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Notes From The Field
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Solutions that work, from communities like yours. Explore innovative stories from across our network showcasing how neighborhoods are solving today’s challenges together.
- Detroit Public Schools intent on feeding kids healthy meals in face of impending SNAP cuts
- Detroit Midwifery School training midwives from the community of birthing people they serve
- Michigan farmworkers hold onto hope amid increased immigration enforcement; nonprofits provide resources
- Can “Poetry Saves Lives?” Festival shares how poetry benefits mental health
- Column: Medicaid Changes and the Potential Impact
- How are Michigan’s families doing?
- MI CDFI Coalition members, collaborators help create connections and collective identity in communities
- Unsung heroes: LifeWays’ executive leads from behind the scenes
- Through comprehensive care, this clinic is reducing the risk of recurring childhood maltreatment
Projects
Issue Media Group leverages the power of solutions-based + narrative storytelling in partnership with community-based leadership coalitions to increase attachment to place – a foundational element to inclusive economic growth – while delivering community response to local media contraction.
Our Mission and Model
Through a coalition of community partners, Issue Media Group publishes weekly journalism covering sustainability, transportation, arts and culture, talent, design, neighborhood growth and revitalization, small businesses and entrepreneurship, and social innovation.
Underwriting
Underwriting is the basis of our model as a publication. Support from underwriters allows IMG to dedicate editorial resources to cover key issue areas that are of importance to both the underwriter and IMG’s mission.
Our Teams
Issue Media Group, a local journalism leader, publishes weekly news thanks to our editorial leadership teams operating locally and our executive leadership team. Meet our leadership team members.