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Tickets include:

• Appetizers + open bar
• Silent auction
• 3-course meal + dessert
• Keynote address by Rick Bayless

Event Partners and Sponors
in alphabetical order

All Star Trading
All Star Trading is a grain and feed merchandising firm dedicated to the agricultural industry. All Star Trading has an extensive network of customers in the petfood, bird food, food processing, feed mill, and organic industries.

Amoda Flowers
Amoda Flowers provides eco sustainable flor decor with a contemporary and electic design approach. Amoda is committed to sustainability, and provides lots of eco-friendly options, including fair trade, organically grown, and locally grown flowers, compostable and recycled packaging, and uses other green practices.

Andrew Collings Photography
Andrew Collings is an event, wedding, and portrait photographer with over 15 years of experience. He's been a volunteer with Growing Home since early 2008. He writes on his website, "I believe that the job of the photographer is to be there when you need them, be quick, and be precise."

The Balanced Kitchen
This gluten-free, vegan, and sustainable restaurant focuses on eco-friendly practices and local and seasonal foods. The Balanced Kitchen will be relocating soon to Chicago's groundbreaking Green Exchange!

Bistro Campagne
This Lincoln Square favorite offers bistro fare with seasonal twists. Opened by Chef Michael Altenberg, Bistro Campagne "is committed to the use of organic food products and strongly supports the sustainable, low impact agriculture movement."

The Boeing Company
The Boeing Company's Global Corporate Citizenship program supports the communities in which Boeing works.

Builders Bank
Builders Bank was founded in 1997 with a clear vision to provide superior service to middle market real estate professionals on a national basis.

Charlie Trotter's
Award-winning Chef Charlie Trotter's eponymous Chicago restaurant is "regarded as one of the finest restaurants in the world." Focusing on the freshest ingredients available, Chef Trotter crafts a daily menu. He explains his culinary philosophy by saying "The food I create really evolves from one simple question: what do I like to eat?"

Eli's Cheesecake
This Chicago company not only offers superior desserts, but focuses on community by supporting local programs and businesses.

Fox & Obel
"Chicago's premier gourmet market" is built around "the love of great food and the people who are passionate about everything they create, every day."

Intelligentsia
Intelligentsia "adheres to the philosophy that the compassionate treatment of people and the environment inveitably yields higher quality." They seek coffee growers and importers that are environmentally and socially responsible and roast their coffee daily in vintage German roasters.

The Meatloaf Bakery
Do not be deterred! These cupcake-shaped meatloaves are delicious, and come in a vegetarian-friendly lentil loaf as well. Recently reviewed in the Chicago Tribune's Good Eating section as well as in the May 2009 issue of Food and Wine, The Meatloaf Bakery takes the cupcake to new extremes.

Monogramme Events & Catering
"Seasonal, handcrafted cuisine meets sophisticated high-end design at Monogramme Events & Catering. Monogramme's mission is to provide market-driven fare with an urbane flair."

Nia
This mediterranean tapas restaurant in Chicago's West Loop serves traditional and unique hot and cold tapas.

Organic Valley
Organic Valley is a farmer-owned co-op. Growing Home wishes to thank the Midwest Regional Giving Team for their support.

Tsadakeeyah Emmanuel
This vegan chef has been cooking for over 20 years. His restaurant Majani 310 will open in 2009.

Vie Restaurant
Chef Paul Virant serves up cuisine reflecting "the seasons, local harvests, and the world becoming a smaller place." Vie's menu supports local family farms while taking advantage of specialty foods from across the globe.