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Town Hall with Assemblymember Tina McKinnor
Hosted by WAYS founder Kedrin Johnson. Bring your questions and hear directly from your representative in the State Assembly.
Inglewood grows when its people do.
WAYS Community Development Corporation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit putting groceries on family tables, career training in reach, and real business know-how in the hands of the entrepreneurs who hire our neighbors.
Where your support goes
Every program we run answers a need we see on Crenshaw Boulevard every week.
Employment
Full-tuition CNA scholarships and small-business growth that turns into local jobs.
How we open doorsFood disparity
A free community food bank, open three Fridays a month.
Visit the food bankCommunity development
The Business GrindOut Session gives entrepreneurs a full day of training, access and capital know-how.
Meet the GrindOutMental health
Safe at WAYS brings mental health awareness out in the open.
About Safe at WAYS
No one on our block should have to choose between rent and groceries.
The WAYS Food Bank opens its doors on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Friday of every month. Families can sign up on site, no paperwork maze required.
Upcoming distribution days
Built by a founder who never stopped building.
Kedrin “Kitty” Johnson founded WAYS Home Care & Health Agency and then WAYS CDC, so the community that supported her business would share in what it built.
Read her storyGive where it’s felt.
Your gift stocks the food bank, funds a CNA scholarship and keeps the GrindOut free for the next founder with a big idea. WAYS CDC is a 501(c)(3); donations are tax-deductible.
Donate nowAbout WAYS CDC
We invest in the people who make Inglewood work.
WAYS Community Development Corporation was established in 2020 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We focus where the need is most direct: food on the table, a path to steady work, and a community of business owners strong enough to hire from within.
The causes we serve
Employment
Through the Gloria Marigny Scholarship, we cover full CNA tuition so students can enter healthcare careers without debt. Every entrepreneur we help scale is another employer in the neighborhood.
Food disparity
The WAYS Food Bank serves families on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Friday of each month at 8615 Crenshaw Blvd.
Community development
The annual Business GrindOut Session brings government contracting, tech, finance and nonprofit expertise to local founders in a single day, free of charge.
Mental health & wellness
Safe at WAYS is our mental health awareness event, creating space for honest conversation and connection to support.
Our founder
Kedrin “Kitty” Johnson
Kedrin Johnson is the founder and CEO of WAYS Home Care & Health Agency, a home care provider that has served individuals and families across California and Nevada for more than a decade. In 2020 she founded WAYS Community Development Corporation to put the agency’s success to work for the community around its Inglewood headquarters.
Under her leadership, WAYS CDC launched the Business GrindOut Session, the WAYS Food Bank, Safe at WAYS and the Gloria Marigny Scholarship. Each spring she hosts Breakfast at Kitty’s, the GrindOut’s signature morning celebration of growth and achievement.
About Breakfast at Kitty’sLeadership
A volunteer board that lives and works in the community it serves.
Recognition
Give where it’s felt.
Your gift stocks the food bank, funds a CNA scholarship and keeps the GrindOut free for the next founder with a big idea. WAYS CDC is a 501(c)(3); donations are tax-deductible.
Donate nowPrograms
Help that shows up on a schedule.
Our programs run year-round, funded by donors, sponsors and the Business GrindOut Session.
WAYS Food Bank
Food disparity in South Los Angeles is not a statistic to us. It is the family down the street. The WAYS Food Bank provides groceries free of charge to anyone who needs them.
Next distribution days
Your donation keeps the shelves full between Fridays.
Donate to the food bankGloria Marigny Scholarship
WAYS CDC provides full-tuition scholarships for students at the Gloria Marigny C.N.A. School. Certified Nursing Assistants are in demand across Los Angeles, and a scholarship removes the biggest barrier between a motivated student and a stable healthcare career.
Graduates celebrate at WAYS Headquarters each year, and many go on to serve the same community that invested in them.
What a scholarship covers
Full CNA program tuition at Gloria Marigny C.N.A. School.
Why it matters
A CNA certificate is one of the fastest routes from unemployment to a healthcare paycheck, and it opens the door to further nursing education.
Safe at WAYS
A mental health awareness event
Safe at WAYS
Mental health is community health. Safe at WAYS opens the conversation with practitioners, resources and neighbors in one room, so that asking for help becomes ordinary.
Support Safe at WAYSGive where it’s felt.
Your gift stocks the food bank, funds a CNA scholarship and keeps the GrindOut free for the next founder with a big idea. WAYS CDC is a 501(c)(3); donations are tax-deductible.
Donate now
A full day of business, culture, ownership and community growth.
What the GrindOut is
The WAYS CDC Business GrindOut Session (BGOS) is a twelve-hour, free-to-attend business summit held each spring at WAYS Headquarters in Inglewood. Since its first year it has brought founders, elected officials, investors, artists and industry leaders under one roof to share what most small businesses never get access to: the playbook.
Over six seasons the GrindOut has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs in our community launch, formalize and grow. When those businesses grow, they hire, and that is how a one-day event turns into year-round employment.
How we fundraise
We keep the GrindOut free for the entrepreneurs who need it most. The day is funded three ways:
What we raise supports WAYS CDC programs all year: the food bank, CNA scholarships and Safe at WAYS.
This year’s activations
Four experiences running through the day. Choose one to learn more.
Six years of GrindOut
Every season has raised the bar. Choose a year to see who took the stage.
Recap videos
See the last two seasons for yourself.
5th Annual recap, 2026
Presented by City National Bank and celebrating 10 years of WAYS Home Care & Health Agency.
4th Annual recap, 2025
The year the activations debuted, with Kevin Sherrod and the first Power Panel.
Want to get involved? Be a sponsor.
Put your brand in front of hundreds of entrepreneurs, community leaders and elected officials, and help keep the GrindOut free for the people who need it most.
Get in touch
Questions about sponsorship, speaking, vending, volunteering, media or attending the 6th Annual GrindOut? Send us a note and our team will get back to you.
Affiliates
The WAYS family of organizations.
Our affiliates share our address, our values and, often, our people. Together they connect training, employment, storytelling and care.
Home Care & Health Agency, LLCCelebrated 10 years in 2026WAYS Home Care & Health Agency, LLC
A DDS-funded home care provider vendorized with Regional Centers across California and Nevada, including Inglewood, Harbor, East Bay, San Diego and Antioch. WAYS Home Care supports people with developmental disabilities and their families with in-home services, and it is where WAYS CDC began.
Gloria Marigny C.N.A. School
Certified Nursing Assistant training that prepares students for healthcare careers. WAYS CDC funds full-tuition scholarships through the Gloria Marigny Scholarship, and graduation is held at WAYS Headquarters each year.
Visit gloriamarignycnaschool.com
BENDOLL
BENDOLL is the official media partner of WAYS Community Development Corporation, handling event and media production across all of our events and programs, from the Business GrindOut Session to everything in between.
Visit bendollenterprises.comGive where it’s felt.
Your gift stocks the food bank, funds a CNA scholarship and keeps the GrindOut free for the next founder with a big idea. WAYS CDC is a 501(c)(3); donations are tax-deductible.
Donate nowMerch
Wear the GrindOut.
Every purchase supports WAYS CDC programs. Choose your items and send your order request; our team will confirm payment and pickup or shipping.
BGOS T-shirt, white
$40The Business GrindOut Session tee. Lockup on the front; the back reads “Volunteer” with a QR code to the WAYS CDC site.
BGOS T-shirt, black
$40The Business GrindOut Session tee. Lockup on the front; the back reads “Volunteer” with a QR code to the WAYS CDC site.
BGOS coffee mug
$20For the 8AM grind. Navy ceramic with the GrindOut lockup.
Order requests open an email to our team with your items prefilled. Merch is also available at the GrindOut on May 1, 2027.