Residents, community organizers and leaders on Grandville Avenue are experiencing their neighborhood change as development comes in. Here we discuss how interdependent relationships are most effective when power is shared.
We mourn the loss of Samariz Hernandez Cruz, mother, daughter, and friend to many on Grandville Avenue.
We had the privilege to be invited to share a meal among residents of Grandville Avenue hosted at the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood Association.
Dominga Lucas, es un miembro de nuestra comunidad en la Avenida de Grandville. Aqui, para todos nosotros es muy importante el atender el clamor de los indigenas que viven en nuestra vencidad, quienes estan confrontando graves limitantes en cubrir las necesidades basicas, ya que no existen los recursos en su idioma de origen.
Welcome to the On the Ground GR. For 12 weeks, this series will highlight and celebrate the communities found touching Grandville Avenue of Grand Rapids.
Feliciano Paredes has teamed up with Xiamoei Huang to develop Ag Help, a free phone application connecting farm workers with employment, housing, and resources.
Learn about the people who are mobilizing, living and working on the southeast community of Grand Rapids in our On The Ground Video celebrating the threads connecting these communities to each other.
What is your income? Where do you live? What color is your skin? These questions shouldn't matter when it comes to getting food. But they do, and residents and organizers in southeast Grand Rapids are working to change this by providing equitable access to affordable and healthy food for everyone.
Rebeca Velazques-Publes, a resident of the southeast neighborhood, shares how making Grand Rapids a welcoming city has, for her, involved building an intentional community and raising awareness of the ways people of color are excluded in the area.
In Grand Rapids, black women are being diagnosed with breast cancer at higher rates than white women. Their diagnoses are coming at later stages of the cancer due to a lack of access to preventative screenings and ability to afford treatment. Educators, residents and advocates in the southeast neighborhood of Grand Rapids are taking charge to address these disparities and bring about systemic change in healthcare for black residents.
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