While big business might have the capacity, we believe that small businesses are positioned to understand and navigate in ways better suited for change, given the proximity to people. It is through listening to and building consensus around the needs of people who live in an area that can bring about improvements that matter to a community.

Over the years, we have found ourselves interested in and involved in issues that are critical to our neighbors. More recently, we started to ask: How can we engage with more intent around the issues we see around us? How might we build a space or a platform that allows us to affect topics like trash, shootings, and better understanding of local politics? We found ourselves yearning to organize, but not in the traditional way — we wanted to be off the grid, off of social media, and free of the destabilizing effects of outside influence.

Most people want to be safe. Most people want peaceful, healthy communities for themselves, and all of the generations to come.

But safety needs to come from mutual respect and concern for each other. We need to revitalize the connections we have to one another in the community so that we can collectively challenge our political and social leaders to push for the changes our neighborhoods deserve.

So to play our part in jumpstarting that movement, we have created Grandchamps Community Action. We aim to provide resources, local programming and events, and an online platform to support community effort for the people by the people. We hope to build a network of businesses, passionate individuals and groups who will further campaigns that will help our community. 

To build this movement, we have both guiding principles and organizational efforts that we use to direct our efforts and support issue resolution for the neighborhood.

By coming together, we can see the future possibilities of our communities and live in alignment. We can create the movement to deliver change - transforming the way we engage and support access to a quality life for all. We hope you will walk with us.

BREAKING BREAD AND SHARING STORIES

To create change, we need to have alliances and build understanding with each other.

But inequalities and oppression both systematically and socially have prevented us from hearing the narratives of our neighbors in their own voices.

The sharing of stories, culture, creativity and joy with some good tunes, good food and great company can help us to expand our sense of self within the context of our community, and lead to a better quality of life.

Breaking cycles of oppression, demystifying struggle, pain and strength is hard, destabilizing work that needs to be done.

DEVELOPMENTS ACTIONS AND APPLIED THEORY

Community of creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, community organizers, magical beings, makers, dreamers and more!

Testimonials that allow for people to celebrate and amplify their stories of courage, struggle and being to give greater context to the diaspora that make up the fabric of our community.

Platform that will be aimed at supporting crowd-sourced Advocacy to promote quality of life at a neighborhood level working with community members, businesses and organizers to bring solutions, improvements, shared responsibility.

As we work with community businesses, it is important to make sure that our neighbors and employees are receiving the right kinds of materials that will help to steer and communicate the ways that we believe we can bring about success for our initiatives.

Our resources page is a great place for you to download materials and graphics to use to promote community-centric philosophies as well as promote collaborative systems for issue resolution in our neighborhood.

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