rooted. | issue 1
MEASURING WHAT TRULY MATTERS
Every neighborhood carries stories waiting to be heard and gifts waiting to be recognized. Some are visible in the ways neighbors gather, build, and care for one another. Others live quietly in lived experience, creativity, resilience, and wisdom passed hand to hand. When attention is paid, when listening is practiced with care, these gifts begin to surface. The Community Ambassador work in Indianapolis begins with a simple, grounding practice. Paying attention to what is already here. It starts with listening to neighbors, noticing their gifts, and allowing relationships to guide what becomes possible next. This is the heart of an abundance based approach. Not abundance as excess, but abundance as recognition. The belief that every person carries gifts, and that when those gifts are seen, connected, and supported, communities begin to shape their own futures. In this work, relationships are treated as infrastructure. Trust, time, proximity, and social networks are not secondary to impact. They are the foundation of it. Change is understood not as something delivered to a community, but something cultivated alongside it.
SCAN TO WATCH COMMUNITY MEMBERS NAME WHAT BRINGS THEM JOY AT BLACK: A FESTIVAL OF JOY. AMBASSADORS WILDSTYLE AND LE ’ DEANA ARE BOARD MEMBERS FOR THIS EVENT.
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