StoryCorps DIY

Learn how to document and preserve the local stories and history of your community.

After years of working closely with community partners, StoryCorps has created a new set of do-it-yourself resources to help organizations develop their own interview collection projects.

With multimedia resources and guides, StoryCorps DIY offer insights and instructions on how to:

Promote listening: Preserve the life stories of your community members, and facilitate meaningful interactions between community members.
Build an archive: Develop your organization’s oral history collection, and add voices and perspectives that are currently missing.
Create dynamic public programming: Bring new audiences to your organization by inviting them to record their own stories, or to take part in listening events.
Partner in new ways with peer organizations: Forge meaningful connections with partner organizations for a shared project goal.

StoryCorps DIY is best suited for groups and organizations that wish to create a sustainable community program around storytelling. Sign up for free.

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Sample Video Resource

Upcoming Webinars

Register for a webinar to receive an introduction to the available StoryCorps DIY resources from StoryCorps staff. You do not need to attend a webinar to get started. All webinars last approximately 60 minutes.

Register for our next introductory webinar on Thursday, June 8, 2pm-3pm ET.

Interested in joining StoryCorps’ One Small Step efforts by launching a DIY program in your community? Register for our Intro to One Small Step webinar on Thursday, June 22, 4pm-4:45pm ET

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.