Our Mission
Generating Resources & Organizing for Wellness (GROW) Lincoln Heights strives to generate abundance and wellness for Lincoln Heights community members experiencing language, food, racial, economic, environmental, and health injustices. We achieve this by educating, feeding, and securing resources for the community to center collective prosperity and community preservation. We foster reciprocal and ancestral land stewardship and community relations and build mutual aid networks among Lincoln Heights’ diverse community members to promote resilience and solidarity for and throughout our community.
To support our community’s collective autonomy, prosperity, and stability, GROW Lincoln Heights strives to:
Enhance Lincoln Heights’ food sovereignty by preserving and sharing local knowledge, distributing food and direct aid resources, and expanding local food production through a decentralized system of home growers and new community garden spaces.
Improve the environmental quality of the Lincoln Heights community by increasing access to quality parks and open spaces and seeking nature-based and community-led solutions to chronic pollution burdens.
We strive to ensure unrestricted park access for all local community members regardless of their able-ness, improve park amenities and resources, provide nature-based educational programming to community youth and families, protect open spaces and natural resources from urban development, and find solutions to reducing the impact of chronic air pollution and soil impaction along industrial corridors of the community.
Promote community-based economic development and upward socioeconomic mobility for Lincoln Heights residents by supporting community-serving legacy small businesses, street vendors, and new community-owned businesses and by securing or protecting community-owned rent-stabilized affordable housing and business spaces for community members who face eviction or increasing rent prices.
Provide Lincoln Heights community members with educational and recreational programming through artistic and creative workshops that promote physical, mental, and spiritual wellness to enhance intergenerational and intercultural relations.
