EVANSTON GROWS community garden partners 2024
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The Backyard Flower Lab experiments with spreading joy to others by giving away the fruits and flowers of the garden.
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Connections serves and catalyzes our community to end homelessness, one person at a time.
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Curt’s Cafe improves outcomes for young adults living in at-risk situations through work and life skills training.
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The Eggleston Park Food Forest is a diverse planting of perennial edible trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants - including fruits, vegetables, nuts and herbs - designed to mimic the natural balance of a forest by utilizing permaculture principles. Edible Evanston offers work & learn days at the Food Forest, as well as sponsoring the annual local seed swap, new gardener group classes, and a robust individual growers sharing program.
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Emerson Square Apartments is a mixed-income rental community. The property is located across from the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center on Foster Street between Dewey and Ashland Avenues in west Evanston, IL.
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Helping children and families thrive since 1913, The Infant Welfare Society serves Evanston, Skokie, Morton Grove and its surrounding communities by providing programs that nurture, support, and educate the whole family. Our mission is to deliver exceptional care and education for infants and young children while supporting families’ efforts to be effective parents and advocates in their child’s learning and development.
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Educating each student to succeed in and contribute to our global community by cultivating creativity, compassion and the pursuit of excellence.
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The Levy Senior Center is located in the southeast corner of James Park on Dodge Ave. and offers a wide variety of programs and classes, including health and wellness classes (ranging from low-impact aerobics to Zumba); and classes in the arts such as wood working and ceramics. Starting in 2021, the Levy Center features a thriving ADA accessible vegetable garden which they will be expanding in the 2022 growing season.
More information on The Levy Center Gardens HERE
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Meals on Wheels - Serving our neighborhood’s older adults for more than 55 years
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Turning Point Behavioral Healthcare Cente
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Victor Walchirk Apartments is an affordable housing community that offers residents a beautiful, safe and social living environment for seniors.
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YWCA Evanston/North Shore is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.