Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Pana MIA Club promotes everything local in South Florida in order to achieve a more regenerative future.
A club that connects South Florida to its own: the small businesses, creatives and organizations who make this place what it is.
Pana MIA Club serves as a community connector to promote everything local in South Florida — small businesses, creatives, and organizations — in order to achieve a more regenerative future.
That is the whole idea. Everything else on this page is a way of doing it.
/pah·nah/
South American and Caribbean slang for friend. Around here it also means someone who shows up for the place they live.
So that nobody with an idea for how to make South Florida better had to start at ground zero.
Use this community to launch your ideas, get feedback, and grow skills, all for the benefit of South Florida. We don’t believe in competition and we reject the scarcity mindset.
Because communities know their own needs best, and they are the ones best equipped to meet them.
Not three departments — three halves of the same argument, that a place gets better when the people in it own the tools, the gatherings and the stories.
Current tech prioritizes shareholder values.
We’re developing platforms that prioritize genuine connection, user data privacy, and ecological wellbeing.
People feel disconnected from each other and the land.
Our programming focuses on bringing people together to build people power and develop a community’s agency to flourish.
Cultural change is lasting change.
We support arts projects that encourage collective dreaming and shift the narrative towards celebrating interconnectedness and joy.
Longer reads from the people building South Florida's local economy.
How a handful of vendors turned an empty lot into a weekly place for food, music, and familiar faces.
A local café is more than a counter and a cup. It can be the room where collaborators, neighbors, and new ideas meet.
Panas from three counties shared what they are building, what is getting in the way, and where cooperation can begin.
Meet the local artists making walls, sidewalks, and storefronts feel more like the communities around them.
Shade, water, native plants, and neighborhood knowledge are already shaping a more resilient way to gather.
One Pana shares the small decisions, community support, and stubborn optimism behind opening their first storefront.
Pana MIA is built by and for locally based creatives, organizations and small businesses across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Join the directory, or start by finding someone already in it.
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