Sweet Water News: 2020 Annual Summary

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Sweet Water Foundation News | 2020 Annual Summary View this email in your browser Show Your Support Today! THERE GROWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD 20/20 Clarity of Vision Sweet Water Foundation 2020 Annual Summary + 2021 Civic Arts Church Preview Sweet Water Foundation entered 2020 with a Clarity of Vision.  In the early months of 2020, we hit the ground running; deconstructing exhibits of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, hosting visitors from near and far, and engaging an intergenerational audience in Arts + Culture workshops.  Then, ...the world changed.  As the rest of the world turned indoors, the essential work of Sweet Water continued. In 2020, it became clear that it's time for the Essential Economy. The Humans of Sweet Water embraced the precarity of the moment and, amidst a myriad of social, political, and economic uncertainty, ...a New Normal emerged. We invite you to click below to see our 2020 year-in-review.   Sweet Water Foundation 2020 Annual Summary 2021 | Redefining Historic Preservation at The Commonwealth Introducing the Civic Arts Church In early 2020, Sweet Water Foundation (SWF) acquired an abandoned church at 5810 S. Lafayette Avenue, just a stone's throw from the heart of The Commonwealth. The SWF team immediately began envisioning how the building might be renovated and activated into a place that honors and preserves histories that have been erased and untold. SWF shared its vision with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and, in July 2020, was awarded an African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant to reimagine and revitalize the church and other spaces across The Commonwealth.  In 2021, Sweet Water Foundation will transform the church into a community design center known as Civic Arts Church. SWF is undertaking a collaborative, contextualized, and regenerative approach to historic preservation that will amplify the rich African American heritage of the community and offer guidance to a more radical and imaginative collective future.    A campaign to fund Civic Arts Church will launch in 2021.  We hope you’ll join us on this journey! Click below to learn more.    Learn More about Civic Arts Church Show Your Support!   As you plan your year-end giving, we hope that you will consider making a donation to Sweet Water Foundation. Your contribution will support the next evolution of The Commonwealth and our practice of Regenerative Neighborhood Development.    Visit our Amazon Wishlist. Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*