Lisa Freeman: Healing Community through Urban Gardening Posted on November 5, 2020 by Grounded Strategies Who is Lisa Freeman? A “badass social worker” of 35+ years. Founder and CEO of the Manchester Growing Together Farm. Founder and Proprietor of the Freeman Family Farm. “Unbought and unbossed,” just like her hero, Shirley Chisolm. Lisa is a soldier for the people at heart. “Everything I say is what I mean. If I said it, I’mma stand up to it.” “I’m not a friend of politicians because I call them out, I look for ways to be on…Read More
Returning Vacant Land to Productive Use Connecting local residents with resources regarding property stewardship, acquisition, and ownership through various models. Hear from a representative of the County's Vacant Property Recovery Program and Attorney Wayne Cobb.Read More
Flowers Avenue GSI Planting Come help Grounded and residents of the Hazelwood community finish the green stormwater infrastructure implementation in Hazelwood. This day will focus on planting, mulching and adding protective fencing around small shrubs. Come help us make a difference in the lives of our neighbors!Read More
Help Build a Rain Garden! Help Grounded Strategies build a rain garden. During this event, we will be focussing on de-sodding, earthmoving, and planting so come ready to get muddy with Grounded!Read More
Stormwater Runoff Round Table Come learn about the issues surrounding stormwater runoff, sanitary sewage overflow, and the impact they have on your community. The purpose of this event is to get families motivated about taking care of their communities through education about stormwater runoff and how community members can get involved.Read More
Permaculture Design: Ecological Solutions to Planetary Problems Posted on July 22, 2019 by [email protected] For the purposes of sorting out the issues our world currently faces and quelling the fires which threaten to consume us there is one system of ethics that seems particularly well suited. This system, developed from the synthesis of indigenous wisdom about Earth systems and modern best practices in the management of human populations is called Permaculture. Coined by Bill Mollison, the term permaculture is a combination of the words permanent and agriculture (or culture). However, it is an approach…Read More
Hilltop Community Unity Land Lab Come one; Come All! To Celebrate Community Unity at the Grape Street Garden in the rear of Carnegie Library of Knoxville. We will have free games, prizes, and good times in the garden! Free Food and Free community resource tips from professionals and guides provided. Bring the children out for an evening of fun and education. #LandLabisLand Goodness!Read More
THINC30 Tank: Ensuring Inclusive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Lend your voice and insights to help create a tool that can be used to regularly check up on the health of Pittsburgh's 90 unique neighborhoods at our first 2019 THINC30 Tank: Ensuring Inclusive Pittsburgh Neighborhoods. Over the last two years, Pittsburgh’s business, civic and community leaders have joined us at our THINC30 summits to learn how they may help advance the 17 global UN Sustainable Development Goals here locally and create a thriving, robust region for everyone. Last year,…Read More
Free NorthSide Land Lab Come to the Free Northside Land Lab Hosted at the Colab 18 for a great time! We will dine and have a discussion around advocacy, participatory budgets, and forming peoples assemblies. If you have an idea or a suggestion for your local councilman and women in regards to the "Vacant Land Epidemic" Please RSVP to attend the sessions 412-361-2099.Read More
Celebrating Black Community Stewards Posted on March 21, 2019 by [email protected] The work Grounded does stretches over the broad landscape of Allegheny County, but we recognize a large amount of vacancy is condensed in certain neighborhoods throughout the region. We have been fortunate to have strong partners in all of the work that we do and we could not be successful in making a community impact without community. There are so many individuals and organizations that we work with who are making a positive impact in their own neighborhoods, but for…Read More
Nonprofit Board Diversity Intitaive Workshop II Join us! At this event, Urban Kind will host a dozen nonprofit organizations including their board presidents, and or other long-standing board members alongside the executive director to meet with small groups of members of the Black Environmental Collective who are interested in learning more about that organization. Each organization will have 2, 45 minute sessions to engage potential board members. If you are available and interested. Please click here to register to participate. To ensure that everyone has adequate time…Read More
Another Night Out w/ The Black Environmental Collective Another Night Out w/ The Black Environmental Collective Have fun and networking with folks with interests in environmental, food, climate, and health issues. This is an invitation for you to join us for a follow-up event to our now legendary Night Out event at Arnold's Tea in November. We're doing it again. Only bigger and better. We're keeping the same band, Artistree, and moving it to a larger venue that will also accommodate other rooms for networking conversations. Click here to…Read More