Does your group or organization work to improve the environment in the Chicago region and/or the surrounding area? Please tell us about your environmental stewardship work and where you do it.
We are using a broad definition of stewardship: conserving, managing, caring for, monitoring, advocating for, and educating the public about local environments. Using this definition, stewardship may include restoring a prairie, advocating against toxics, promoting recycling, gardening in a schoolyard, cleaning up a vacant lot, or many other kinds of activities.
The goals of Chicago STEW-MAP are to:
By participating in STEW-MAP, you can make sure your group gets credit for the stewardship work you are doing. You can also post your group’s website and contact info on the online Chicago stewardship map for potential volunteers, funders, and other stewards to see.
A similar project conducted in New York City has already helped stewardship groups find each other and obtain new resources and partners. We hope that Chicago STEW-MAP will have positive impacts throughout northern Illinois, northwest Indiana, and beyond.
This questionnaire should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Thank you for participating!
WECAN was one of the first groups in Chicago to redevelop low income housing units that use energy conservation as a must for the redevelopment of all our properties.
We believe that we are all responsible for taking care of our environment.
Preserve, protect, educate are our keywords.
We manage and restore native ecosystems for education purposes, to improve water quality and mitigate flooding associated with storm water runoff.
"Preserve the Future" - our slogan.