…share our mission of fostering resilience in the Great Lakes because we love this region! In collaboration with our Driven Doers – the passionate people who bring our ideas to…
Featured BOOST Sponsor: Carbon Yield
…to sponsor Boost and pay it forward to support the next generation of driven doers and entrepreneurs. What else would you like to share with our supporters about your business/organization,…
Surveying Brownfields in Little Village: A Community-Driven Approach to Neighborhood Revitalization
…is one step in a larger community-driven brownfield revitalization effort being led by LVEJO and Delta in Little Village. The information collected as part of the windshield surveys will be…
Funding a Sustainable Future – 5th Annual BOOST Event Funds Social Innovation in Chicagoland
…IL – BOOST (Building Opportunities for Original and Sustainable Thinking) utilizes a community-driven platform for unrestricted seed funds, launching enterprises that strengthen the environmental and economic vitality of the Chicagoland…
The Field Museum of Natural History wins Illinois Governor’s Sustainability Award with assistance from Delta
…educational opportunities for visitors. We highlighted the Field’s Director of Facilities Planning and Operations, Ernst Pierre-Toussaint in our Driven Doers series. You can learn more about their LEED Gold certification…
Delta Institute Launches 4th Chicago Green Office Challenge
CHICAGO, Ill. (September 2, 2014) – Today Delta Institute CEO Jean Pogge announced the launch of the Chicago Green Office Challenge, an impact-driven competition that encourages Chicago businesses to adopt…
Chicago’s Green Innovators To Pitch New Projects at Crowd-Funding Event
…tailored package of in-kind resources in addition to the support of the BOOST community. “This community-driven approach to financing social ventures overcomes a funding barrier for local entrepreneurs and engages…
Delta Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
…advancing hundreds of innovative and inclusive community-driven projects throughout the Midwest, like developing the City of Chicago’s Waste Strategy in 2021, an initiative that has helped the City improve its…
A conversation with Board Chair Vanessa Roanhorse
…aware of issues like economic mobility, gender violence, environmental racism, and discrimination against disabled, LGBTQIA+, and neurodivergent communities. However, we previously lacked the language to connect our resource-driven efforts for…
Celebrating the 2024 BOOST Winners for Sustainability & Innovation
Snail Catalog and South Shore Community Works named as Delta Institute’s BOOST Winners, continuing 13-year legacy of advancing community-driven sustainability start-ups Last week, Delta Institute presented its 13th annual…
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