What is #2023GRSummit?
The Grand Rapids Neighborhood Summit is a transformational day-long learning experience centered around Summit’s core values of resident voice and racial equity. Summit brings Grand Rapids residents and stakeholders together to learn, strategize and connect to strengthen neighborhoods and belonging in community, with the overall goal to make Grand Rapids a more equitable place to live, work and play.
This year’s theme is Your City, Your Voice: Co-Creating Belonging with workshops to align with topics of belonging and inclusion, local efforts and promising practices that advance justice and/or social cohesion, and community collaboration to address issues affecting our City. This theme was inspired in part by our community’s desire to have our voices heard and work together to create sustained change.
Summit continues to be one of the most diverse learning events in Grand Rapids across race, ethnicity, gender identity, and age, and appreciation for this inclusive space consistently ranks as one of the top themes of event evaluations each year. Summit brings people together from all walks of life, lived experience, 33 neighborhoods and from so many different sectors ranging from corporations to grassroots movements, from early childhood to higher education, from government and business to nonprofits.
Another theme of evaluations is appreciation of the positive & welcoming vibe throughout the day! We are excited to build upon this energy and diversity in 2023, and host approximately 400 in-person attendees. Additional highlights include Spanish workshops, childcare for infants to five-year-olds, Kids Summit for six- to 12-year-olds, a teen workshop track for those age 13 years of age and older, and a celebration at Roberto Clemente Park immediately following Summit featuring BIPOC Night Market, music, refreshments, and appetizers.
Grand Rapids Neighborhood Summit
Saturday, May 20, 2023
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
GRCC Leslie E. Tassel M-TEC
Community Celebration featuring BIPOC Night Market
immediately following until 7 p.m.
at Roberto Clemente Park