Media Coverage

PRI acts as a community voice for those living in poverty.

Kids Count in Michigan

• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette's Sunday, January 29, 2012 editorial on child poverty.

• Listen to Gordon Evan's detailed coverage of the January 24, 2012 Kids Count press conference for WMUK 102.1FM.
• Read Fritz Klug's January 24, 2012 Kalamazoo Gazette article on the Kalamazoo County Kids Count numbers.
• Read Fritz Klug's January 24, 2012 Kalamazoo Gazette article on the statewide Kids Count numbers.
• Watch WWMT's January 24, 2012 interview with K RESA Superintendent Ron Fuller.
• Watch WWMT's January 24,2012 interview with Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Director Linda Vail.

• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette article by Gabrielle Russon - Feb 8, 2011
• Read WMUK 102.1's report by Andy Robbins - Feb 8, 2011
• Listen to the story  on WMUK 102.1 by Andy Robbins -Feb 8, 2011

Watch WWMT Newschannel 3 coverage, Feb 8, 2011:

• featuring Jeff Brown, Poverty Reduction Initiative
• featuring Pam Kingery, Kalamazoo Communities in Schools

Read the Kalamazoo Gazette article by Linda Mah, Kids Count 2008 Report - Jan 13, 2009

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Poverty Reduction Initiative

• Listen to Executive Director Patrick Naswell speak with WOFR about poverty and what we're doing to reduce it in Kalamazoo.
  
• Click here to watch PRI director Jeff Brown discuss the unintended consequences of drug testing for state benefits on WWMT News Channel 3.
  
• Listen to Part 3 of WMUK's series on homelessness, broadcast December 22, 2011
  
• Listen to December 21,2011 WMKU Gordon Evans discussion of homelessness, featuring   PRI director Jeff Brown
• Listen to the begining of WMUK's series on homelessness, broadcast on December 20, 2011
  
• Read September 20, 2011 mlive coverage of tax increase to fund housing subsidies in Kalamazoo by Paula M. Davis
  
• Read the July 19, 2011 WMUK's Gordon Evans interview with director Jeff Brown on the county millage to address homelessness  (Listen to the WMUK interview)
  

• Read May 25, 2011 mlive Joyce Pines column on MI tax cuts, kids and poverty.
• Read Feb 21, 2009 mlive article on the AmeriCorps VISTA grant.

Project Connect

• Watch Fox 17's coverage from November 16, 2011
• Read Michigan Radio's story from November 16, 2011
• View photos from the Kalamazoo Gazette, November 16, 2011
  
• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette story, November 16, 2011
  
• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette preview article, November 14, 2011
  
• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette article on Galesburg United Methodist Church's $3,000 donation by Chris Killian, October 28, 2011
• Media Advisory for November 14, 2012 Project Connect Event
• Interview on the Lori Moore Show with John Deisinger, PRI Communications Coordinator
  

• View the Kalamazoo Gazette photos by Mark Bugnaski, May 12, 2011
• Read the  Kalamazoo Gazette report by Sebastian Fryer, May 12, 2011
• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette notice by Sebastian Fryer, May 9, 2011
  
  
• Nov 18, 2010 - Kalamazoo Gazette  PHOTOS
• Nov 15, 2010 - Kalamazoo Gazette - NOTICE
• May 13, 2010 -Kalamazoo Gazette - REPORT
• May 7, 2010 - Kalamazoo Gazette - NOTICE

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Poverty Simulation Workshops

• Listen to the Michigan Radio story here.

• Read the Kalamazoo Gazette article on a community simulation by Rebecca Baken, Nov 19, 2009
• Read a Kalamazoo Gazette article on WMU students by Rebecca Baken, Oct 26, 2009
• Read an mlive article on Loy Norrix High School simulation, Feb 21, 2009.

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Pace for Poverty

Read the Kalamazoo Gazette notice by David T. Young, Jun 4, 2010

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Voices for Action

• Read WWMT News Channel 3 coverage of Voices for Action Region 6 meeting , September 9, 2009.

BankOn Kalamazoo

• Read the October 1st, 2012 Write-Up of BankOn Kalamazoo's official launch.

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