What's Good in Garfield Park!?! - Rite To Wellness Radio

What's Good in Garfield Park, Ep. 19

Episode Summary

Check out another informative broadcast focusing in on healing and entrepreneurship in the hood.

Episode Notes

8:00 Monday, November 28th Cardio-kickboxing 6:30 at the Golden Dome

9:25 QLP Committee Dinner/ Dialogue engaging the Garfield Park stakeholders discussed topics like who can we forgive, and whose hand can we shake to make Garfield Park a better community? The active need to heal, involves release and surrender in order to have better. To have what you want, you have to open up and be vulnerable. Authentic community work requires permanence and vulnerability.

17:27 Go to VisionforGarfieldPark.com to register for Citizen Lab to contribute what you want to see in Garfield Park.

18:00 The Sankofa Village team is still advancing toward receiving the Chicago Prize money.

22:20 The K--We want to fertilize people's dreams, Christyn Freemon

39:40 Project forward has been maintaining a resource guide for business owners to receive grants and business loans.

45:35 Most Black business owners are also social entrepreneurs.

50:30 Chi Block Builder Program: Reflect on our Past, Reclaim our Present, Reimagine our Future. Making land sale purchases more efficient and aligning with community priorities in Affordable Housing, Market Rate Housing, Side Yards, Open Space, and Commercial Development. The applications close in early February 2023. For more info: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/block-builder/home.html

58:20 Who gets priority when purchasing this land?

`1:02:00 Check out the Sound Man's beats, and if you are interested in purchasing any buildwithus@gprwc.org.