Mission and Vision
We build environments of curiosity and creativity with _______?
Who are our neighbors?
This is how many Key Characteristics GAAH has.
What is three?
Although we welcome ALL of our neighbors, it is one of our critical actions to engage these neighbors specifically.
Who are youth?
GAAH operates these two facilities.
What are the Cook Arts Center and the Cook Library Center?
GAAH's new contractor who just joined as our first ever Impact Strategist.
Who is Danielle LaPorte?
We build environments of _____ and _____ with our neighbors?
This phrase signals that we are willing to lean into discomfort to better understand each other and those we serve.
What is eager to learn and unlearn?
For GAAH this means we help make things work for our neighbors by challenging systems, cultural norms, and personal biases.
What is calling out injustice?
These are the two neighborhoods that GAAH focuses on. Anyone who lives in or goes to school in these neighborhoods can participate in GAAH programming for free.
What are Roosevelt Park and the Black Hills?
Determining the mission and purpose of GAAH, hiring and evaluating the CEO, ensuring effective planning, protecting GAAH's assets, ensuring legal and ethical integrity, and providing financial oversight are all examples of this.
What is the work of the Board of Directors?
We build environments of curiosity and creativity with our neighbors to cultivate this.
What are inclusion and justice?
This means that we build trust and community by taking responsibility for our actions even when good intentions have negative consequences.
What is being accountable to the team?
We express and celebrate the things that bring joy, and also the good in others and situations. This is the definition of this critical action.
What is share joy?
This program takes place at both of our facilities and runs throughout the entire year.
What is Teen Leaders?
This is the number of people who sit on the GAAH Board of Directors.
What is twelve?
This is GAAH's mission.
We build environments of curiosity and creativity with our neighbors to cultivate inclusion and justice.
These are GAAH's three Key Characteristics.
What are
Eager to learn and unlearn.
Accountable to the team.
and Committed to the neighborhood?
These are GAAHs three critical actions.
What are engaging with youth, calling out injustice and sharing joy?
Summer Arts and Learning, Cook Library Summer Camp and Girls Rock! Grand Rapids are these?
What are GAAH's three summer programs?
GAAH's board treasurer
Who is Scott Harris?
We envision a flourishing neighborhood where people embody liberation, self-determination, self-expression, connection, and this.
What is joy?
Being committed to the neighborhood is one of our Key Characteristics, and it means that we cultivate a flourishing neighborhood by practicing this.
What is reciprocity and listening well?
Along with Care and Belonging, these are the other two of GAAH's three strategies that we implement across our programs.
What are Discovery and Advocacy?
These are the 4 programs that GAAH offers during the school year.
GAAH's two most recent additions to our board of directors.
Who are Brock Nanninga and Betsy Zandstra?