2 GROUNDCOVER NEWS GROUNDCOVER SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 International Network of Street Papers gathers in Liverpool to celebrate 30th anniversary, share best practices and inspiration LINDSAY CALKA Publisher For four short but jam-packed days, 43 street papers convened in Liverpool, UK for the International Network of Street Papers 2024 Summit. Groundcover News is a proud member of INSP; year-round we participate by attending the monthly North American regional network meet-ups, by publishing content from other papers, and by sharing our own content across the globe for republication. Although this summit commemorated the past 30 years of INSP, one stated goal of the conference was to build a strategy for the future of the network. Since the 2022 gathering in Milan, INSP has experienced a drop in income and had to reduce staff at the Glasgow office — on top of the challenges individual street paper organizations are facing with funding, street sales and a global rise in attacks on human rights. In the first session of the summit, delegates were invited to reflect on what they need from INSP and our global network. There was clear consensus that all the street paper organizations see the priority being connection and regard INSP as the best tool to make that connection happen, calling for more support in between summits with information-sharing, translation, collaborative projects and simple directories of who does what and where. Each day, delegates shared best practices through panel discussions, breakout conversations, strategy sessions and keynote speakers. Groundcover News was invited to speak on the “Valuing Lived Experience” panel and INSP 2024 Summit delegates at the Walker Art Gallery on the opening night, Monday, September 12. Not all delegates are pictured. presented on our Freelance Writing Program, which pays homeless and low-income people to write for the newspaper. Others on the panel were Katie Langford from Arts and Homelessness International, Simon, a vendor from Hus Forbi in Denmark, and Andre Rostant, a vendor from the see INSP page 4 PROVIDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-DETERMINED INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY POVERTY, PRODUCING A STREET NEWSPAPER THAT GIVES A PLATFORM TO UNDERREPRESENTED VOICES IN WASHTENAW COUNTY, PROMOTING AN ACTION TO BUILD A JUST, CARING AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY. Groundcover News, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in April 2010 as a means to empower lowincome persons to make the transitions from homeless to housed, and from jobless to employed. Vendors purchase each copy of our regular editions of Groundcover News at our office for 50 cents. This money goes towards production costs. Vendors work selling the paper on the street for $2, keeping all income and tips from each sale. Street papers like Groundcover News exist in cities all over the United States, as well as in more than 40 other countries, in an effort to raise awareness of the plight of homeless people and combat the increase in poverty. Our paper is a proud member of the International Network of Street Papers. STAFF Lindsay Calka — publisher Cynthia Price — editor Michelle Lardie-Guzek — intern ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS Pedro Campos Dezz Clark Jim Clark Concert Music Outreach Collective La Shawn Courtwright Cindy Gere Robbie February Anthony McCormick Denise Shearer Wayne Sparks Scoop Stevens Lynn Sutfin Maisie Weyheng GROUNDCOVER NEWS ADVERTISING RATES Size 1/8 1/6 1/4 1/2 full page Black/White $110.00 $145.00 $200.00 $375.00 $650.00 Color $150.00 $200.00 $265.00 $500.00 $900.00 Dimensions (W x H in inches) 5 X 3 or 2.5 X 6.5 5 X 4 5 X 6.25 5 X 13 or 10.25 X 6.5 10.25 X 13 CONTACT US PROOFREADERS Kendall Artz Susan Beckett Elliot Cubit Anabel Sicko VOLUNTEERS Jessi Averill Sim Bose Zachary Dortzbach Luiza Duarte Caetano Jacob Fallman Glenn Gates Alexandra Granberg Robert Klingler Simone Masing Anthony McCormick Mary Wisgerhof Max Wisgerhof Story and photo submissions: submissions@groundcovernews.com Advertising and partnerships: contact@groundcovernews.com Office: 423 S. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor Mon-Sat, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Phone: 734-263-2098 @groundcover @groundcovernews DONATE, LISTEN TO OLD ISSUES + LEARN MORE www.groundcovernews.org PACKAGE PRICING Three Months/Six Issues: 15% off Six Months/Twelve Issues: 25% off Full Year/Twenty-four Issues: 35% off Only run for two weeks/one issue: 40% off Additional 20% discount for money saving coupons
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