by Brandon Mercer | Mar 23, 2024 | blog
Board member Brandon Mercer wrote this poem for GRIP’s annual meeting in 2024, reflecting on what GRIP’s work can mean for a person facing hunger and homelessness. “Soup” The evening fog cuts like a knife, Icy droplets slowly bleed away life...
by Brandon Mercer | Mar 23, 2024 | blog
Board member Brandon Mercer wrote this poem after walking past a man whose entire home was a six-foot square of damp, cold concrete with bedding and belongs spread across the sidewalk. When Mercer walked past the same spot a few hours later, the scene had changed from...
by Brandon Mercer | Mar 23, 2024 | events, Featured, Front Page
The fireside room at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, looking out as the sun set behind rainclouds over the West County region provided the perfect perspective to celebrate GRIP’s year. The annual meeting and reception on February 29th recognized...
by Brandon Mercer | Jan 29, 2024 | blog, events, Featured, Front Page, News
While GRIP may have to do an annual meeting every year, no one says it has to be bureaucratic and indoors. Join us on Leap Day, Thursday, February 29th from 5:30pm-7pm, for the most spectacular sunset views in the Bay Area, on the terrace at the Unitarian Universalist...
by Brandon Mercer | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, blog, front gallery, Front Page
When people think of a “board of directors” they might imagine an illustrious cabal of gray-haired old men in three-piece suits, maybe seated in leather swivel chairs in a wood paneled office, aka “the Board Room,” making plans, the smell of...