by Dave Isay
our MobileBooths, specially equipped AirStream trailers that travel the country and make extended stops in cities and towns from coast to coast each year;
our Door-to-Door service, where StoryCorps’ facilitators use portable equipment to record interviews with participants at the location of their choice.
StoryCorps partners with more than five hundred community organizations nationwide each year to ensure that we capture the widest diversity of stories possible. To this end we have also launched a series of successful special initiatives including:
the September 11th Initiative, helping families memorialize the stories of lives lost on September 11, 2001;
StoryCorps Commemorate, preserving the stories of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss;
the Griot Initiative, the largest collection of African American voices ever gathered;
the Historias Initiative, Latino and Hispanic American stories collected across the nation;
StoryCorps Legacy, preserving the stories of people with life-threatening conditions;
the National Teachers Initiative, honoring the work of educators and their impact on our lives.
We’re working to build StoryCorps into an enduring national institution that celebrates the dignity, power, and grace that can be heard in the stories we find all around us. In the coming years we hope StoryCorps will touch the lives of every American family.
Lead funding for StoryCorps comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Major funders include: the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Kaplen Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Joe and Carol Reich.
Additional funders include: the BayTree Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Legal services are generously donated by Latham & Watkins and Holland & Knight.
For a complete and current list of all of our supporters, please visit our website: www.storycorps.org.
National partners include:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including five Peabody Awards and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work, including two storyCorps books: Listening Is an Act of Love (2007) and Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps (2010)—both New York Times bestsellers.
ALSO BY DAVE ISAY
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps