Food to Market Challenge

[Karen Lehman]

Hello all,

The Food to Market Challenge is a $500,000 challenge award offered by Food:Land:Opportunity, an initiative of the Searle Funds at the Chicago Trust. 

"The Food to Market Challenge will attract and inspire multidisciplinary teams to propose innovative solutions to re-conceive supply chain practices that today limit the scale or efficiency of the local food market. Innovative is defined as either new and breakthrough concepts or tried and tested methodologies that when applied differently yield greater results. Teams competing in the Food to Market Challenge will:

• include one local and sustainable food, livestock, or poultry grower whose operation is in the Chicago foodshed, defined as a 250-mile radius outside of the city;
• propose a solution that serves the Chicago region of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties; and
• be entrepreneurial problem solvers made up of at least two organizations or individuals."

Check out the website foodtomarketchallenge.org to learn more!

And go for it.

Karen

Karen Lehman

Director

Fresh Taste

5555 N Sheridan, Suite 18

Chicago, IL. 60640

773-944-5101

www.freshtaste.org