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Notes From The Field
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Behind the headlines: Why we practice solutions journalism
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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.
- Minock Park Place provides new affordable senior housing for Detroit’s older residents
- Detroit Housing for the Future Fund returns to drive affordable housing, stable neighborhoods
- Strategies for expanding CCBHCs in Northern Michigan
- A group that drives kids with medical conditions to appointments pilots a program in Kalamazoo, MI
- Community developers’ pride for area fuels investment, catalyst for change, growth in Detroit neighborhoods
- More than miles: How run clubs are building community
- Is PreK for All meeting its goals?
- Michigan’s free universal pre-K program could serve 70,000 4-year-olds this school year
- University of Michigan program offers expensive denture treatment for free
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.