Growing Home

organic urban farm and workforce-development nonprofit

Growing Home

Industry Food

A Chicago USDA-certified organic urban farm and workforce-development nonprofit in Englewood. It scores this way because paid farm-based job training, healthy food access, and neighborhood empowerment are materially stronger than ordinary produce retail.

Why this matters: Growing Home adds a Chicago food-justice and workforce-development anchor with exact farm and farm-stand locations.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 56* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material52
Bonus+4
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap56
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Ownership7/10
  • Extraction7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims9
  • Direct axis claims9
  • Coverage9/12

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

The linked record identifies Growing Home as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
7 / 10

Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7

Growing Home provides paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training through farm production work.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
  • Growing Home provides paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training through farm production work. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

Growing Home focuses on people with employment barriers in Englewood, a community described by the organization as underserved and facing high unemployment and poverty.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
  • Growing Home focuses on people with employment barriers in Englewood, a community described by the organization as underserved and facing high unemployment and poverty. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

Growing Home uses farm social-enterprise revenue to continue training and employ production assistants rather than only maximizing produce margin.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
  • Growing Home uses farm social-enterprise revenue to continue training and employ production assistants rather than only maximizing produce margin. [6]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • context Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. [1]
  • context Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. [2]
  • context Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. [3]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
1 / 3

Growing Home's urban-farm precedent helped make Chicago urban-farm establishment less difficult through city ordinance change.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Growing Home's urban-farm precedent helped make Chicago urban-farm establishment less difficult through city ordinance change. [7]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
1 / 3

Growing Home links healthy food, employment opportunity, and community empowerment for a historically underserved neighborhood.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Growing Home links healthy food, employment opportunity, and community empowerment for a historically underserved neighborhood. [8]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

Growing Home combines local organic produce with food-access programs serving thousands of neighbors and community residents.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: WA/OR/IL A/B expansion calibrated against existing food-justice nonprofits, worker centers, environmental-justice groups, furniture banks, reuse stores, and conventional retail/service comparators.

Linked evidence
  • Growing Home combines local organic produce with food-access programs serving thousands of neighbors and community residents. [9]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 77/100

9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/12 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

9 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

9 direct claims across 12 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 16, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

9/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Growing Home describes itself as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4Growing Home provides paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training through farm production work.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

5Growing Home focuses on people with employment barriers in Englewood, a community described by the organization as underserved and facing high unemployment and poverty.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6Growing Home uses farm social-enterprise revenue to continue training and employ production assistants rather than only maximizing produce margin.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7Growing Home's urban-farm precedent helped make Chicago urban-farm establishment less difficult through city ordinance change.

Openness To Dissent Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8Growing Home links healthy food, employment opportunity, and community empowerment for a historically underserved neighborhood.

Constitutional Spirit Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9Growing Home combines local organic produce with food-access programs serving thousands of neighbors and community residents.

Good Deal Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

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