What is Community?
"community is not a place, a building, or an organization; nor is it an exchange of information over the Internet. Community is both a feeling and a set of relationships among people"
How do I Know I'm Part of a Community?
"Members of a community have a sense of trust, belonging, safety, and caring for each other. They have an individual and collective sense that they can, as part of that community, influence their environments and each other."
Understanding how difficult it may be to navigate the environmental world with an immense number of emerging topics - finding a way to support can be easy as asking, applying and showing up. Take the first step in reviewing areas of support community groups need and where YOU can genuinely pull through with. Remember you're on their timeline and requests not the other way around!
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Want to support nature based community groups but dont know how?
*with ongoing environmental work, contact times will vary considering organizational needs are specific to each group to support their organization. Such as long-term commitments/programs,
yearly planning, budget management, grant application processes,
to the relational building from small to big.
Explore Organizations For/By/With Community
Explore the nature-based groups organizing in your local and/or surrounding neighborhoods from Community Farms, Community Gardens, Community Support Groups, Enironmental Justice Organizations, Religious Nature Based Groups, Nature Based Community Clubs, Environmental Projects, Community Environmental Services to Well Established Environmental Based Events!
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Find your place in the environmental world through Chicagos "UrbsinHorto" landscape!
Quick Visual Tips
Groups placed in Grant Park are groups with no known location but serve the general Chicagoland public.
Organizations with known locations are tagged with individual markers, whereas when a community organization has no-known location the area they serve will be shaded.
If you wish to fix a location DM @wearethecityinagarden.
Application to appear on the Community Connect Map will be added soon!
*Background Rendering from The Wild Mile and Urban Rivers