Change doesn't happen to communities. It starts inside them.
For over 25 years, Groundswell has worked alongside Bronx residents, schools, faith communities, and organizations — building the skills, relationships, and shared vision needed to create cultures that heal.
Who We Are
Groundswell began in the Bronx in the late 1990s as a grassroots effort to help communities build the tools for lasting peace. More than 25 years later, we work alongside residents, faith communities, schools, and healthcare organizations across New York City. We offer training, mediation, and capacity-building programs that equip people to transform the cultures they live and work in.
We don't come in with answers. We come in with skills, relationships, and a deep belief that every community already holds the seeds of its own healing.
Our mission: to collaborate with communities to co-create cultures that are just, peaceful, and healthy.