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Create a better michigan!Together, let's build local-based solutions for environment, economy, and community.
Groundwork Center Programs Help You
Create a better michigan!Together, let's build local-based solutions for environment, economy, and community.
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Little Traverse Bay Bands created Ziibimijwang Farm in large part to help achieve food sovereignty and expand the use of traditional foods. “You can’t call yourself sovereign unless you grow your own food,” says Joe Van Alstine, a former chair of Ziibimijwang's board.
Rosebud is currently Co-Director, Education and Engagement for Keep Growing Detroit. She is an enrolled Citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, recognized descendant of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and Eastern Shawnee Tribe of OK and Purepecha peoples.
Groundwork has partnered with LTBB in areas of food access and food education.
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE. We think you believe that too.
LET'S MAKE REAL CHANGE
We Understand
It is frustrating to want the best for our Michigan but not have the time, skill set, and team to make the change you see we need.
We Have Solutions
People like you have allowed Groundwork to design and implement local-based solutions that have tackled big problems and strengthened our environment, our economy, and our communities for 25 years.
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"We are so fortunate to have such a resourceful, competent, and impactful advocate for positive change in Northern Michigan."
— Skip Pruss, former director of the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth
BRINGING ABOUT LASTING CHANGE TOGETHER
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2. We CREATE AND IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE AND EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS
3. TOGETHER WE build the Michigan we BOTH want to see
NEWS FROM
Our Better World
Broad Populist Opposition Slows Snyder-Enbridge Tunnel Deal
Business leaders and concerned citizens from across the political spectrum lobbied the Michigan Legislature on November 27 to convince them to halt the progress of the poorly conceived bill SB 1197 that would have the Mackinac Bridge Authority oversee an Enbridge oil tunnel in the Straits.
Strength in Working Together
A look at five Farm to School programs in Charlevoix County that have been helped along by donations from the Charlevoix County Community Foundation. (Alice Waters called one a national model!)
A Big Groundwork Thanksgiving Day Thank-You to Kim Pontius, Our 2018 Milliken Award Recipient
On this Thanksgiving Day, join us in sending a heartfelt thank-you to Kim Pontius, CEO of Traverse Area Association of Realtors and Groundwork 2018 Milliken Award recipient. We ask him to reflect on the Grand Vision, a planning effort he played a big role in, now that nearly a decade has passed since its completion.
