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Dear StoryCorps Alumni, Since we launched the Save the Mobile Tour campaign, StoryCorps Alums, podcast listeners, and StoryCorps fans have rallied to keep us on the road. Thank you! We still need your help. We're wrapping up our campaign this week, and we still need to raise $25,000 to reach our goal. If just 1,000 of our 50,000 Alums gave $25 each, we would be able to keep recording our stories of humanity throughout the United States. Alums tell us every day how important their StoryCorps experience has been to them. Read what some Alumni are saying about StoryCorps, and why they've become donors, below. If you haven't already, please join me and the hundreds of Alums who have donated to Save the Mobile Tour.  Warmly,
Christa Orth  Alumni Talk Back! Alumni make a huge difference through their contributions to StoryCorps. Here's what some Alumni are saying:
Thank you, Story Corps, for showing me how my mom is even more wonderful than I realized! -Zoe Chance with her mother, New Haven, CT
-Laura Livingstone-McNelis with her friend Lester, Kalamazoo, MI
-Joanne Krekian with her sister and mother, Middletown, CT
Keep on truckin'!
-Dr. Linda Hawes Clever with her husband James, Mill Valley, CA
The StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative is very fortunate to be funded by StoryCorps Alums Joe and Carol Reich. They became involved with StoryCorps through their foundation when they wanted to make a difference for people affected by memory loss. Joe and Carol did their first StoryCorps interview in 2006, during which they reminisced about the past 20 years of working together in philanthropy. Since 2006, the Memory Loss Initiative has recorded more than 1,000 interviews with 2,000 participants in 35 states. The program gives people with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss and dementia the opportunity to record stories about the things they can remember. The program has reached people as diverse as African Americans with Alzheimer's, Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII, and Native Alaskans, to name a few. Through the generosity of Joe and Carol Reich, StoryCorps has partnered with more than a hundred care giving institutions to bring this healing service to participants far and wide.
Carol and Joe Reich with StoryCorps Alum We thank Joe and Carol for their tremendous contributions in supporting and encouraging people with memory loss to share their stories. Read more about the Memory Loss Initiative's visit to the MoMA on our StoryCorps Blog.
According to Alum Seth Fleischauer, the StoryCorps interview with his grandfather William Jacobs was a "real bonding experience."
Last year, Seth, who is a third-grade teacher, shared the benefits of doing oral history interviews with his students at the Earth School in New York City through the StoryCorps National Day of Listening.
The National Day of Listening - celebrated each year the day after Thanksgiving - is a nationwide effort to help Americans preserve their family and local histories. Last year, tens of thousands of Americans participated in homes, libraries, classrooms, and community centers across the country.
Seth with his grandfather,
Seth said his students "got a lot out of doing oral histories with each other - not only instruction on what makes a good question, and a good listener, but also the inherent closeness that occurs when asking good questions and listening to those who are closest to us."
You can find out more information about the National Day of Listening at www.nationaldayoflistening.org. And don't forget to mark your calendar for the National Day of Listening on November 27, 2009!
Listen to Stories
Sponsors and Partners Major funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
StoryCorps is also made possible by generous support from the Annenberg Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, and the Kaplen Foundation.
StoryCorps' podcasts are supported by the Fetzer Institute as part of its Campaign for Love and Forgiveness.
StoryCorps partners with NPR and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
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 We need your help to continue to record, preserve, and share incredible stories from people in your community and others throughout the nation. For more information about making a tax-deductible contribution to StoryCorps, please feel free to contact me.
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