Empowering Youth To Reach Their Full Potential
New City Café
Our café serves delicious wood fired pizzas, baked goods and more while allowing us to train our youth on farm-to-table goodness.
New City Farm
New City Farm grows delicious food, but its purpose is more than just feeding people. For almost a decade, New City Neighbors has been working hard in the Northeast side of Grand Rapids to positively impact our community. The farm’s main objective is to provide job and life skills to high school youth in our neighborhood. Each summer we employ and train 10-15 high school students. Student employees learn all aspects of the hard work of organic vegetable growing. Student employees also participate in curriculum around job skills, food justice, anti-racism and food & faith.
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Our Events/Activities page is updated with Voluneteer days and upcoming events. Visit this page to learn about what New City Neighbors is planning next.
Get Involved
New City Neighbors has a variety of volunteer and employment opportunities. Are you a high-schooler looking for your first job, or a college student looking for an internship? Do you want to volunteer with handing out fresh veggies or enjoy digging in the dirt? Or maybe your calling is to work with youth and agriculture. We’re ready for you. Click the button below.
Invest In Youth
New City Neighbors has shown me what a truly kind, encouraging and happy work environment looks like and I hope to continue working here for years to come.
Being in a diverse environment, getting to learn different things about different people and building new relationships… I used to be a self centered person, but being here has opened up my eyes and my heart to different people.
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