With all eight Grand Legacy Group partners having endured humble beginnings and navigating through life with facing the disadvantages that most black Americans face, we are as equally passionate about social justice, equality and community empowerment. Grand Legacy Group is striving to create meaningful connections with people; particularly aiming to connect and serve as motivation and inspiration for underserved communities. As entrepreneurs, we want to represent how there can be success in black business ownership and promote positive changes, economic growth, comradery and support for a variety of social causes within the community.
Both individually and collectively, we at Grand Legacy Group genuinely understand the importance of philanthropy. Though it is our business mission to create a positively unique recreational and medical-based cannabis experience in effort to break the negative stigma associated with marijuana, it is our social mission to be highly engaged in the community through philanthropic efforts including but not limited to, monetary donations, volunteering time and support for a variety of social causes including education, health, public safety, science and human rights. In simple terms it is an opportunity to give back to people and/or a community that may not have access to the resources available to us as business owners. As mentioned earlier, all eight of us come from very humble beginnings; from the west side of Chicago, to the south side of Chicago, from the “Hill” in Joliet, as well as other “resource deprived areas,” and we know how much a little love and compassion can mean to realizing one’s dreams. So the opportunity to bless those in similar, and in some instances, worse situations from which we have arisen, is not only a privilege, but a duty and responsibility. Philanthropy is more than just giving money, it is the giving of “your time, your talent, and your treasure.” Not only have we made monetary donations to several worthy causes/organizations, such as homeless shelters, back to school events, and various other community sponsored events, we also have donated our time and our talents. We have served food at homeless shelters as well as help build a community garden on the south side of Chicago. Giving back is not just what we do but…it’s who we are!
Grand Legacy Group will also diligently work to bring jobs to the community to help promote economic growth and community enrichment. Sometimes all people need is an opportunity. In certain neighborhoods and communities, great opportunities may be far and few in between so we also strive to provide those job opportunities to people of different backgrounds, ethnicities, beliefs, and orientation. As an organization that embraces diversity and inclusion, this level of engaging gives everyone involved the chance to learn from one another and take the best parts from everyone for the betterment of the entire organization. There is a tremendous amount of diversity within our local community that we are able to tap into, provide opportunities, so they in turn can pour back into the community in which they live. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved.
