Your donation in any amount will help a Chicagoan in need transform his or her life through job training and other support services. You will also help us reach out to many Chicagoans through gardening and healthy eating workshops.
Donate online through this secure PayPal link, or mail your donation to our administrative office at 2732 N. Clark, Suite 310, Chicago, IL 60614.
Matching Grant means your gift goes twice as far!
Growing Home is the happy recipient of an anonymous matching grant. This special funding is meant to encourage new donors and increasing gifts by recent donors. If you’ve never given to Growing Home before, every dollar you donate will have double the impact. If you are a previous donor, every dollar you donate that is an increase of last year’s gift will be matched. (If you can’t remember what that is, please send us an email or call 773-549-1336).
Thank you so much for your support!
Shopping List:
These are the kinds of things your donation will buy for our programs:
- Tractor: $12,000
- Lockers (30): $3000
- Juicer: $100
- Broadfork: $80
- Grow Lights: $500 each
- Tub & Surround: $400
- Well Pump: $1200
New! You can offer support through a scheduled monthly donation:
If you have questions about the donation process, please give us a call at 773-549-1336.
In Kind Donations
We are also always looking for farm and household equipment as well as office supplies, vehicles in good working order, and land for new farm sites. We are particularly interested in donations of:
Farming Tools and Implements
- Broadfork
- Composter
- Flame weeder
- Commercial first aid kits
- Heating mat for seedlings
- Cordless drill
- Pruning saws (2)
- Pruning shears (2)
- Trowels (5)
- Heavy duty work gloves
- Safety glasses
- Lawn mower (2)
- Weed whacker
- Digital scale
- Water bottles or canteens
- Garden hoses
- Cultivating tractor
Other
- Magazines and books related to organic farming and gardening, four-season growing, composting, cooking healthy food, preserving food, garden building projects, gardening techniques, and landscaping
- 2 Small microwave ovens
- Juicer
- New or very gently used work clothing (boots, sweatshirts, flannels, wide-brimmed hats, jeans or duckies) in M, L, XL
- Hot plates/burners
- Air popcorn popper
- Vacuum cleaner
- Oil-filled electric heater
- DVD player
Office Supplies and Furniture
- Laminator
- 2 coat trees
- 2 Printer/scanners
- USB-connectable still and video cameras
- All types of office supplies, including printer paper, pens and pencils, notebooks, staplers and staples, etc.
- Laptops
If you have any of these items or something else you think might be useful please contact us!