PANDEMIC
CIVIC LIFE
To Both See and Tell the Country: From the Road through North Carolina to South Carolina
Why seeing more of America matters.
CIVIC LIFE
Inside Our Towns: PA Humanities
A look at Humanities in the 21st century, the power of storytelling in community development, and more.
EDUCATION
Real Voices from Real Mississippi
How podcasts are reshaping how high-school students research and tell stories of their hometowns throughout Mississippi.
LOCAL HEROES
Max Taps Supports Marshall Fire Victims
In the wake of one of the costliest fires in U.S. history, a local establishment is leading a local response effort to support those in need.
CIVIC LIFE
Exposing What was Already Present
The pandemic provides an opportunity to focus on justice and equity in Erie, Pennsylvania.
ARTS
Creating and Reimagining Community through a Crisis
A look at the impact of Covid-19 on the culture sector in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Economic & Business Development
How a Small Brewery Can Survive COVID-19
A bellwether business category, figuring out how and whether it can survive.
Economic & Business Development
What happens to small companies now?
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Economic & Business Development
Will Craft Brewing Survive?
Following up with breweries large and small around the country.
Health
The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything
Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Health
Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Comparing 2020 to 1968 offers some disquieting lessons for the present.
Arts
‘This Is What We Train For’
During our five years of travel around the country, my husband Jim and I often found that artists who revealed the perspectives on their hometowns were the people who stopped us in our tracks.
Economic & Business Development
A Company That Helps You Find Job
Read the story in The Atlantic here. Bitwise hosted a conference for International Women’s Day Courtesy of Bitwise The tech-training and incubator company Bitwise, based in Fresno in California’s agricultural Central Valley, has been an important test case for the proposition that new, valuable, job-creating and wealth-expanding businesses can arise anywhere, not just in the few […]
ECONOMIC & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Sparking a Small-Town Business Ecosystem
Read the story in The Atlantic here. An event in the long-abandoned Elks Lodge in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, now an office center and civic space. (Courtesy of Innovation Collective) The national-level response to the coronavirus pandemic descends from tragedy into catastrophe. The black granite slabs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington display the names of […]
Economic & Business Development
From Military Service to Civilian Leadership
Read the story in The Atlantic here. Courtesy of NationSwell Here’s another installment in the chronicle of people who are trying to take up the slack, while the national government flails rather than coping with a pandemic. Previously in this series: innovations from libraries; changes in a statewide program in California; and responses from a nationwide nonprofit network. (To […]
Economic & Business Development
A Different Kind of Civil-Service Organization
Read the story in The Atlantic here. Aminata Brown, who is now Chief Innovation Officer at the New Orleans Police Department, and Sean Doss, now Executive Advisor to the Los Angeles Housing & Community Investment Department, both of whom served two years in those agencies as FUSE Executive Fellows. (Courtesy of James Weinberg) The U.S. national […]