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Innovation and advocacy: Building the early childhood workforce

If implemented, the many innovative solutions for building the early childhood workforce could have phenomenal results.

Innovation and advocacy: Building the early childhood workforce

If implemented, the many innovative solutions for building the early childhood workforce could have phenomenal results.

New platform to share ‘Common Ground’ from community ideas and solutions

Issue Media Group, a multilocal network of solutions-based, issues-focused digital publications, has launched a new national platform for increasing the reach and impact of its journalism.

IMG launches second round of community storytelling in Middletown, OH

The city of 50,000, which sits amid Butler and Warren counties is a "partner city" of the Soapbox Cincinnati site.

A Portal for Affordable Housing

One Michigan community came up with a unique solution to the affordable housing crunch: An online portal for housing projects seeking financial support. Funding for the Kalamazoo County project comes from a county millage and is available to developers and nonprofit organizations.

An Rx for Children

A program launched in Flint, Michigan, in 2023 helps address gaps in early childhood education and healthcare by providing stipends to pregnant people and infants. Rx Kids has been so successful that it has been expanded to other parts of Michigan.

‘Doing something about it’

A recent story in Soapbox Cincinnati, 'We're doing something about it': How an old community plans for a new start in its third century, offers a lesson plan in revitalization for older-ring suburbs.