Nine Years After Initial Grant, Carnegie Corporation Report Recounts StoryCorps Story
A new report details how one grantmaking foundation’s early funding for StoryCorps helped initiate the project, giving it a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” which in turn attracted the support of additional funders; a second grant some years later enabled the organization to help New Yorkers reflect on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The report, StoryCorps: Sharing the Story of American Lives, examines the impact on StoryCorps of Carnegie Corporation of New York’s modest but important 2003 seed grant, which allowed an organization that was then struggling to stay afloat to continue pursuing its mission of inspiring Americans to record the meaningful events of their lives in sound, and to provide them with an easy and accessible way to make those recordings.