The Nest

03/18/2026

Person-Centered Care 🖤 Autonomy & Dignity
These are not ideals, they are promises. When someone signs up for our mental health Peer Support services, we meet them where they’re at and center the work on
✔️ their experiences
✔️ their needs
✔️ their vision of recovery

Because although we have important, relevant lived experience, our participants are the experts of their own healthcare needs.

We are currently able to help the community on a small scale, completely volunteer-run. But Lansing is ready for more services that bridge the gap between
> isolation or minimal care <
and
> obtaining necessary care and resources <

We’re overdue for expansion and we need your help. Contributing in any way helps us reach new heights!

Not sure how to help? We’ve got you covered:

🎁 Monetary and in-kind donations
Link to our tax-deductible donation page- tinyurl.com/GiveToNest
Or use the contact info below for in-kind gifts.

✏️ Office Move-In Wish List
Help with items needed to quickly start new in-person services.
https://www.target.com/gift-registry/gift/the-nest-2026

🎪 Event Sponsorship
Our annual fundraiser is a great opportunity to contribute to our mission while getting your name out there!
Use the contact info below to discuss sponsorship.

💪🏼 Volunteering
Sign up for the GG newsletter to learn about volunteer opportunities that help save money for our long-term program goals.
https://tinyurl.com/GrassrootsNewsletter

🚀 Sharing Posts and Other Info
Getting the word out about our services & calls for support makes a big difference for our growing program! Help us connect with the greater community so we can serve more people.

🖤 We’re In This Together 🖤

Contact information:
fkanous@gglansing.org
517-614-8986

The Nest is a program of Grassroots Groundwork. Donations are tax-deductible via their fiscal sponsorship with Women's Center of Greater Lansing
Grassroots Groundwork is obtaining its unique nonprofit designation in mid-2026.

03/16/2026

Have you ever navigated mental health crisis? Check this out👇🏼

Our organization is directed and operated exclusively by people with lived experience of having mental illness. The focus of our work is always to lift the voices of people with mental illness and break down barriers that prevent recovery.

Our project IMPACT stands for Info and Mentoring to Prevent Adverse Crisis Transitions. We're collecting feedback about greater Lansing residents' experiences with crisis. Doing so will enable us to...

> Update our existing evidence-based community & professional workshops to include data on local needs as they pertain to mental health crisis
> Better advocate to health systems & first responders for improvements to crisis response
> Upgrade the training we provide our Peer Support staff and volunteers by introducing specific barriers and Social Determinants of Health that commonly cause negative crisis experiences


We want to hear from you! Our IMPACT survey is open for responses in English and in Spanish. We will also have a focus group this spring facilitated by Disability Rights Michigan.

More info and link to survey:
www.gglansing.org/approach/impact

03/14/2026

🎨 Do you create art, upcycle clothes, sell books, manage a dance studio, work at a nonprofit, or anything else family-friendly? Yes? Great! We want you! 🫵

Our 2nd annual KenDucky Derby in Okemos is around the bend! In addition to the rubber duck races, this year we’ll have vendors, face painting, and even more free games with prizes!

Want to be a vendor? ➡️ Info & app here: https://tinyurl.com/DuckyDerbyVendor

03/13/2026

🤩THANK YOU LANSING! We have raised enough funds to move into the Nonprofit Hub!! We're grateful for your support and encouragement.

This new milestone will help us increase our capacity, serve more locals, and become eligible for more grants and accreditations.

Interested in being a part of our capacity building? Here's our Target Wish List with many items we hope will move into the office with us: https://www.target.com/gift-registry/gift/the-nest-2026
>> Items can be shipping or brought to our grand opening party (details coming soon!)

03/09/2026

Tonight!

Our group is for ✨ anyone ✨ who wants to meet other people navigating similar challenges, as well as get guidance and motivational support.

Twice-monthly, Mondays at 7 pm via Google Meet
March meetings are 3/9 and 3/23
April meetings are 4/6 and 4/20

If you are not already registered to get updates on our Peer Support group and to get the meeting link, you can register at
tinyurl.com/NestGroupSignup

03/03/2026

The Nest, a program of Grassroots Groundwork, is working on moving into its first brick & mortar location!
Doing so will...
✓ Enable us to deliver more [free might we add] Peer Support services in-person
✓ Create further opportunities to collaborate with other organizations in the area
✓ Allow us to have more in-person staff meetings and community trainings
✓ Make us eligible for more grants and accreditations ..among several other benefits.

Friends, we are looking for donations that will make these achievements come to life. We appreciate any amount, or even a share of this post to get the word out!
Donations can be made at:
https://tinyurl.com/GiveToNest

Grassroots Groundwork is fiscally sponsored by Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. This enables us to receive tax-deductible contributions while we work on getting our own nonprofit designation.

Milestones like these can be hard to fulfill, but we are confident that we'll get by with a little help from our friends!

Sincerely,
The Nest

03/02/2026

This week we are celebrating TWO YEARS as a program offering FREE mental health Peer Support services to residents of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties 🥳🎂

But that’s not all! We are celebrating the addition of TWO NEW Peers to help provide these services 🎉🎉

Welcome, Rosie & James! Thanks for joining us 💙

Help us celebrate!
🖍️ Drop a comment to welcome our new Peers
🚀 Share this post to take the party as far across FB as possible

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us and who believes in the power of harnessing lived experience to make an impact on the lives of others.
Without you, The Nest doesn’t thrive. We’re In This Together!

02/28/2026

Our group is for ✨ anyone ✨ who wants to meet other people navigating similar challenges, as well as get guidance and motivational support.

Twice-monthly, Mondays at 7 pm via Google Meet
March meetings are 3/9 and 3/23
April meetings are 4/6 and 4/20

If you are not already registered to get updates on our Peer Support group and the meeting link, you can register at
tinyurl.com/NestGroupSignup

02/27/2026

Happy Black History Month 🖤🤎 People who use any kind of personal experience to help others are an asset to the community. For our final BHM post, we are spotlighting a person of color whose lived experience covers multiple areas of personal challenges & marginalization, and whose commitment to helping the greater Lansing area deserves much recognition.

Khadja Erickson uses their lived experience to help residents battling addiction, homelessness, and racial injustice. They are profoundly effective at uncovering the harsh reality our unhoused neighbors endure, and work tirelessly to provide direct mutual aid to some of Lansing’s most vulnerable residents. They are the Executive Director of Mid-Michigan Tenant Resource Center, the Housing Chair of NAACP Lansing Chapter, and are on the Board of Directors for our parent organization, Grassroots Groundwork.

Khadja is an inspiration and is paving the way for organizations like ours to do similar work.

If you know an incredible person of color who has used their lived experience to help others, give them a shoutout in the comments!

02/24/2026

Coming May 31! Our 2nd annual fundraiser for The Nest:
the KenDucky Derby!

This family-friendly event could win you a $50 Meijer gift card at one of several races! We bring the ducks, you bring the tennis shoes, because you’ll be chasing your duck 400 yards around the bend of the Red Cedar River!

🚨We’re ISO sponsors and vendors!🚨

Vendors can sell merchandise or goodies, be nonprofits or businesses, and beyond! There is space for 10 vendors! Vendor fee is $25.

Sponsors have the opportunity to have their business, nonprofit, or foundation name & logo appear on advertisements, The Nest brochures and website, and even on a sprawling banner for attendees to see!

Sponsoring helps us ensure the basic costs of the event are covered so we can focus on raising funds to continue providing FREE mental health Peer Support services to tri-county residents. All donations are tax-deductible 🎉


Sponsorship packages:

✨ $25 Got any grapes?
Get your name on a rubber duck!

✨ $100 Making a splash!
…and make it onto the event advertising!

✨ $200 And the Runner Up is…
The newest addition to our brochures (you!)

and

✨ $500 The Platinum Duck ✨
All of the above, with an exclusive mention on our website, and a banner at the event!


Ready to sponsor this event? Or want to be a vendor? Contact fkanous@gglansing.org