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StoryCorps

$400,000Active Strategy

2011 (Duration 2 years)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — StoryCorps documents the lives of ordinary people with an emphasis on those most often not included in the public record. Individual Americans interview their family members, neighbors or friends and record these interviews on compact discs. StoryCorps interviews tell stories of uncelebrated people and their lives that help cross cultural divides and provide the small personal tales that best tell our history. Interview excerpts are broadcast each week on NPR's Morning Edition and on other radio programs, podcasts, and the Internet and the collection of 40,000 interviews is housed in the Library of Congress and is available to researchers.
$450,000Active Strategy

2009 (Inactive Grant)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — In support of general operations (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded StoryCorps $850,000 between 2009 and 2012.