| Project StoryKeeper offers unique no cost fundraising programs for non-profits and associations by promoting the Great Heritage Campaign. The list below depicts some of the Campaigns we have underway. In addition, we have programs to train leaders within each organization to teach volunteers to record life memories and connect the family to share them. Please contact us for more information.
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Project Alzheimers
Every 71 seconds another person develops Alzheimer’s disease. Also every 71
seconds someone discovers that they are now the primary caregiver for an
Alzheimer’s victim. As the disease progresses the patient becomes less aware of
their circumstance while the problems and concerns for the caregiver only mount.
Project StoryKeeper – Alzheimer’s is designed to be an intervention program,
training the caregivers how to capture the life story of the patient. This
training will enable the Caregiver to start immediately preserving the memories,
experience and wisdom of the patient before the disease wipes it all away. There
is strong anecdotal evidence that this process can also help to retard the
advance of the disease through the cognitive exercise the program utilizes in
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Project Hospice StoryKeeper
Everyone has a story to tell. Project Hospice StoryKeeper is concerned about
those who have more stories to tell than time to tell them. We call them,
‘endangered stories’.
The goal of Project Hospice StoryKeeper is to provide training to hospice
organizations and their volunteers in Legacy Preservation. Preserving family
legacies through performing ‘life review’ interviews helps families to build
their private family archives through which they can share and build their
heritage. We believe that families well grounded in their heritage are better
able to withstand the forces in society that tear at the family structure. The
StoryKeeper process has ancillary benefits for the StoryTeller; helping them to
regain their sense of purpose and a vital role within the family structure.
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Veteran History Project
Project StoryKeeper in collaboration with the Veterans History
Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress is training volunteer storykeepers
to aid in the effort to collect and archive the oral histories of veterans and
their time of service to the country. These collected oral histories will be
available to future generations to learn first hand from those who lived the
experience. World War II veterans are departing from us at an alarming rate. It
is critical that we get as many storykeepers working to save their stories and
experience while we can. Of no less importance are those stories of other
veterans who served at different times and different theatres of conflict.
Enabling these veterans to tell their story, to make a difference in the future
of our great nation, to continue to serve with distinction, helps them to
overcome issues that continue to haunt them. Honor and respect is something that
they readily understand and greatly deserve.
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Project Native American
We are in the process of building a program to record the oral histories of
Native Americans. Values, Traditions and even dialects are being lost every
year. It is our goal to record the languages, culture and voice of our original
American ancestors.
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Project Holocaust
A
shrinking number of our citizens have experienced one of the greatest tragedies
of our time, the Holocaust. Today those who were very young at the time are
entering their later years. When they are gone only their photos and children
will survive. Project Holocaust will train key facilitators in Jewish
associations, groups, synagogues, and communities how to record these stories
before they are lost forever.
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Project African American
There is a disconnect between younger African Americans and their elders today.
Yet as they become middle aged they will want to know who their grandparents
were and what they were like. They need to understand and hear the words
directly from their source, their struggles to survive and succeed through the
challenges society presented them. Oral recorded stories provide the voice and
personality of the storyteller. In their own words African American elders can
tell the stories of their great grandparents. These stories will be lost for
ever if they are not recorded soon.
Project African American is a dedicated project requiring sponsorship to
capture these life stories. We will train groups of people in targeted areas who
can go into the community and preserve these precious memories for future
generations.
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Project Family Connections
The objective of Project Family Connections is to provide the platform and training to volunteers to facilitate recording the life stories of thousands of elderly seniors and establishing private family networks. Once these networks are established in the Treasury of Family Heritage the volunteers will train the seniors how to utilize their network allowing them to re-connect with their family in meaningful and productive ways. We believe that providing this service will give voice to family members who have been unintentionally excluded. We are in effect Re-Inventing the Extended Family |
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