Solution-focused news on environment, business & social issues in greater Minnesota. We reframe problems & engage problem solvers w/ stories events training art
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13 Nov 2023
Hi friends! Project Optimist journalists will be on @MPR this hour to talk about our Nuclear at a Crossroads series. Listen in!! mprnews.org/listen
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24 Apr 2023
Hey @Meta-Can we get some help? We have been locked out of our professional FB page for weeks. Our founder's primary cell phone stopped working and all other modes of 2-factor authentication have failed to grant access. We will stop paying for boosted posts if we can't get in!
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10 Apr 2023
Nora Hertel, founder of @MnTheoptimist and a 2022-2023 Initiators Fellow, was recently highlighted by @100RuralWomen. Get the full story from 100 Rural Women: 100ruralwomen.org/nora-herte…
Learn more about the Initiators Fellowship at fellows.greaterminnesota.net. 100ruralwomen.org/nora-herte…
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21 Feb 2023
As Founder of @mntheoptimist, @nghertel shares how she's had to reckon with what success looks like and what she wants to build Project Optimist to be rjionline.org/news/how-being…
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1 Mar 2023
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7 Feb 2023
The other opportunity is to work with our RJI News Founders @ThePeoplesBeat @MnTheoptimist
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@MnTheoptimist highlights the challenges & opportunities for a "green entrepreneur" who received support from Central RSDP in 2021 for his biodigester project.
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30 Sep 2022
There are 4 steps in 2 suicide intervention models -- VA SAVE and safeTALK - check 'em out! Identify signs the person is in crisis & ask directly if they're thinking about suicide. Then listen & validate feelings. Help the person get help & expedite treatment. Call 988 for help!
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30 Sep 2022
Let's end #SuicidePrevention Awareness Month with some insights on firearm safety. If you're not sure why, we explored the question in our final chapter of a month-long series on veteran suicide prevention. theoptimist.tinynewsco.org/n…
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30 Sep 2022
Love this story from @19thnews about a program that's blazing a trail for women in wildland firefighting 19thnews.org/2022/09/women-w…
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19 Sep 2022
We’re launching our Community Information Needs survey. This is our opportunity to listen with intention and use what we learn to steer our editorial priorities. Your honest feedback will determine what we cover. bit.ly/afrolainfoneeds
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28 Sep 2022
We've got a comic to show the steps in a suicide intervention by illustrating artist @NikkiWolg.
This is the culmination of a month-long project on veteran suicide prevention that aligns with #SuicidePrevention Awareness Month.
Here's the video version. Please share!!
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19 Sep 2022
Geeking out since I earned my accreditation certificate to train @soljourno last week! I'm very much on a mission to increase the amount of solutions journalism in Minnesota, and this will help!! 😁
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12 Sep 2022
Saturday was World Suicide Prevention Day
Sunday marked the 21st anniversary of 9/11 &
All month we're focused on veteran suicide prevention.
Here's the personal story behind our series. Check it out and sign up to get the rest as soon as it's posted
theoptimist.tinynewsco.org/n…
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.@nghertel is the founder of The Optimist, a news startup focused on solution-focused journalism for rural communities in Minnesota. She's traveling the state, sharing her vision for solutions journalism and dialogue journalism. #RJIFounders @MnTheoptimist rjionline.org/news/founding-…
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22 Aug 2022
Peek at this week's newsletter! I visited Pope/Douglas Solid Waste Mgmt's new Glacial Ridge Compost Facility to learn abt community composting.
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Photos: landfill kitty, me at the metal recovery facility & Env Coord Nathan Reinbold theoptimist.tinynewsco.org/
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22 Aug 2022
The @TucsonStar and @caitlincschmidt are celebrating one year of their solutions beat
They wrote about it, and this piece really jumped out:
ALT A screenshot of text by Caitlin Schmidt that says: Our solutions journalism beat here at the Star is turning one year old on Aug. 15. While reflecting on the occasion, I admitted to my editor that when I'd pitched the idea of a whole beat focusing on people and groups working to fix problems, I wasn't sure if I'd generate enough reader interest or would even find enough stories to keep it going. Sure, we've done projects involving solutions journalism at the Star for years, but we hadn't taken on regular, sustained coverage of solutions that are underway (or needed) in our community. Turns out, my fears were all for naught. I've had a backlog of story ideas from the start and the beat has grown in ways I couldn't have imagined.
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18 Aug 2022
From 'problems' journalism to 'solutions' journalism... that's what we're about at the The Optimist! Check out this interview from @KernBeare w/ a @soljourno founder abt how journalism can help communities solve problems & validate the good in humanity difficultconversations.buzzs…
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