Kung Fu BBQ To Benefit Tricycle
Kung Fu BBQ to Benefit Tricycle Local meatsmiths JM Stock Provisions, based out of Charlottesville & Richmond, are teaming up The Veil Brewing and Brooklyn’s The Meat Hook for a fundraiser benefiting Tricycle Urban Ag this Saturday. The event, dubbed “Kung Fu BBQ”, will feature a unique menu of Chinese-inspired barbecue prepared by JM Stock and […]
Shalom Farms Grows Deeper Roots
By John Haddad Shalom Farms, initially established as a pilot project of United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond in 2009, has rapidly grown into a multifaceted nonprofit improving access to healthy food for everyone. Last year alone, the group logged 1,677 educational visits and 4,547 volunteer visits, and farm volunteers invested a total of 12,436 […]
One Richmond
Hello Grid readers. Since being elected mayor of this great city, I’d like to share some of my objectives to lead a city that grows and prospers as “One Richmond,” a theme I incorporated in both my campaign and now in my new administration. My immediate objectives include bringing accountability to City Hall, an initiative […]
A Town that Prints Together
Climbing into the driver’s seat of a bright-green steamroller, Ashley Hawkins starts the engine and engages the clutch. With a singlewide roll at the front, Hawkins moves the heavy equipment forward with a cheer from onlookers. This was the scene on September 13, 2013 as Hawkins hauled her first steamroller off the lot of Sunbelt […]
Art Happens Here
Change is constant at 2016 Staples Mill Road. It was once Colonial Grocery. Then it was a beauty school. And from there, a mixed-use building that peddled everything from mattresses to flooring. For the past 13 years, the property, however, has served one purpose: the home base for Crossroads Art Center, a growing clearinghouse for […]
The Richmond Cycling Corps Story
Nonprofit organizations are essentially non-sustainable business models. The outreach/charitable cause is often approached and delivered as a commodity instead of a product. And most nonprofit organizations continue to operate in a disempowered manner—meaning they completely rely on the generosity of others (donations) to fulfill their missions. When I launched Richmond Cycling Corps as a nonprofit, […]
To All our Richmond Working Moms
As working moms, we shoulder a variety of pressures from different sources. And these pressures sometimes result in conflicting emotions that bring awareness to the logistical and emotional trials these roles can bring. It can be a hard road to go down, that is why working moms need to find something every day that can […]
Gather Here
“You can’t print at a coffee shop,” jokes Duke Dodson, one of the five owners of Gather, the new co-working space at 4th and Main Streets. “That’s what we’re hanging our hat on.” The 23,000-square-foot complex at 409 E. Main St., teeming on the edge of full-blown business incubator, opened this spring, and since then […]
The Region’s Best StartUps
To understand the significance of Tenant Turner being named the Region’s Next Best Start-Up at the i.e.* Start-Up Competition finale, you must first take yourself back to the 2008 housing crisis. Many homes were bought at the height of their value and quickly toppled alongside the housing bubble. To make up for lost ground, many […]
RVA Creativity Awards
It was a Tuesday night and a gaggle of C3 board members were beginning to gather for their monthly meeting. Some arrived fresh from the office, others fresh from their latest creative pursuit. Carl Johnson arrived with an idea. Shortly into the meeting he pitched it. The concept was simple, but the impact was lasting. Richmonders have […]