Midwest Grows Green accomplishes large scale behavior change by sharing pesticide and fertilizer reduction information at critical places where lawns influence our lives.

Openlands protects the natural and open spaces of northeastern Illinois and the surrounding region.

Alliance for the Great Lakes works to conserve and restore the world’s largest freshwater resource, using policy, education and local efforts.

This organization works to grow its region’s urban connection to the world of nature and science through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibitions, and public forums.

ELPC develops and leads strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to protect natural resources and the environment with a focus on the Midwest.

Friends of the Chicago River seeks to improve and protect the Chicago River system for people, plants and animals.

Gardeneers cultivates customized school garden programs to ensure each space, and the students and communities who care for it, connect with healthy food and grow to their full potential.

LVEJO works for environmental justice in Little Village, seeking self-determination for immigrant, low-income and working-class families.

This organization builds collective power to eliminate injustice through community organizing, developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.

Utilizing innovative solutions to rehabilitate urban waterways across the globe, Urban Rivers is working to restore 3,500 feet of the Chicago River on the eastern seawall of the North Branch Canal.

SAFE seeks to prevent fracking and other fossil-fuel extraction, and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in southern Illinois.

This group works to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.