About the GGBB Foundation
Social change in the US needs a redesign. GGBB Foundation is asking the question: “What is really missing?” The answer is: learning balance and beauty through real estate, health, and finance. And we’re starting right where we live— in Hudson, New York.
GGBB Foundation works to radically change our current social contracts, replacing them with equity-based opportunities. We teach community by building real equity with many forms of capital: financial, intellectual, experiential, spiritual, and social. We establish a whole new set of rules on how to do business with people, planet, and profits—in that order.
GGBB is looking for StarSEED partnerships and funding for fruition of this idea.
Beauty, balance, and compassion are at the heart of everything we do.
Our values:
Radical integrity
Radical transparency
Intersectional inclusivity
Our areas of practice:
Culture
Social advocacy and justice
Sustainability
Human-centered technology
Cy Melina-Kai Lauz, “GG Melina”
About the Founder, GG Melina
A social entrepreneur on the cutting edge
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GGBB Foundation founder, GG Melina (Cy Melina-Kai Lauz), is a social entrepreneur, designer, and activist based in the Hudson Valley of New York.
Melina’s passion is creating innovative solutions to social challenges. In 2013, she became a global viral sensation when she launched Chrysalis Lingerie, the world's first underwear brand for transgender women. Chrysalis Lingerie was also the first niche indy-fashion brand with an integral social component for LGBTQ advocacy.
Ms. Lauz, alongside 100 other notable women, is featured in the New York Times best seller, "In The Company of Women", for her entrepreneurial innovation and transgender and human-rights work. Melina has also been featured in Fashionista, Design Sponge, Huffington Post, Style Network, and Buzzfeed.
Orphaned as an infant, Melina immigrated to Jersey City as a first generation Filipino immigrant. Growing up in the most diverse city in America, she saw first hand how socially conscious innovation can change the course of a life.