Who is Midwest Partners?

Midwest Partners is a non-profit, tax-exempt (501(c)3) organization founded in Princeton, IL in 2015. It promotes collaborative civil engagement on issues ranging from Main Street revitalization to growing local food, and supporting community and environmental health, public arts, regional economic development, and services for children, youth, and adults of all ages.

Midwest Partners has helped create projects that have had an impact throughout Bureau County and the surrounding Starved Rock Country region.  Sometimes even further away than that.

Somebody has to clean up what we all throw out the car window along the country roads. Recyclable bags, gloves and a small group of volunteers on Earth Day are a start. Less trash to begin with is even better! Let’s make recycling a normal part of everyday life!

We benefit from butterflies of all sizes and colors…

Our Mission

To facilitate individual and community development to meet basic human needs, reduce material, social, and spiritual poverty, and promote a sustainable quality of life in North Central Illinois and beyond.

Our Vision

A healthy planet with communities that provide a deeply satisfying place to live.

So how do we work?

We explore ideas, community strengths, needs, and opportunities to create models for positive community change which can be replicated in other places.

  • We organize and promote networks “from the bottom up” to increase community capacities. 

  • We engage stakeholders with complementary abilities, skills, resources, and expertise.  

  • We evaluate activities for qualitative and quantitative outcomes and impact; for what participants learn as well as what they do.   

Meet the Team