StoryCorps

General Support

2017

$100,000

When StoryCorps released Who We Are, a 12-episode series of animated shorts funded by RPF in 2016, the project garnered more than 40 million views online. Today, the media organization is working to increase its impact by reaching an even larger and more diverse audience with its empathy-producing content. As part of this effort, StoryCorps is studying which themes and stories resonate best in different parts of the U.S. It is also launching a new initiative to engage liberal and conservative listeners in conversation, working with tech partners to develop tools to facilitate virtual connections (such as mobile recording booths wired for conferencing), and pursuing new platforms for large-scale distribution. Support from RPF will enable StoryCorps to take these steps in support of its larger goal: using storytelling to reveal the shared humanity of people who are different.