Mileage, lodging, expenses and probably a partial performance fee. I will research which elementary schools in south Texas (San Antonio to border) meet the 90/90/90 formula as defined by Dr. Sean Kearney, TAMU-SA. I will contact them and schedule a date with nine of them to provide 2 - 3 storytelling sessions in their school library. (By storytelling, I do not mean reading books aloud, rather the live delivery of traditional folktales, fairy tales, legends, ghost stories, etc. in the oral narrative tradition, human to human.) Oral storytelling promotes literacy and language skills as well as cultural understanding and insight; it stimulates imagination, compassion, and higher order thinking as part of a rich, shared experience.

The Colombian government has invited Happy Post to visit three villages affected by decades of armed conflict. With this grant, we can meet people directly impacted by the conflict, spread happiness in their communities, showcase their stories, and ultimately inspire lasting change. We have three goals. First, we’ll collect and deliver messages of support from the global Happy Post community to soldiers and civilians in conflict areas. Second, we’ll ask them to share their stories and perspectives of happiness. Finally, we’ll create a short documentary to share this experience. This project can be funded with this $3,000 grant, which will be used for flights, video equipment, production costs, and happiness workshops in each village.

Film is the best tool to tell a story. As a group of international artists from different mediums, theatre, design, music, dance and film we have created a movement where we share our experiences to create a collective vision of artistry. We believe art and culture can change and unite the world. The fund will allow us to buy the necessary materials for the play and the video to be made. That will include the renting of lights and equipment for media storage and the initial preproduction of the video. We will join together in VueltaBajo Theatre company in Barcelona for this production.

We hope to foster a productive dialogue that can address ways to combat stigmas and societal attitudes that we believe are harmful both to survivors of sexual violence and abuse, and to society as a whole. 1) $1,000 to maintain our website and towards setting up the proper resources for victims of abuse to access to help prevent sexual violence 2) $1,000 will be distributed amongst our team of outreach workers that will be going into their communities to help set-up and engage in activities and workshops geared toward raising awareness against sexual violence 3) $1,000 will go towards publicity and promoting the awareness of our site/program to share the stories and expressive arts of all of all of our victims, survivors and guest speakers.

The $3,000 will be used to host “Stories of the Forgotten Birthdays”, a fundraising event for Beverly's Birthdays, a non-profit organization that provides birthday celebrations to homeless youth living in transitional shelters in the Pittsburgh region. The event will showcase a video documentary (created through the use of the funds) that draws attention to the issue of childhood homelessness and highlights the services that Beverly’s Birthdays provides. Birthday party recipients will be featured on the video and they will share their stories. It is our hope that this event will raise awareness as well as funds so that Beverly’s Birthdays can provide birthday celebrations for all youth living in transitional shelters in Pittsburgh.

We will collect neighborhood stories in Little Rock through: - Individual interviews - Community meetings - Connecting with neighborhood coalitions We want the stories to be heard by GOOD and its readers as well as people across our city. We will enable people to share their stories however they chose, including: - Print publications - Podcasts - Videos - Public forums - Art exhibits In addition to purchasing the materials necessary for sharing the stories, we will also spend the money on: - Local food for meetings/events - Flyers/outreach for community meetings/events - Reserving meeting/event space - Cameras or voice recorders to allow people to record their own stories

Santa Fe is an art town, but what if that art was made of peoples' stories? Secrets and dreams are our own tiny narratives. The Box Project allows people to interact with their neighborhood and share their stories. Once you find a single secret or dream wheat-pasted on the side of a building or an alley, wouldn't you want to find more? The money from GOOD will go toward buying supplies for the project. Wheat-paste materials, boxes for submission, printing materials for the final installation (ink and newsprint paper). And, posters! We're going to need to make posters with instructions for participants, box locations around town and information about the project. And, I imagine there may need to be a permit required to use city property.

We will use these stories to teach rural communities about the importance of basic nutrition, water purification, first aid, and preventative healthcare, and to train more community health promoters. $3000 will cover the costs of: • Transportation for workshop participants, • A hands-free camcorder/tripod/microphone for filming, • A small stipend for a film student to record and edit the stories, and • Several portable, battery-operated projectors for easy sharing. Basic health education is essential to creating sustainable healthcare solutions in rural and developing communities. Help us to train health promoters and share their stories with rural villages throughout Ecuador. VOTE FOR TIMMY GLOBAL HEALTH today!

Step 1: Gather stories. Work with neighborhood associations to gather stories of the neighborhood and identify individuals who have stories to tell. Cost: supplies (tshirts to ID story collectors, brochures) $50 Step 2: Stories = art. Create story mobile and gallery-quality prints of stories with silhouette photos of the tellers. Cost: prints - $1,625 Step 3: Make connections. Host a show in a local studio space for one month for people to come, read stories, meet tellers. Cost: studio space - $500, opening refreshments - $230 Step 4: Take it with you. 50 printed 60-page soft cover books of the stories. Cost: books - $595

These videos are so important to TWLOHA and our audience because storytelling is an essential part of what do we. The "Story of" allows us to put a face to the issues so many struggle with. We only make a few videos a year because of the cost associated with filming. The $3,000 from GOOD would allow us to film two videos for this series by covering the cost of a videographer, equipment, travel expenses and location fees for a two day shoot.

$3000 from GOOD will fund storytelling events that will be held at The Bronx Museum. The goals are to provide a platform for voices that are not often heard, create a space for the community to come together, and challenge stereotypes. Starting in the South Bronx, we hope to build a movement and bring this program to other marginalized neighborhoods, fostering community pride, creative capital, and civic engagement. $3000 will allow us to hold events and cover the cost of: - producing and distributing marketing materials in order to reach a larger group of people - filming the event so that it can be shared with a wider community - modest honorariums for storytellers Help us strengthen community through neighborhood stories.

With this financial support, we will buy professional grade cameras and sound equipment so that our video quality improves. We also hope to purchase editing software, fund transportation to locations and support distribution costs. It is our greatest hope that in the future, we can create a full feature documentary of our local stories so that our local residents and others can learn more about the injustices occurring.

$3Gs will fund our PSAs on the radio and videos that we are doing for Condom Sense. Condom Sense unites the youth community of Kauai - we've heard keiki (children) mimicing our PSAs - to bring the community together through our "talk story" kinds of PSAs. Take a listen to them http://www.malama-pono.org/RadioSpots.aspx

We create Blogologues along different topics, and this summer we would like to mount a full run with a Tech theme. $3,000 pays for a 45-seat NYC theater for six performances; the remainder of the funds will go towards projections, costumes, props, and stipends for our cast and creative team. This version will encompass all things related to how our modern world communicates (text exchanges, dating profiles, missed connections, etc.). We also plan to crowdsource a post to perform, in an effort to further bridge the gap between blogger, audience, and actor. We hope to inspire audiences to reclaim face-to-face, human connection, and we believe that comedy is the ideal way to unite strangers in a shared experience.

The funds will be used to help support the work in the schools and create program kits to be provided for the teachers. The funds will be used to create a nation- wide website containing free digital resource kits on bullying for teachers and parents. This will also provide for the web design/hosting and can include digital editing. We will use some of the funds for the storytellers, who have agreed to a reduced rate, to share at more schools. This funding will help us address this subject in a way that will have resounding effects. We are offering help to 10 schools (and growing) to share how to address their student's stories and how best to listen to them. We want to show them their stories count. There is no cost to schools.

$3000 will fully fund scholarships for two nonprofit leaders, or partial for up to six leaders from grassroots community organizations with few professional development resources. Scholarships include lodging, food and four days of intensive storytelling training and practice.

This book series contains 12 books discussing various challenges kids face through the post divorce process & 12 parent companion books to wake these parents up & help them see what their behavior is doing tho their kids. Frankly, it not only affects the child's development but also affects the entire community (classrooms, work environments, courtrooms, gossip mills, etc) 3 of the books are finished but we need to complete the other 9. We also created a non-profit, plan be, Inc., which has a purpose of donating books & other therapeutic tools to divorce education groups, school counselors, therapists, churches, libraries, etc. Proceeds from book sales & our community came together to help fund this organization. Hopefully, GOOD will too!

The super 8 camera was the first consumer movie camera, completely changing who had access to capturing and sharing stories. That access is now commonplace. By coincidence, 1 reel of super 8 = ~3.5 minutes of film, the average length of YouTube productions today. In an era when cameras are everywhere, shooting on the first powerful format helps young people to understand + appreciate their place in the history of communication. It forces a deep understanding of the craft + results in a clearer sense of self + the environment. Ultimately, young people feel more empowered to shape the world through the power of storytelling. Funds will cover recruitment, film processing, transportion of participants as well as a film festival to share works.

This $3,000 will help fund our film production. We just returned from a 3-week shoot to get the kids backstories of poverty & hope in Uganda. Then we filmed their flight to America and their 1st week & 1st US concert. Over their yearlong tour we will film the kids experiencing many more firsts such as snow, elevators & singing with music legends such as Dierks Bentley and Broadway's The Lion King. We will also capture the children's transformation as they are educated & given a chance to shine. The Westerners who meet the Choir will have their eyes & hearts opened to both the need & beauty of Africa's most vulnerable kids. Finally, we'll return to Uganda w/the kids at end of tour and witness as they begin to make Uganda better!

We will partner with Hyalite Elementary School, whose efforts to enliven healthy play inspired their motto "Leave no child inside," to help children, parents, and grandparents share stories and re-imagine play in their lives. The funding we receive will enable us to facilitate the "play date," secure opportunities to display photos, stories, and new visions of play from this inter-generational experience in Bozeman and online. Funds will also support development and publication of a free guide to our process so that others may use our experience as a model for their own efforts to integrate more play into their lives and communities.