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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.
- CDFIs investments in childcare allows daycares like Detroit’s Lil Love Bugs to further invest in children’s futures
- Why early childhood belongs on every Michigan voter’s ballot
- CMHA: Telling the whole story about Michigan’s public mental health system
- Early childhood millages strengthen childcare system
- One Detroit Credit Union brings two new CDFI branches to serve the underserved, unbanked communities
- Retail incubators help small businesses test the leap into storefronts
- How one dentist and a multitude of volunteers built Cleveland’s biggest day of smiles
- Little Michiganders need more investment in early interventions
- LifeWays: In Jackson and Hillsdale counties, the road to recovery starts here
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.