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#StonewallOutLoud: Help Record the Stories of a Generation of LGBTQ People

This June, join us for #Stonewall OutLoud, a participatory initiative to gather the stories of LGBTQ elders before they are lost to history.

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How We Match Participants for One Small Step: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

Since we launched One Small Step in 2018, one of the most common questions we are asked is how we match people for conversations. Our matchmaker shares her insights and experience having facilitated more than 200 interviews.

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Preserving Your Story: Inside the StoryCorps Recording Setup

A StoryCorps signature interview offers a space for participants to share a part of their lives — and all starts with an audio setup that allows us to record a conversation before it’s preserved in our archive. Here’s the way a story makes its way from your voice to our audio software before it's processed and made ready for publishing.

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Road to Resilience: Partners Across America Helping Young People in Grief Tell Their Stories

A look at Road to Resilience: Memories that Move Us Forward, a program created with the New York Life Foundation to support the stories of children grieving the death of a parent, sibling, or important person in their lives.

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Stories From The Lunar New Year With A National Facilitator

National Facilitator Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan shared a collection of stories in honor of Lunar New Year, and shares how her family upbringing personally inspired her to take on this project.

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Where Are They Now? Jay and Andrea McKnight

“Do you think we’re stronger now in our relationship?” “Positively, absolutely.” This past month, we released a new series of animations around the themes of love between partners, and the surprising places where we find the person who completes us, titled The Love Season. Through these stories we met with a couple who spoke no […]

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One Small Step Bridges Political Divides at Trinity College

“We’re not disagreeing anymore on how to solve the problem. We’re disagreeing that the problem even exists.” Last October, we partnered with Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and invited students and alumni to have a conversation with someone with whom they disagree through our One Small Step initiative. One Small Step brings together people with different political views […]

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StoryCorps Mobile Tour: A Look Back On 2018

As we embark on our much anticipated 2019 Mobile Tour, we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2018, celebrate some the voices we recorded, and thank those that made it such a success.

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More Ways to Take One Small Step

Announcing the launch of One Small Step Communities, an program providing training and production assistance to six local public radio stations across the U.S. as part of One Small Step, our new initiative to foster conversations across political divides.

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Recipes for Success

From ironing out travel plans to deciding what side dish to bring, Thanksgiving can be stressful. However, your interview for The Great Thanksgiving Listen doesn’t have to be. We’ve put together a step-by-step guide for the big day so that you can have a relaxing, enjoyable, and fulfilling experience with your interview partner.