Freshwater Future is a collaborative and entrepreneurial organization that seeks perspective from diverse communities and individuals, builds partnerships and collaborations, works to ensure equity in the solutions we advocate, and values residents’ knowledge and abilities in our work to protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes for current and future generations.

Latino Outdoors inspires and connects comunidades to the outdoors, centering cultura, celebrating familia and heritage, and uplifting our history and leadership as part of the outdoor experience. Latino Outdoors envisions a world where our comunidades experience nature as a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space, where we can share and celebrate our stories while fostering leadership and building a vibrant community of people who love and care for the outdoors.

We work in collaboration with communities to develop and expand access to local, sustainably grown food. We use regenerative practices to grow fresh, organic, culturally affirming food with and for our community. 50% of the food we grow is sold on a sliding scale. The other 50% is donated to food pantries, mutual aid, and senior and public housing facilities. Our farms are safe, welcoming, and inclusive green spaces where neighbors can connect with each other and the land. 

Established in 2017, Grow Greater Englewood (GGE) works in partnership with community stakeholders to develop local food economies and land sovereignty which empower residents to thrive. GGE envisions an African-centered community in which all people have resources to live safe, happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. GGE is building African centered and sustainable districts in Englewood that improve community health. 

LVEJO was founded in 1994 by public school parents who learned about the potential exposure of their children to dangerous particles during school renovations at Joseph E. Gary Elementary. After forcing the school administration to change their plans, these parents turned their attention to other issues of environmental justice in Little Village. After twenty years, LVEJO continues to organize for a healthier community in Little Village and beyond. 

JTNWI is a grassroots environmental justice organization that serves Northwest Indiana. Our work centers on a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The NWI region is also home to the Indiana Dunes National Park and Lake Michigan. It is one of North America's most ecologically rich areas, important for time immemorial to dozens of Native American tribes. JTNWI is bringing communities together across Northwest Indiana to demand what we all need–clean water, air, and soil–while building the regenerative economy of tomorrow. 

Using outdoor adventure sports like paddling, camping, cycling, hiking, and rock climbing, Chicago Adventure Therapy (CAT) works with Chicago children, youth, and young adults to have a lasting positive impact on their communities and become healthy adults by teaching effective social skills and strong leadership skills, increasing participants’ sense of possibility, and fostering a sense of empowerment and personal responsibility.

Our mission is to invest in Chicago's youth by providing them with opportunities to engage in climbing, fostering both physical and emotional growth. We are dedicated to breaking down barriers to the sport through free programming, sponsorship, and expert training whilst instilling respect for our natural environment. Through these efforts, we strive to build a supportive community that equips future generations to thrive.

We are a nonprofit that leads bike adventures to immerse and educate in local history and nature. As a community organization, we aim to immerse, educate, and preserve the history, culture, trails and native habitats of the Lower Lake Michigan Basin Area through exploratory bike adventures. Established in 2015, we now have many different resources, events, and programs ​we offer to the public.

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy organization. ELPC drives transformational policy changes with national impacts. They show that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together by putting sustainability principles into practice. They advance climate solutions effectively by accelerating clean renewable energy alternatives to conventional power plants and advancing clean transportation solutions.