalitions | Faith, Environmental Justice
Focus: Resources and Coalitions | Faith, Environmental Justice
Faith in Place Green Teams are groups of 3 or more people from a House of Worship who provide cooperative leadership to educate, connect, and advocate for healthier communities. The teams meet regularly to connect your faith community’s spiritual practices and traditions with solutions for climate change and other environmental justice issues. Green Teams educate their members, motivate their faith community to incorporate environmental consciousness into all activities and celebrate accomplishments. Some topics green teams tackle include: climate change, energy, environmental advocacy, youth empowerment, flooding prevention, and sustainable food and land use.
Faith in Place Green Teams are groups of 3 or more people from a House of Worship who provide cooperative leadership to educate, connect, and advocate for healthier communities. The teams meet regularly to connect your faith community’s spiritual practices and traditions with solutions for climate change and other environmental justice issues. Green Teams educate their members, motivate their faith community to incorporate environmental consciousness into all activities and celebrate accomplishments. Some topics green teams tackle include: climate change, energy, environmental advocacy, youth empowerment, flooding prevention, and sustainable food and land use.
Focus: Sustainability, Resilience, Social Justice
Focus: Sustainability, Resilience, Social Justice
Foresight’s mission is to build the capacity of leaders, organizations, collaboratives, and other systems change agents to accelerate progress toward greater ecological balance, economic vitality, and social equity and justice.
Foresight’s mission is to build the capacity of leaders, organizations, collaboratives, and other systems change agents to accelerate progress toward greater ecological balance, economic vitality, and social equity and justice.
Focus: Conservation, Nature, Resiliency
Focus: Conservation, Nature, Resiliency
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation supports innovative and inclusive organizations and programs that advance land conservation across the greater Chicago region, with emphasis on four key themes: protection and stewardship of natural and working lands; climate resiliency; advocacy; and benefits to diverse communities throughout the region.
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation supports innovative and inclusive organizations and programs that advance land conservation across the greater Chicago region, with emphasis on four key themes: protection and stewardship of natural and working lands; climate resiliency; advocacy; and benefits to diverse communities throughout the region.
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