Project summary: $128,535 in Grand Rapids, Mich.
With this grant, the Grand Rapids Community Foundation plans to improve community reporting by establishing neighborhood news bureaus in four areas of the city, creating an online news source, The Rapidian. Residents will be trained as citizen journalists and equipped with resources to distribute their work across platforms. Students from Grand Valley State University will help staff the bureaus. The non-profit Community Media Center will pull the content into a hub and create a “widget” that will send the news feed to 50 local Web sites.
