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
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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.
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7 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Growing Home as a nonprofit social enterprise and workforce-development center. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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7 / 10 |
Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. Linked evidence
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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.
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5 / 7 |
Growing Home provides paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training through farm production work. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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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. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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6 / 7 |
Growing Home uses farm social-enterprise revenue to continue training and employ production assistants rather than only maximizing produce margin. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations. Linked evidence
|
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.
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1 / 3 |
Growing Home's urban-farm precedent helped make Chicago urban-farm establishment less difficult through city ordinance change. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
Growing Home links healthy food, employment opportunity, and community empowerment for a historically underserved neighborhood. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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2 / 3 |
Growing Home combines local organic produce with food-access programs serving thousands of neighbors and community residents. Linked evidence
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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
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.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
2Growing Home publishes its Wood Street Urban Farm and farm stand locations in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
- Growing Home our modelGeneral web source · 58%
3Growing Home operates a USDA-certified organic urban farm and grows produce for sale and donations.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
4Growing Home provides paid on-the-job experience and job-readiness training through farm production work.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
5Growing Home focuses on people with employment barriers in Englewood, a community described by the organization as underserved and facing high unemployment and poverty.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
6Growing Home uses farm social-enterprise revenue to continue training and employ production assistants rather than only maximizing produce margin.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
7Growing Home's urban-farm precedent helped make Chicago urban-farm establishment less difficult through city ordinance change.
- Growing Home farms and locationsGeneral web source · 58%
8Growing Home links healthy food, employment opportunity, and community empowerment for a historically underserved neighborhood.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
9Growing Home combines local organic produce with food-access programs serving thousands of neighbors and community residents.
- Growing Home about usOfficial self-description · 68%
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