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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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Our Better World
Aimée Christensen to Keynote Michigan Clean Energy Conference
Aimée Christensen, founder and executive director of the Sun Valley Institute, CEO of Christensen Global Strategies, and globally respected clean energy innovator will be a keynote speaker at Groundwork’s Michigan Clean Energy Conference, May 17–19, 2020.
Powerful Connections! Michigan Clean Energy Leaders Project
The Michigan Clean Energy Leaders project has set out to build networks of young professionals who will help drive Michigan’s carbon-free future.
Food Access: The Farm to Neighbor Program Puts Healthy, Locally Grown Food on Pantry Shelves
Food is most nutritious and delicious when it’s fresh from the farm, and that’s what food pantry customers receive through the Farm to Neighbor program.
