Groundwork Center Programs Help You
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.
About Our
Homepage Photo
Rosebud Schneider is a manager at Ziibimijwang Farm, owned by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and located near the Mackinac Straits.
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, Chair of Ziibimijwang's board.
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.
"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
BRINGING ABOUT LASTING CHANGE TOGETHER
Our Program Areas
Your support today helps create programs that make a better world
Explore All Programs
Explore All Programs
be a part of something bigger
Our "Take Action Agreement"
1. Make A Donation
2. We CREATE AND IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE AND EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS
3. TOGETHER WE build the Michigan we BOTH want to see
NEWS FROM
Our Better World
What is culinary medicine, anyway?
Above: Lissa and Antonio, of Second Spring Farm, at farmers market. “Culinary Medicine” is becoming more relevant in conversations locally and across the United States. With rising chronic disease rates and persisting food insecurity, the 2022 National Strategy...
Petoskey Student Wins Iconic Michigan Environmental Award—Youngest Ever
I am thrilled to present a closer look at Tommy Skinner, the recipient of the 2023 Petoskey Prize for Environmental Leadership. One of Michigan's iconic environmental awards, it is presented annually by our friends at Lansing-based Michigan Environmental Council....
What’s on Tap for Our September Culinary Medicine Trainings
Since 2014, Groundwork has been hosting gatherings—roughly one every 18 months—to explore and promote the idea of deploying culinary medicine as a way to address some of the most challenging diet-related diseases facing our people as individuals and facing our nation...
