Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food
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Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food
Share skills and talents in your community
Organize a free meeting place in your community to repair things instead of throwing them away.
Equip young people with the skills and commitment to solve problems with courage, compassion and collaboration
Welcome new arrivals with dinner in your community. Join a welcoming movement built around food, language and social interaction.
Teach teens how to work with local leaders and take effective political action to fix local problems.
Transform Recess to Transform your School
Turn spaces in your community in to PLAYces for all kids.
Organize a river cleanup in your community or workplace and help to keep the Chicago River litter free.
Welcome immigrants to your community through conversational English classes
Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food.
Community gatherings to build bridges and overcome division
Start a vertical school garden in your classroom to give kids access to fresh produce and to learn about growing food.
A micro-granting dinner celebrating creative projects in your community
Use school grounds to develop a sense of place and connection to the environment for urban dwellers.
Bring people together in your neighborhood to plant trees for the benefit of your community and the environment.
Organize an Open Orchard to bring people together, to provide free fruit to local residents and to green our urban environments.
Organize a Walking School Bus in your local area for a healthier, more fun way for kids to get to and from school.
Start recycling right with standardized recycling labels for your school that will help you to improve recycling and save your school money.
Global competence teaching and learning for your classroom
Get hands-on education and support to plant trees in your neighborhood with your neighbors.
Build Common Ground in Your Community by Hosting a Welcoming Week Event.
Adventure Beyond the Classroom
Bring people together in conversation through stories, art, and objects.
A community gathering in a local park to celebrate a love of the written or spoken word
Provide a space in your community where men can find meaning, friendship and belonging
Promote pollinator health on your farm and receive recognition and consumer support for it.
Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
Start a grassroots campaign to reduce and eliminate wasteful plastic straws from our communities.
ChangeX & Microsoft have teamed up to launch a $70,000 fund to help you bring new sustainability projects to your Chicago community
Apply to Start IdeaYou live in Chicago and wish to start a ChangeX idea to improve your community.
Up to $5000 funding and free starter resources for each new project started.
Pick the idea you wish to start and complete a simple 30 day jumpstart challenge.
