Let’s explain what we mean by storytelling collaboration. This is a more involved, less “objective” kind of journalism that embeds students into organizations to work
Category: Community Collaborations
Building futures, one family at a time: The Road Home honors stories of strength at their annual breakfast fundraiser (Collaborative Story)
“How can a Motel 6 feel more like a home than stone and bricks?” UW–Madison student artist and Madison 2024 Youth Poet Laureate Justin Festege-Russell
Addressing housing insecurity through a holistic care model (Collaborative Story)
The United States continues to face a nationwide affordability crisis marked by extraordinary rates of housing insecurity. Communities report difficulty adequately supporting unhoused residents and
The Tenant Resource Center fights housing instability and provides resources to renter households facing eviction
According to data collected by the Tenant Resource Center, a Madison organization that supplies eviction information, support and legal representation to households and individuals, 2,353
Housing Last Podcast
The podcast, Housing Last, emphasizes systematic factors rather than personal responsibility of the existing narratives about homelessness. The following episodes feature unhoused people and their
Root 2 Rise Podcast Seeds of Leadership (Collaborative Storytelling)
The podcast is a collaboration between Madison Commons, the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and Root 2 Rise. Called Seeds of Leadership, these
Collaborative Podcasts
Seeds of Leadership: The podcast by Root 2 Rise, called Seeds of Leadership, is the result of a partnership with the UW-Madison School of Journalism
Redrawing the path: YAAS Madison’s model for youth mental health and justice support (Collaborative Story)
A mental-health initiative that began with a 2020 Dane County grant has grown into one of Madison’s most comprehensive community-based support systems for young people.
Collaborative Storytelling: How we do community-based, solutions focused work in Madison
In Fall 2024, Madison Commons launched an initiative to explore how journalists might act as caregivers in hyperlocal communities, working in collaboration with a nonprofit
Dane County housing insecurity resource list
This is an evolving list of resources for people seeking help with their housing concerns: wrongful eviction, problems with landlords or notices of other programs
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