Solving Sacramento is a journalism collaborative that produces and shares news stories on the big issues that impact our region.

For us journalists, the decline of the U.S. media industry makes us worry a lot about the state of our industry — and the corresponding state of American democracy. We're big fans of American democracy. So we are feeling a deepened devotion to fact-based reporting and a renewed commitment to the importance of local journalism. We’re working every day to rebuild trust among our community members. We’re staying the course on our solutions approach to coverage.

Since our launch, we’ve worked with about 50 freelance contributors to produce stories, photos, podcasts, illustrations and videos from a solutions perspective, which offers an anecdote to the typical doom-and-gloom coverage that contributes to audiences’ negative news burnout.

We’ve defined Solving Sacramento’s values as: trust, hope and change. Our work is distributed by trusted local media outlets, which are long-standing journalism institutions in our communities. By supplying our readers with stories centered on solutions, we aim to cultivate hope among our community members, who then feel empowered — and equipped — to make positive change for Sacramento. We also aim to build up the next generation of local journalists to serve this region.

As a collaborative, we are well-positioned for continued success, operating on the premise that we can do more together than we can do alone.

We don’t believe all is lost. We do believe we can still do our part to make things better. We hope you'll join us in our work by making a tax-deductible donation to Solving Sacramento.

A bit more about us: We're a journalism collaborative founded in early 2022. We cover five beats: affordable housing, homelessness, economic equity, arts and the environment.

Our 2024 milestones:

We have produced more than 350 original stories since our launch and about 550 stories have been cross-published among our news partners
We published our inaugural "Sac Art Pulse" print publication; more coming next year
We launched two e-newsletters (monthly recap and weekly arts one)
We completed four arts listening sessions with members of the local arts community and creative economy
We launched two limited-series podcasts (affordable housing and homelessness, and equity), and kept going with our third one, which is about arts and culture
We hired a part-time arts editor
We held our first-ever fundraiser, which resulted in two live podcast episodes
We launched our new Hangout Gigs: Live music event series

Founding Newsrooms

Founding Community Partner

California Groundbreakers

Our Current Funders

Our Founding Funder

Solutions Journalism Network

Our Fiscal Sponsor

Local Media Foundation

Donate now to help us continue building Solving Sacramento!

Solving Sacramento is a collaborative program administered by Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36‐4427750, a Section 501(c)(3) charitable trust affiliated with Local Media Association. Funds donated to this program support journalism projects to inform and educate the public on critical local issues. Contributions to this program are tax-deductible to the full extent of U.S. law; please consult a tax advisor for details. No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions.

Solving Sacramento

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Solving Sacramento