Figures from right to left: Kim Knowles, Prairie Rivers Network; Tamika Nunez, First Followers; and Abdulhakeem Y Salaam, First Followers.
Illinois Solar for All Grassroots Educators work across the state to help Illinois communities pave the way to a renewable energy future.
This month, our Grassroots Educator spotlight is Prairie Rivers Network, an organization furthering their mission of protecting water, healing land, and inspiring change in their role as a grassroots education organization.
Prairie Rivers Network is working with First Followers, an organization led by and in support of people who were formerly incarcerated, to do person-to-person outreach to invite residents to upcoming community meetings. In addition to upcoming meetings for residents focused on community solar and residential solar projects, Prairie Rivers Network will lead a workshop for non-profit and public facilities on Tuesday, October 22, 2019.
Cunningham Children’s Home, the host for this workshop, was recently selected as the site for a solar development that will supply electricity to its new Educational Center. This solar development will help reduce the organization’s operating costs and allow savings to be used to fulfill the organization’s goal of providing a safe and productive home for children who have been displaced.
Attendance at events led by grassroots education organizations is open to the public.