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| Founded | April 13, 2002[1] |
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| 13-3753011 | |
| Legal status | Active |
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Official language | English |
| Website | storycorps |
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization which aims to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. Its mission statement is "to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all—one story at a time". StoryCorps grew out of Sound Portraits Productions as a project founded in 2003 by radio producer David Isay. Its headquarters are located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
StoryCorps is modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the efforts of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews across the United States were recorded. Another inspiration for the organization was oral historian Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon at the opening of StoryCorps' first recording booth in Grand Central Terminal. To date, StoryCorps has collected and archived interviews with more than 645,000 participants [2] in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and several American territories.
- ^ "StoryCorps.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ^ Mike Wenninger (August 17, 2023). "StoryCorps revisits Kalamazoo to offer residents preservable story moments". Southwest Michigan's Second Wave. Retrieved 2024-01-26.