Grand Rapids Alliance of Cooperative Communities - GRACC

The Grand Rapids Alliance of Cooperative Communities fosters a framework for creation, growth, and connection. We seek to connect our member/ owners to their local community and to the global cooperative community. As individuals, we aim to grow collectively from every partnership. Together, we live intentionally in a way that helps to grow our communities into healthy and sustainable environments that blur the lines between life, work, and play.

We achieve all this by creating outlets for equitable, affordable, and democratic lifestyles. In the end, we fight for the chance to create the world we want to see and celebrate the opportunity to do it together.

This year (2015) we will purchase our house from James R. Jones, our namesake and benevolent landlord. Jim was born in Grand Rapids and has dedicated his life to empowering groups and individuals by furthering the cooperative profile across the country and around the world. He has helped to start over 20 co-ops, served as the General Manager of NASCO (http://nasco.coop/), and continues to work as a cooperative housing advisor now that he is "retired" with a group he helped start called Collective Seeds Consulting Co-op ( https://www.facebook.com/collectiveseeds).