Good In Greeley is here to share good news, highlight good neighbors, and make it easier to plug into the good happening all over our city.
Written by
Daniel Garcia
7–11 minutes
Welcome To Good In Greeley
Hi, I’m Daniel, and I started Good In Greeley because I know there is more good happening here than shows up in our feeds.
If you live in or around Greeley, you already know the pattern. You care about this place. You know good people doing important work. Yet when you open the news or scroll your phone, you see a steady drip of what is broken, frightening, or frustrating. The hard things are real. They matter. They just are not the whole story.
Good In Greeley exists to help balance the picture.
This site is here to broadcast happiness in a very specific way. Not by pretending nothing is wrong, but by consistently shining a light on the people, projects, and possibilities that are making life in Greeley better, one step at a time.
Good In Greeley exists to help balance the picture.
The goal is simple: when you visit Good In Greeley, you should leave feeling more informed, more hopeful, and more ready to take a small action that makes our community stronger.
Good In Greeley is a positive local news and resources hub built for what I like to call invested neighbors.
Invested neighbors are the people who:
Want to feel proud of where they live
Want to know what is going right, not only what went wrong
Want simple ways to show up, support, volunteer, attend, learn, and connect
If that sounds like you, you are exactly who this site is for.
The goal is simple: when you visit Good In Greeley, you should leave feeling more informed, more hopeful, and more ready to take a small action that makes our community stronger.
To do that, we are starting with three core pieces:
1. Good News Stories About Greeley
First, you will see stories. Real stories about real people in and around Greeley.
A teacher quietly changing the culture in a hallway.
A small business partnering with a nonprofit.
Neighbors organizing something that did not exist before.
Students launching a project that deserves more attention.
These will not be fluff pieces that skip over challenges. They will be grounded, solution oriented stories that focus on what people are doing in response to those challenges.
The inspiration here comes from transformative journalism, and specifically from Michelle Gielan’s Journalist Manifesto and her work in Broadcasting Happiness. The basic idea is powerful and practical:
Do not only amplify what is broken.
Highlight where people are finding solutions and making progress.
Give readers a way to participate in that progress.
When stories are told that way, they do more than inform. They change what people think is possible. They change what people think someone like them can do. That is the kind of storytelling Good In Greeley will keep reaching for.
2. A Community Events Calendar That Helps You Show Up
The second piece is a simple, usable community events calendar.
There are already great things happening in Greeley on any given week, but they are scattered across flyers, social posts, email lists, and word of mouth. If you are not already in the right circles, you may never hear about them.
The events calendar on Good In Greeley will aim to fix that in one small but important way.
You can expect:
Community events and neighborhood gatherings
Arts, culture, and family friendly activities
Business and entrepreneurship happenings
Campus events that welcome the broader community
Volunteer and service opportunities where extra hands are needed
The priority is local and relevant. Greeley first, with room for regional events when they clearly connect to the lives of people here.
The purpose is not to list everything. The purpose is to help you find one or two things that fit your life so you can show up where the good is already happening.
3. A Practical Resource Guide For Neighbors
The third piece is a resource hub.
Greeley has libraries, business support organizations, nonprofits, schools, health resources, and countless informal networks. For a resident looking for help, it can be hard to know where to start. For a small business or community group looking for partners, it can be just as confusing.
Good In Greeley will collect and organize resources such as:
Where to go for business support and entrepreneurial help
Where families can find educational, youth, and after school opportunities
Where to start for mental health and wellness support
Where volunteers can plug in if they have time or skills to offer
The focus will be on clarity and action. Short, friendly explanations in plain language, followed by “Here is where you go next.”
The priority is always Greeley and Weld County. Sometimes, a statewide or national resource will be included when it clearly serves people here. You will see those connections spelled out so you know why they matter for this community.
Why Happiness And Optimism Are At The Core
This site is not built on wishful thinking. It is built on a growing body of research that shows how much our mindset and our media diet affect the way we work, learn, and connect.
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor argues that happiness is not something we earn after we succeed. Instead, a more positive mindset can actually fuel higher performance, stronger relationships, and better problem solving. When people believe that change is possible, they are more likely to take the first step.
Good In Greeley sits at the corner of those ideas and local life.
Broadcasting Happiness, by Michelle Gielan, takes that idea into the world of communication. It shows how the stories we tell, the questions we ask, and the headlines we highlight can shift entire cultures toward resilience, collaboration, and action.
Good In Greeley sits at the corner of those ideas and local life.
I am not a journalist by training. I am a business advisor and community builder who cares deeply about this city. So this site is not meant to replace local newsrooms or pretend to be hard news. Those organizations do essential work and deserve support.
What Good In Greeley will do is complement that work by consistently broadcasting the kind of stories and resources that leave people more energized and better equipped to contribute.
How Stories Will Be Chosen
Here is a simple promise about how content will be curated.
Stories and events featured on Good In Greeley will:
Highlight people and organizations that are working toward solutions
Focus on actions, progress, and possibilities, not only problems
Avoid sensationalism and partisan framing
Aim to be accurate, fair, and respectful of the people involved
Share credit and links when amplifying work from other outlets
Sometimes that will mean deeply local stories that only make sense on your block. Sometimes it will mean statewide or national stories that are clearly relevant to Greeley because they show approaches that could work here.
In those cases, Good In Greeley will act as a connector. You might see a story from another outlet summarized and linked, along with context about what it could mean for our community. The priority will always be usefulness to Greeley readers, not chasing clicks.
Where You Fit In
Good In Greeley is starting as one person’s project, but it is not meant to stay that way.
You can be part of this in a few simple ways:
Share stories and ideas. If you know someone quietly doing something good, tell us. Teachers, students, neighbors, small businesses, volunteers. Many of the best stories never make it to a press release. That is where you come in.
Submit events. If your organization is hosting a public, community minded event that fits the calendar focus, you will have easy ways to submit it. The aim is to help people find you, not to control the message.
Point people toward resources. If you know of a resource that genuinely helps residents, families, or businesses, share it so it can be added to the guide.
Read, share, and show up. When you find a story that encourages you, pass it along. When you see an event that fits your life, attend if you can. That is how this becomes more than a website.
This is not about creating an in crowd that shuts others out. It is about building a loose network of invested neighbors who care enough to stay informed, stay hopeful, and take small actions together.
At its best, Good In Greeley will be a place you visit when you want to remember why you chose to live here, or why you stayed.
A place where:
You notice just how many people are working to make things better
You discover resources you did not know were available
You find one event that gets you out of the house and into community
You see yourself as part of the story, not just a spectator
There will be room to grow. Over time, that might mean more voices writing, deeper partnerships with local organizations, and a richer mix of local and regional content. The guiding principle will stay the same.
Broadcast happiness. Highlight solutions. Make it easier for good people to find each other and do something that matters.
Thank you for reading this first post and for caring enough to learn what Good In Greeley is all about. If you have an idea, an event, or a story that belongs here, consider this your open invitation to reach out.
Good things are already happening in Greeley. Let us go find them together.
Good things are already happening in Greeley. Let us go find them together.
