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Growing for Good with Green Thumb: Growing Home Inc.

Growing Home Inc. is a USDA-Certified Organic urban farm, workforce development center and non-profit social enterprise based in Englewood. They produce more than 35,000 pounds of produce annually, while serving more than 3,500 people through their food access program and providing job training and assistance services for 100 Chicagoans. Growing Home was recently awarded a […]

Growing for Good with Green Thumb: Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change (ECCSC): Providing innovative violence prevention, intervention programs, and resources

When it comes to violence, formerly incarcerated individuals are subject-matter experts. Violence has affected our lives on every level, whether we created it or whether we were the victim. Violence is as old as America, and it’s unfortunate that it disproportionately impacts the most disinvested communities. Violence is a community problem. To me, that means […]

Growing for Good with Green Thumb: NDICA

NDICA is a social equity and social justice national nonprofit organization whose mission is to create an ethical and equitable industry to reduce barriers contributing to the lack of representation of those most impacted by the war on drugs.