This month marks one year since the Collaborative embarked on its race and equity reporting project. In the last year, we have published numerous in-depth stories and series on issues relating to education, policing, environmental justice and civic engagement, and how certain policies or practices within these areas impact people of color and create or reinforce inequities. Much of our reporting has also looked at the solutions that communities are trying to address such inequities, and whether these solutions are working.

Elected leaders and city officials have reached out to our reporters and editors about the issue as some re-zoning efforts begin. And we've received a lot of reader feedback on the series, which is ongoing.
Our latest story in the series examines how discriminatory lending practices persist in New Hampshire, creating obstacles to home ownership for non-white residents.

Here at the Collaborative, we're starting off the year with a project that has been in the works for months. "Invisible Walls" is an investigative series examining how exclusionary zoning practices impact New Hampshire’s communities and reinforce inequities.

Your donation to The Collaborative allows us to produce in-depth accountability-driven, investigative reporting that we then distribute through our more than 20 local media partners. Our partners also work with our reporters to produce investigative projects that they don't have the resources to do on their own. That work is also distributed across the partner network.

We believe in the power of journalism to spark change, strengthen our communities, speak truth to power and uphold our democracy. And whether you're new to GSNC or have been with us from the very beginning, you know that our investigative, in-depth and solutions focused reporting fills a critical need in our communities.

In the last few weeks, we published a major story about lead contamination in the state, as part of our environmental justice series.
More than half of NH homes were constructed before lead paint was banned in 1978. According to the state's Department of Health and Human Services, about one-fifth of those homes currently house a child under six, meaning tens of thousands of kids may be living in structures with lead hazards.

We are a fiscally sponsored, non-profit news organization, which means in order to operate, we rely on funding support from the public to keep us going.

We use those funds to help more than 20 local news outlets share their reporting with each other. We also pay our team of experienced investigative reporters to work with Collaborative and local news editors to produce in-depth, investigative and accountability stories that the outlets can’t do with their own limited resources.

As journalists working in a variety of mediums—from print to radio and television — we do our best to tell the stories of the people, places and institutions that make the Granite State unique. One area we could improve in is telling our own story.

The Granite State News Collaborative is a collective of more than 20 local news organizations stretching across the state of New Hampshire who have agreed to work together to bring their communities more news and information they can trust.

The Collaborative as an organization helps its member outlets share news of statewide impact with each other that can then be distributed across the state and out to you.