A social enterprise coffee shop hiring local residents and providing a space for community relationship building around good coffee and food.
Rising Grinds Café (RGC) is dedicated to becoming Grand Rapids’ best community-based coffee shop. Our social enterprise model utilizes business to meet community and social needs. This start-up challenges and breaks social barriers, creating a place where every guest and employee feels recognized, welcomed, and valued. Located in the Madison Square neighborhood of Grand Rapids, MI, RGC is the only specialty coffee shop in the city committed to seeing millionaires and urban youth both equally comfortable to relax, be themselves and connect over coffee.