About the GGBB Foundation
The GGBB Foundation exists to center and serve transgender women — honoring us as culture-bearers, elders, and visionaries — while seeding regenerative community models that can take root anywhere. By beginning with the most marginalized, we create a lens of equity, care, and creativity that becomes the blueprint for whole towns. Each GGBB is both home and catalyst: a place where trans women thrive, and where local communities learn to build balance, beauty, and belonging into their own regenerative small-town frameworks.
We begin in Hudson, NY, building the first Regenerative Small Town model: a community framework where culture, equity, and care are not afterthoughts but foundations. Through initiatives like the GGBB—Legacy Stewardship Model (supporting Transgender Women Elders), the GGBB—Bunk. Play. Haus. Model (a residency for Transgender artists and performers), and the Community Constitution & Culture Coalition, GGBB creates living prototypes for communities of the future.
Our work reimagines the social contract—replacing extraction with equity-based opportunities across many forms of capital: financial, cultural, ecological, spiritual, and social. We establish new rules for how to do business and build community—with people, planet, and shared prosperity—in that order.
The GGBB Foundation seeks visionary partners and aligned investors—those ready to seed a regenerative future and co-create frameworks that can be adapted globally, one community at a time.
At the heart of GGBB is a commitment to Beauty, Balance, and Belonging.
These are not just ideals—they are living practices that guide every decision, every space, every relationship we nurture.
Our Values:
Truth-Telling
We speak clearly and courageously, naming what is real even when it is inconvenient. Truth is our compass — not as weapon, but as light that clears distortion and invites trust.Integrity in Action
We live what we declare. Integrity is not posture, it is practice — the alignment of word, deed, and care in every space we shape.Belonging for All
We build worlds where every person has a seat, every identity is honored, and no one is left outside the circle. Hospitality is our politics; belonging is our measure of success.
Our Pillars of Practice:
Culture as Hospitality
We honor art, ritual, and gathering as acts of welcome that weave belonging into the fabric of daily life.
Community as Economy
We root prosperity in people, creating systems where equity, care, and reciprocity are the true currencies of value.
Design as Activism
We transform aesthetics into action, shaping spaces, brands, and experiences that disrupt extraction and embody liberation.
Regeneration as Governance
We establish living frameworks where leadership restores balance between people, planet, and future generations.
The Values are the roots of GGBB — the covenant that grounds us. The Pillars are the architecture we raise upon them — how we move, build, and serve. Together they form a living temple: the Values are why we breathe, the Pillars are how we walk.
Cy Melina-Kai Lauz, “GG Melina”
About the Founder, GG Melina
A social entrepreneur on the cutting edge
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Cy Melina-Kai Lauz is a visionary leader, cultural architect, and regenerative strategist dedicated to reimagining how we live, create, and build community. As founder of the **GGBB Foundation—Grace, Gratitude, Balance, Belonging—**she is pioneering models of Regenerative Culture that inspire both people and organizations to design futures rooted in balance, resilience, and belonging.
Her work has been recognized globally, including in the New York Times best-seller In the Company of Women, where she was celebrated as a bold trans advocate and creative force shaping the next wave of social innovation.
In 2013, with the launch of Chrysalis Lingerie, Cy helped mainstream the identity of the Transgender Woman. By insisting on correct naming — at a time when media and industry defaulted to “transgendered” or “MTF” — she turned a viral fashion launch into a cultural shift that gave language and visibility to a generation. This legacy continues with Chrys.Alis, expanding that ethos of inclusivity to all genders while anchoring in local regenerative production.
Today, through GGBB, Cy channels more than a decade of social entrepreneurship into cultivating Regenerative Small Towns and ecosystems of belonging. Her approach is both intimate and expansive—rooted in lived experience as a Transgender Woman, informed by cultural strategy, and devoted to sparking transformation wherever her work touches.
Whether on stage, in dialogue, or at the helm of community initiatives, Cy embodies the role of visionary guide and steward—challenging old systems, seeding new frameworks, and reminding us of what becomes possible when we design with consciousness, creativity, and love at the center.