Out of Eden Walk Partners with the Robert R. McCormick Foundation

Global to Local: Slow Journalism For Community Impact 

The Out of Eden Walk is happy to announce that the Robert R. McCormick Foundation in Chicago, a philanthropy dedicated to fostering communities of educated, informed, and engaged citizens, has awarded our non-profit organization a $250,000 grant to be disbursed over five years.

Thanks to the McCormick Foundation’s generous support, the “Out of Eden Walk” will pioneer the “Chicago Homestories” program in the greater Chicago area. Drawing on slow journalism ethos of inclusive, cross-cultural dialogue and community engagement, this civic-minded project will foster understanding and tolerance by encouraging residents to walk through Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods and share their experiences of home across the city on a crowd-sourced storytelling map set to debut to the public in spring 2019. We are thrilled to be working with Chicagoans to explore the city at boot-level, just as the “Out of Eden Walk” explores the world—with empathy and compassion.