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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
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NEWS FROM
Our Better World
Announcing Executive Director Recruitment Search
[Download a pdf of the Executive Director Position Profile] Hello Readers, Hello. This is Cheryl Hutchinson, Board Chair of Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. Today I'm sharing one of the most important emails ever sent in the 29 years that Groundwork...
Making Room for Solar Pays Off
By Peter Sinclair // As the Clean Energy Transition progresses, one of the questions most often asked is “How much land will be necessary for development of solar energy?” An ambitious build out of utility scale solar in Michigan would require about 2.5 percent of our...
Sustainable Ways, Resilient Outcomes, Thriving Tomorrows
Sustainable ways. Resilient outcomes. Thriving tomorrows.A few weeks back, on Earth Day, Groundwork finished out its 29th year of bringing sustainable ways and resilient outcomes to this beautiful state in the heart of our Great Lakes.I know people can feel uneasy...
