Two IMG publications react with positive stories after their communities -- Springfield, Ohio, and Tampa, Florida -- find themselves in the national spotlight.

As the newest Partner City of Soapbox Cincinnati, Middletown is showing how a community can shift from being talked about to speaking for itself through solutions-oriented reporting.

Input Fort Wayne's partnership with Wabash County focuses on highlighting the talent, creativity, investment, innovation, and emerging assets shaping the future of Wabash County. 

In Soapbox Cincinnati, the Amplifying Youth Voices series raises awareness about youth mental health by reporting on community-based solutions. Stories and videos feature youth-serving grantees plus medical, nonprofit, education and philanthropic leaders. Grantees empowered youth to create change through projects and experiences providing them a voice that was seen, heard, and valued during a fast-paced timeline to initiate solutions. Amplifying Youth Voices is a pilot program from Interact for Health, a foundation serving a 20-county region to advance health justice. More healthcare organizations are coming together to respond to this challenge, testing with solutions-based processes and gathering data to determine a wider 10-year strategy. Solutions journalism reporting is an ideal match to explain, in a clear-eyed way, how local people are working together to solve a shared problem. Read the Amplifying Youth Voices series here. 

IMG launched a new series highlighting how Southeast Michigan parks are an engine of exploration, education, and play for all.  Underscoring the importance of parks for everyone, the series is called Equity in Our Parks, and is published regularly in Model D, Metromode, and Concentrate!

IMG and our partners are not the only ones promoting the outdoors and nature. The Michigan Office of Outdoor Recreation is helping in that mission, supporting our efforts to write stories of innovation in the outdoor recreation industry.

In partnership with the Michigan Nonprofit Association and Co.Act Detroit, we launched the Nonprofit Journal Project in 2020. The series was designed to lift up the voices of nonprofits.

Route demonstrates its role in fulfilling the United Way mission with a tag, United for Good.

Input Fort Wayne joins the inaugural Creative Midwest Media Cohort, collaborating with nine other publications to showcase emerging artists in northeast Indiana, particularly focusing on Black, Indigenous, and rural creatives.

In Concentrate, a coalition of funders, including major county art institutions and local philanthropists Larry and Lucie Nisson, supports dialogue and awareness of Washtenaw County’s arts scene, including a freeform electronic music night and a photo essay chronicling the colorful annual FestiFools parade.