In February-March, 2023, you are invited to participate in one or more focus groups that will take place in the optional 30-minute discussion time immediately following scheduled Peer Learning Circle meetings. We know your time is very valuable and we hope you’ll be...
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago partners with municipalities within its service area (generally, Cook County, Illinois) to fund green infrastructure installations. As part of their agreement to receive funding, municipalities must commit...
Lack of access to capital remains a top reason that neighborhoods in historically marginalized communities are often excluded from equitable benefits of green infrastructure projects. In 2022, the GI Leadership Exchange, through its Collaborative Grant Program,...
Yesterday, Exchange members attended the second of four members-only community engagement workshops. Facilitated by Katherine Baer and April Ingle of the River Network, the workshop set out to teach participants how to support the growth of authentic and...
Resilience – “the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” as defined in the Merriam-Webster. This term can apply to almost any topic, which makes it really handy, but in thinking how a system, like green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), for...
Informed by the theory of change developed earlier this year in collaboration with Onside Partners, the Exchange launched the first of four members-only community engagement workshops in mid-November. With a goal of developing key skills and mindsets needed to develop...