StoryCorps. Atlanta Inaugural Fundraising Event Corporate Sponsorship Opportunity

1. The StoryCorps AtlantaProject
“Honoring and celebrating one
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another’s lives through listening ”
listening.

2. Table of Contents
About StoryCorps
Celebrating Lives; Conversations of a Lifetime
Largest Oral History Project in US History
National Archives
Atlanta StoryBooth Project
Letters of Endorsement/Sponsorship
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Public Broadcasting Atlanta
Center for Civil and Human Rights
University System of Georgia
Sponsorship Opportunities
Contact Information

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Overview of
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4. Our mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives
another s
through listening.
Since 2003, more than 30,000 everyday people have shared life
stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each
“StoryCorps is hi t
“St C i history i th
in the
conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is
richest sense of the word. It is
preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our a bottom-up history, history that
broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps® is the will make people feel like they
largest oral history project of its kind. count.” Studs Terkel
Everybody’s story matters. Every life counts. Help us reach out
to record our history, hopes, and common humanity—and
illuminate the true character of this nation.

5. The conversation of a lifetime
“I am so grateful to
The heart of StoryCorps is the conversation have done this.
between two people who matter to each other: a Everyone should do
son asking his mother about her childhood, an StoryCorps, because
immigrant telling his friend about coming to we don’t live forever.”
America, a couple reminiscing on their 50th
wedding anniversary.
“The highlight was
having my mother
StoryCorps participants are often profoundly say she never
moved by their experiences. Many conversations knew how much I
naturally evoke the universal themes of our loved her until she
existence - birth, love, death - as well as the day- saw my f face as I
was listening.”
to-day acts of kindness, courage, and humor that
define our lives.
“What StoryCorps
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opportunity truly did for my mother’s
connect, ask the questions that matter, and listen sense of self-worth
closely, the StoryCorps experience is powerful cannot be contained
and sometimes even life-changing. in this thank you.”

6. Listening is an act of love
The experience continues whenever people listen
to these stories – to the courage, the humor the
courage humor,
“Simply wonderful. It is like
trials and triumphs of an incredible range of listening to someone’s heart.”
voices.
“Brilliant! Positively brilliant! This
Millions now listen to the wisdom of other people’s is just what is truly needed… a
grandmothers and b t f i d Si
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2005 breath of very, very fresh air!”
StoryCorps has quickly become one of the most
beloved segments on NPR. The weekly broadcast “The stories are at times heart-
on Morning Edition reaches over 12 million warming, at times heartbreaking,
listeners, thousands of whom respond with letters but they are always interesting.
and e mails
e-mails. This i th
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myself waiting for eagerly each
week.”
In 2007, our podcast launched in the iTunes Top
10, and stories from the Griot Initiative began
airing on NPR’s News & Notes.
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7. October 2003 StoryCorps is born with the
The story of StoryCorps opening of a StoryBooth in Grand Central
Terminal in New York.
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit conceived May 2005 Our first two MobileBooths –
traveling recording studios housed in
by MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay in conjunction with Airstream trailers – launch from the Library
of Congress. By the close of 2007, they will
his award-winning documentary company. have recorded stories in more than 70 cities
in 45 states.
We launched in New York City’s Grand Central July 2005 Our second StoryBooth opens in
Terminal in October 2003 with our first sound- proof New York with a special initiative to
remember the people affected by the events
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participants can talk and listen to each other. Since
July 2006 We launch a special initiative to
then, we have opened two more StoryBooths, reach out to people affected by memory loss.
launched three MobileBooths, recorded on-site at
January 2007 The third StoryBooth opens in
hundred of locations, and developed initiatives to
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welcomes a fourth.
reach an even wider range of participants.
February 2007 The StoryCorps Griot Initiative
launches a third MobileBooth to collect the
StoryCorps interviews are now archived at the stories of thousands of African Americans,
Library of Congress, the World Trade Center the largest oral history project of its kind
since the WPA slave narratives of the 1930s.
Museum,
Museum and the Smithsonian’s future National
Smithsonian s
Museum of African American History and Culture. June 2007 StoryCorps receives a rare
institutional Peabody Award, the highest
honor in broadcast journalism.
November 2007 The first ever StoryCorps
Book and CD, Listening Is an Act of Love, is
released by The Penguin Press and featured
at Starbucks.

8. Looking Ahead
To date, more than 30 000 people have recorded
date 30,000 “The StoryCorps project may well be the
The
their stories, but StoryCorps has only begun to tap most important cultural event in America
its potential. today. It's about us. About who we are.
About where we've come from, and where
we want to go.”
Alex Kotlowitz
You can help us make StoryCorps more
Author and journalist
accessible to everyone. We want to visit more
cities and states, partner with more organizations,
and find new ways to inspire people to record and
preserve the stories of someone they love.
Together we can build StoryCorps into an
enduring American institution.
“This project makes it possible to connect
the past, present, and future. What can be
more exciting than that?”
Joyce Mathews, Atlanta

9. About our founder
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its
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parent company, Sound Portraits Productions.
Over the past two decades, his radio
documentary work has won nearly every award
in broadcasting, including five Peabody Awards,
two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and two
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Livingston Awards. Dave has also received a
Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), a MacArthur
Fellowship (2000), and a United States Artists
Fellowship (2006).
photo: Harvey Wang
He is the author (or co-author) of four books
based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side “By listening closely to one another,
of Chicago (Scribner, 1997) and Flophouse we can help illuminate the true
character of this nation – reminding
(Random House 2000). The first StoryCorps
House, 2000)
us all just how precious each day
book, Listening Is an Act of Love, was released can be and how truly great it is to
by Penguin in 2007, edited and with an be alive." Dave Isay
introduction by Dave.

10. StoryCorps-AtlantaProject
Atlanta has surprised StoryCorps with its appetite and
capacity to sustain a StoryBooth for multiple years.

11. The StoryCorps Atlanta Vision
To be the first city outside of Manhattan to host a
“permanent” StoryCorps StoryBooth
permanent
To promote StoryCorps and its recording opportunities
broadly and to diverse communities
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To make StoryCorps highly accessible via its Downtown
location at the Center for Civil and Human Rights
To make the stories themselves widely accessible via our
archive partner, the University System of Georgia

12. StoryCorps Atlanta’s staged approach
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Year 1 (August, 2009 Public Broadcasting Atlanta (“PBA”)
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Year 2 (2010): Public Broadcasting Atlanta
Year 3 (2011): Center for Civil and Human Rights (“CCHR”)
( CCHR )
Year 4 (2012): Center for Civil and Human Rights
Year 5 and beyond: Center for Civil and Human Rights

13. StoryCorps Atlanta
Contribution Methods:
Make an ONLINE Contribution:
http://cchrpartnership.com/Donations/tabid/1498/Def
ault.aspx
Host a “Home Event”
invite friends and family for a covered-dish supper to hear about
the Atlanta project and how they may participate
Participate as a $1000 “Give or Get Cornerstone Donor” by
making a direct contribution of $1000 or raising an equivalent
amount from your network
network.
Donate to the Annual StoryCorps Atlanta Benefit
Become a Corporate Sponsor
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14. StoryCorps Atlanta
Sponsorship Levels
Major Gifts: $25 000 and up
$25,000
Annual Event Sponsorship Opportunities:
$10,000
10 000
$7,500
$5,000
$2,500

15. StoryCorps Atlanta
About the Annual Donor Event
Event,
“Remember My Voice; Share My Story”
Venue: Gardens of Great Oaks
(www.historicgreatoaks.com)
Date: October 17, 2009
Time: 5pm to 9pm
Scope: 300 Guests; Fundraising goal: $200,000
VIPs: Mayor Shirley Franklin, Dave Isay (StoryCorps
founder), Vi i Shiller
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Advance Tickets: $75 (heavy hors’deuvres and wine
served)

16. StoryCorps Atlanta
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Sponsorship packages are designed to provide you with effective
exposure to the greater Atlanta Community.
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300 attendees expected
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Sponsor logo hyperlinked to your website from StoryCorps Atlanta
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Opportunity to market your company by networking with event
attendees, including private sector executives and public sector
officials. The Organizing Committee will ensure that our sponsors
receive maximum exposure to their target audience.
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Various sponsorship levels being offered including, Platinum,
Gold, Silver and Bronze. Depending on the level of participation,
your sponsorship benefits will begin to accrue much earlier
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before the event takes place.

17. StoryCorps Atlanta
PLATINUM LEVEL (up to 3 participants) $10,000
Exclusive sponsorship and recognition as principal sponsor of StoryCorps Atlanta Inaugural event
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Corporate logo displayed during event
Acknowledgement at opening and closing of this event
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Corporate logo on promotional information including emails and brochures
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GOLD SPONSOR $7,500
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Corporate logo on promotional information including emails and brochures
Full page advertisement in event program
Acknowledgement as a sponsor at inaugural event
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18. StoryCorps Atlanta
SILVER SPONSOR $5,000
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months
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BRONZE SPONSOR $2,500
Corporate logo hyperlinked to your website, on StoryCorps Atlanta website for 3
months
Corporate logo on promotional materials including emails and brochures
Acknowledgement as a sponsor at inaugural event
2 Complimentary tickets to StoryCorps Atlanta inaugural event

19. StoryCorps Atlanta
CONTACT INFORMATION:
LaBrita Cash-Baskett
PH (770) 317-5993 ljcash@hotmail.com
OR
Make an ONLINE Contribution at:
http://cchrpartnership.com/Donations/tabid/1498/Default.aspx
http://cchrpartnership com/Donations/tabid/1498/Default aspx