Grandchamps Community Action
Amplify voices and foster a healthy neighborhood
Creating a blueprint for responsive businesses
Community engagement with a focus on needs
Respect for the experiences of the underserved
“Grandchamps is committed to our community. We are committed to supporting the voices and the safety of its people. ”
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.
Guiding Principles
No political affiliations, no endorsements
Community-informed approach to human-centric outcomes
A commitment to creating and maintaining a safe, anonymous space for dialogue
Partnership and rejuvenation from within our community
areas of focus
Sharing Stories - Testimonies aimed collective healing
Breaking Bread - Reaching common ground through food
Advocacy - Support resolution to quality of life issues
Awareness - Promote a safe and inclusive community
Now more than any other time in the history of our country, we need to find more ways to come together and educate ourselves and others on how we see the future of our communities. We want this to be just a start of a movement to bring change through reengaging businesses to support our colleagues, employees and neighbors.
We are taking the first step - we hope you will walk with us.