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Notes From The Field
How Michigan organizations are tackling food insecurity on the local level
Michigan’s community mental health system: Overcoming stigma to provide needed care
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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.
- CRA proposed rollbacks could mean roadblocks for community development
- A historic win for paid parental leave, led by nurses
- As SNAP cuts take effect, Michigan families and food banks brace for growing need
- Older adults suffer when stigma keeps them from mental health care
- Speciality clinics are helping close gaps in access to healthcare
- Food as Medicine: Prescription for a healthier community
- Trail signs aim to make exploring easier, safer
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics meeting Michiganders’ needs for integrated care
- Detroit Midwifery School training midwives from the community of birthing people they serve
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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.