Grow Greater Englewood

Grow Greater Englewood is a social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to develop wellness and wealth. With this X-Grant, Grow Greater Englewood offers a variety of public art and community engagement activities in the summer and fall of 2024, including community dinners, arts performances, and a community arts market.

Grow Greater Englewood is a social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to develop wellness and wealth. Presently the organization is involved in several large-scale initiatives focused on securing input into the utilization of land within the Englewood Community. This general operations award enables the Englewood Community Land Trust, The Englewood Village and Plaza and Market, and the Englewood Nature Trail, which transforms an unused railroad corridor into a 1.75-mile multi-use path.

Grow Greater Englewood is a nonprofit organization that works to build a community in which all people have the opportunity to live safe, happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. It does this through a number of focus areas, including supporting local wealth-building through a business cooperative model, providing community education and advocacy around urban farming and sustainability, and engaging with policymakers to foster greater democratic participation and reduce the harms caused by segregation. Project Perspectives is a scripted virtual reality (VR) media project that will place viewers at the scene of a police-community interaction in Englewood and allow the viewer to view the scene through the eyes, and with the backstories of, different people present. The goal of this project is to generate greater understanding between police and the communities in which they work, by using experience-based narratives to provide greater context to community member interactions with law enforcement.