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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.
- Ferris taps public health dentist to launch Michigan’s first dental therapy program
- Trinity Health and Michigan community groups will make fresh, local food a Medicaid benefit
- Childcare workforce crisis fuels push for wage reforms
- From hospital to homelessness: Marquette project seeks to establish recuperative care for the unhoused
- Firefighters face a higher risk of skin cancer – nano fabrics with tiny, rough fibers can help keep them safer
- The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round: Grand Rapids’ Central Station Early Childhood Center
- Navigating autism now more difficult for Michiganders
- Relationships with law enforcement and community organizations central to rural mental health services
- Collaboration with justice system reshaping mental health response
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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.