(Out)Laws & Justice
Nonprofit organization that offers an eighth-grade interdisciplinary curriculum of history/social studies, language arts and drama. Students to critically reflect on the values that drove U.S. westward expansion and its legacy in their lives. Project culminates in student–written and –performed plays. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.

826
826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. For children, classes and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Free drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, in-schools programs, seminars, services and resources for English language learners. College scholarships, student publications, retail stores. Chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Michigan and Boston. Flagship, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, founded 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari.

Act/Write
Ongoing collaboration in Chicago, Ill., between Free Street Programs and Columbia College's Fiction Writing Department using theater practices to generate writing. Trains both college teachers and middle-school writing students using Story Workshop techniques.

Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
Provides opportunities for artists and writers to work in Antarctica. By National Science Foundation.

Arthur+martha Community Interest Company
Arts-and-health organization that runs art/poetry workshops with older people in hospitals and the community in North West England using experimental techniques. Exhibitions, publications. Kindess project with older Jewish people in Manchester. Working with Manchester Metropolitan University on research to help formulate future national arts-and-health policy.

Arts & Equity Initiative
Participatory arts project for city employees in Portland, Maine. Arts workshops for workers in the city's Public Works, Health & Human Services, Police Department and more. Prints, poems, collages and photographs now hang in a new City Hall gallery, in the mechanics garage, landfill, healthcare facility, general assistance offices and police roll callroom. Products include annual Police Poetry Calendars; "Work," essays, stories and poems by City Writers Group, all city employees; and "home land security," a community performance. Founded 2007. Directed by artist Marty Pottenger.

Arts & Spirituality Center
Nonsectarian organization in Philadelphia, Pa., founded by a group of artists and spiritual leaders to focus on social and personal healing through interplay of artistic and spiritual expression. Arts After School program, MasterPeace program, Interfaith Youth Poetry Project, Drums for Peace music program and Teens United Performing Arts Project. Has worked with private, charter and public schools, after-school programs, serving primarily low-income, “at-risk” youth. Founded 2000.

Arts Share
Community arts program of the University of Iowa's Division of Performing Arts, School of Art and Art History and Writers' Workshop. Interactive performances, workshops, readings, residencies and master classes statewide by faculty artists and graduate students. School programs, Arts Share Summer Camp, Patient Voice Project offering creative writing classes to chronically ill hospital patients.

Associated Writing Programs
National service organization supporting more than 18,000 writers at over 320 member colleges and universities and 80 writers' conferences and festivals. Publisher of journal The Writer's Chronicle.

Banned Books
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books, sorted by initiator, institution, type, year. Compiled by American Library Association.

Break Arts Collective
International arts and learning collaborative. Text/image projects ihat encourage young people to imagine, create and express the stories of their lives. Arts workshops and residencies; training and professional development; consultation; advocacy. Directed by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire; established 2005.

COMPAS
Community-driven Minneapolis organization offering WAITS (Writers and Artists in the Schools), grants to neighborhood arts projects addressing social issues, cultural arts presentations in the schools, Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative and arts activities for battered women.

California Council for the Humanities
Outstanding state humanities program. Award-winning projects in film, radio, new media, exhibitions, family literacy, community heritage, literary anthologies, live Chautauqua performances, newsletter. Important California Stories Survey in 2001.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Dedicated to preservation, perpetuation, enlivening and promotion of Indian story and storytelling, in both traditional form and contemporary experience. Festival, symposia.

Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Learning and arts center in a former Carnegie Library in Lexington, Ky. Programming for professional writers. Fosters improved literacy levels in local community. Gallery, performing arts, home to learning and arts organizations and writing/book discussion groups.

Center for Digital Storytelling
Dedicated to the intersection of the storytelling arts and digital media. Trains multimedia producers in developing short stories based in personal image archives. Based at UC Berkeley, directed by Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, N.C., center connecting the documentary arts to education and community life. Programs include Community Stories, Literacy Through Photography, Document Durham: The Neighborhoods Project, The Jazz Loft Project, Hine Documentary Fellows Program, Regarding Race, and Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South. Publishes Document magazine. Based at Duke University.

Central Falls Voices and Visions
Essays and photos from Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities family-history project with Projecto Latino and two dozen 11-16-year-olds.

Changing Lives Through Literature
Alternative sentencing program requiring offenders to read as a condition of probation. Based at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth English Dept. Founded 1991 in New Bedford, Mass., by Professor Robert Waxler, Judge Robert Kane and Probation Officer Wayne St. Pierre; replicated nationally and internationally. Site offers instructions on how to start a program, studies and results, instructional materials, court forms and methods, bibliographies, newsletter.

Circle of Stories
Online resources about Native American storytelling. Includes stories, gallery, language and land issues, community, teachers' guide. An Electric Shadows Project by ITVS Interactive.

City of Asylum, Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa., sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment or persecution in their native countries. Provides housing, medical benefits, living stipend, help in securing publishers and long-term employment. Educates public on issues relating to freedom of creative expression and multi-cultural collaboration through literary arts and jazz presentations, educational programs with schools and in the community, print and online publications, and text-based public art projects, Web magazine.

Clabber, Coal & Ceilidh
Project at Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange, May 2006; 170 primary-school children and support staff from four primary schools attended workshops looking at mining life through dance, poetry and drama, song and percussion. Site includes feedback from students, teachers.

Class Acts Arts Inc.
Arts outreach and presenting organization bringing performances, workshops and artist residencies to schools and communities, at-risk youth, seniors and special needs populations in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Project Youth ArtReach: visual, literary and performing arts programs and residencies to youth in Washington, D.C., area juvenile correctional settings, alternative schools and a statewide mentoring program for court-involved youth.

Combining Bibliotherapy and Positive Role Modeling as an Alternative to Incarceration
A study evaluating Changing Lives Through Literature, a "bibliotherapy" program designed as an alternative to jail. Follows-up the first 32 men to complete the program; matched comparison with group of 40 probationers. Indicates a reconviction rate of 18.75% in the study group, compared with 45% in the comparison group. Includes information from interviews with program participants. Written by G. Roger Jarjoura and Susan T. Krumholz; published in Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (Vol. 28 (1/2), 1998, Pp. 127-139) by Hawthorn Press, 1998.

Comic Book Project
Arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Goal is to help children forge an alternative pathway to literacy by writing, designing and publishing original comic books. Used naitonally in hundreds of urban, rural schools. Created by director Michael Bitz.

Community Performance, Inc.
Production team creating community-based, site-specific theatrical productions that rebuild and rediscover community through the power of storytelling, led by Richard Owen Geer, founding director of Swamp Gravy. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Community-Word Project
New York City-based arts-in-education organization serving children in underserved communities through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. Artists lead creative writing, performance and visual-arts literacy workshops in public-school classrooms. Creative Expression Literacy Workshops culminate in indoor murals that feature the participants' writing and tour the U.S.; on-site literacy workshops at local businesses; online writing exchanges; after-school programs, annual Teaching Artist Information Job Fair Panel.

Cornerstone Theater Company
L.A.-based company that builds bridges between and within diverse communities; work often includes first-time community collaborators alongside experienced professionals in new adaptations of classic texts. Offers internship training in community arts techniques.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Membership organization offering small publisher resources: newsletter, help with circulation and marketing,, e-mail lists, online chat, job book, directory, venue database, publications.

Critical Breakdown
Hip-hop activist program committed to engaging young people in social change. Based in Boston, Mass., and supported by American Friends Service Committee. Monthly open mics, conferences, participation in rallies, protests and marches

CubaNow.net
Cuban digital magazine of arts and culture.

Digital Storytelling Association
International membership organization dedicated to evolving the practice of digital storytelling by providing services, advocacy, resources and information

Discovering Your Community through Oral History
"E-Seminar 1, How to Create a Community Oral-History Project." An online seminar from Columbia Interactive. Taught by Mary Marshall Clark, director of Columbia University Oral History Office, "the world's first official oral-history archive." How to do an oral-history interview and organize/operate a project. Includes audio and text examples. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Documentary Gallery of Student Action with Farmworkers
Project of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworks (SAF). whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change. Gallery exhibits online.

East Cumbria Countryside Project
rural management agency in northwest England. Works to create a diverse and thriving rural area, high quality landscape and wildlife, recreational access, regeneration based on sustainable management of natural resources. Includes Andy Goldworthy's Sheepfolds Sculture Trail and a Poetry Path by local poet Meg Peacocke and stone lettering artist Pip Hall.

Exiled Writers Ink
Based in London, England. Facilitates dissemination of work by writers in exile and refugees, and act as a pressure group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide. Monthly Poetry Café, readings, seminars, workshops, conferences, interactive performances, festivals, publications, translations, collaborations, school programs. Exiled Ink magazine.

Feral Arts
Based in Brisbane, Australia, using new media for community cultural development. "Placeworks" project enables communities to share histories online. Online "globosaurus.net" project for community cultural workers responding to impacts of global development.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
Founded in Harlem, N.Y., 1971, Schulberg and Fred Hudson. Writing classes, after-school program in creative writing and computer literacy for elementary and middle-school students. Produces the annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Music.

Freedom Writers Foundation
Nonprofit organization founded in 1997 by Erin Gruwell, dedicated to positively impacting communities by decreasing high-school drop-out rates through replication and enhancement of the Freedom Writers Method. Teacher training through Freedom Writers Institute; scholarship program. Book: "The Freedom Writers Diary" by Gruwell and the Freedom Writers (basis for 2006 Paramount/MTV film).

Gas & Electric Arts
Philadelphia-based theater company that offers Boal-technique "Surge" workshops for negotiating conflict and building community, and "Generating: Real Stories Real People" storytelling and wine-tasting events at local restaurant. Founded by Lisa Jo Epstein and David Brown.

Gateless Gate Zen Center
Gainesville, Florida, organization with volunteer programs in 11 state and federal prisons throughout North Central Florida, ranging from local jails to Death Row, where they share their Zen practice. Programs: retreats, book distribution, Spanish/English translations, inmate writings posted on Web (including writing by an executed prisoner), Mind Body Stress Reduction, links to prison activism and the Prison Dharma Network. A Cross-Sector Resource.

George Moses Horton Project
A multidisciplinary project celebrating memory of George Moses Horton, slave who became Poet Laureate of Chatham County, N.C.

Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go
All-women workshop group based in Southern California focusing on empowerment of young women through production of fanzines and self-published works. Workshops in community venues and college campuses in SoCal region. Founded 2002 by Elke Zobl, founder of Grrrl Zine Network.

Healing Story Alliance
Network that explores and promotes the use of storytelling in healing. Site has Treasure Chest of stories with teller notes, Stories for Children in Crisis, Peace Tales, Stories of Self and Community, newsletter, articles, book reviews, bibliography. Special interest group of National Storytelling Network.

Home land security
Community arts performance project created by Marty Pottenger, commissioned by Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Me. Civic-dialogue project in response to post-9/11 immigrant and refugee sweeps in Maine. Attempt to foster connections between radical left and right elements of the area. Site has performance excerpts, videos, reviews, plus related history and politics info.

I-10 Witness Project
Community-based story collective Louisiana artists, educators and community organizers documenting stories from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through sound and video. Interviews online with displaced citizens in shelters, relief workers, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, artists, medical staff, city planners, government officials. Partners include Mondo Bizarro, ArtSpot Productions, Xavier University Department of Communication, Nunez Community College Audio-Visual Archive, Center for Digital Storytelling. Plans to make interviews available through partnerships with public broadcast networks and credible local, state and national oral-history archives.

ImaginOn
Collaborative venture of the Public Library the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, N.C., occupying entire city block. Library, museum, theater, Story Lab, Tech Central, Teen Loft, classes.

Indivisible
National documentary project exploring community life in the U.S. through photographs and recordings of stories of struggle and change in 12 communities.

InkTank
Service organization for writing and literacy initiatives in Cincinnati, Ohio, offering range of programs from basic literacy training to advanced creative writing workshops. Provides area writers with venues for readings, publication and conversation. Supports writing initiatives within agencies serving the homeless, those in recovery and those suffering the effects of poverty. Located in Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

International Playback Theatre Network
Association of Playback supporters, practitioners and groups. Everything you need to know about Playback. Journal, newsletter, calendar.

Iowa Roots
Music, stories and talk with Iowa traditional artists. By Iowa Arts Council and Iowa State University Radio Group.

Journal of Ordinary Thought
Journal of Neighborhood Writing Alliance, publishing writing from workshops with people from low- and no-income neighborhoods in Chicago, Ill.

Judith Tannenbaum
Writer with extensive experience in arts-in-corrections and teaching in all kinds of schools. Training coordinator of San Francisco Writerscorps. Author of "Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin." Site is excellent link to prison poets, journalists, teaching in prison and prison issues.

Katha
Nonprofit media organization in India working� in story, storytelling and story in culturelinking and education. Started in 1988 by Geeta Dharmarajan. Includes the Center for Sustainable Learning and the Story Research and Resource Centre.

Laundromat Project
Two laundromat arts centers in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, N.Y. City; functioning neighborhood coin-operated laundromats where art classes are taught and visual art displayed "to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation." Programs: Create Change public art residency; Coin-Op Collective Professional Development for Artists and Social Entrepreneurs; Works in Progress arts-education. Staffed by volunteers, graduate students, and undergraduate interns. Founded by Risë Wilson.

Making Books Sing
Children's theater and arts-education organization. Productions based on outstanding contemporary children's books that honor children - their struggles growing up, their cultural diversity and their intellect. School-based artist residencies, professional-development programs for teachers, teacher's resource curriculum packets, parent-child workshops. Based in New York, N.Y.

Many Versions of Masculine: An Exploration of Boys’Identity Formation through Digital Storytelling in an Afterschool Program
Qualitative research that features case studies of nine urban boys of color, aged nine to 11, who participated in an after-school program where they learned to create digital multimedia texts. Argues for recognition of and support for the different functions such programs can serve when structured as alternative spaces for learning and identity formation. Written by Glynda A. Hull, Nora L. Kenney, Stacy Marple, & Ali Forsman-Schneider; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
After-school program since 1976 that trains young people to document life in Claiborne County, Miss. Has Peanut Butter and Jelly Theater, troupe of seven high-school students who do stage productions promoting literacy. Also Young Person's Cultural Exchange program.

Moving Stories
Stories about rail travel and journeys through the ages: fiction, non-fiction, anecdotes and poems from around the world. Submitted online to U.K.'s National Railway Museum's Railfest 2004 celebration commemorating 200 years of the railway.

Murmur
[murmur] is an audio storytelling project that uses mobile phones to share first-person narratives and location-specific stories. Green [murmur] signs (with telephone number and unique code for that location) indicate the availability of stories. By mobile phone, pedestrians hear short stories about the place they are standing, in the storyteller's own voice. Launched in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada; Ediburgh, Scotlan; San Jose, California; Dublin, Ireland.

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

My History is America's History
Millennium project at the National Endowment for the Humanities Web site, a family-history project on the endowment's "virtual front porch."

My Mississippi Eyes
Project at Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss., training students (through poetry, short stories, drama and music) to conduct workshops for their peers on historic migration of blacks from Mississippi to Chicago. By Mississippi Algebra Project, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Mississippi Arts Commission, and M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

National Association of Poetry Therapy
International membership organization of poets, writers, journalkeepers, helping professionals, health care professionals, and educators who work in mental health, medical, geriatric, therapeutic, educational and community settings. Encompasses bibliotherapy (interactive use of literature) and journal therapy (the use of life-based reflective writing) as well as therapeutic storytelling, the use of film in therapy, and other language-based healing modalities. Publications, annual conference, newsletter, events, info on training and certification. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Steinbeck Center
Community arts center in Salinas, Calif., in tribute to writer John Steinbeck and his "belief that the arts should be enriching to the community and relevant to everyday life." Archive displays, art and history exhibitions, lectures, repertory film series, schools programs, community artist residency, community collaborations, 10,000 Poems Project.

National Storytelling Network
Member organization with direct services, publications and educational opportunities to individuals, local storytelling guilds and associations. National Storytelling Conference, National Storytelling Awards, Storytelling Magazine, National Storytelling Directory, Annual "Tellabration." Web site with calendar, Cyber Cafe resources. Annual Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling.

National Writing Project
Teachers teaching teachers about writing. Network of 166 sites in the U.S., Canada and Europe, with links to sites and homepages. Magazine, newsletter and books.

Neighborhood Story Project
Works with high-school students and their families to write about their lives and neighborhoods. Based at John McDonogh Senior High in New Orleans, La. Co-sponsored by Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans, University of New Orleans and New Orleans Saints' player Steve Gleason's One Sweet World Foundation.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Creates opportunities for adults in low-income Chicago neighborhoods to write, publish and perform works about their lives. Works are published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT). Founded 1996 by Hal Adams, Deborah Epstein and Sunny Fischer, and grew out of JOT, founded by Hal Adams in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, JOT was sponsored by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

New Village
Journal of community building, sustainable cultures, elightened community planning, development and revitalization.

New York Community Writers Coalition
Community writing organization in New York City. Provides free creative writing workshops "for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society, including at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, seniors and others." Publications and public readings.

New York State Literary Center
Founded 1979 by Dale Davis and A. Poulin Jr. One of the first upstate New York arts organizations to send writers into public schools on a regular basis: 250 writers and artists worked with 30,000 children in 500 rural, urban and alternative schools. Projects: High School Literary Magazine; AIDS ‘N US, a peer-directed high-school AIDS-education project; The High School Research Paper A New Approach: Books, Photography, and Video; programs for teachers on children and divorce, race, war; Arts, Literacy and The Classroom Community, serving incarcerated adolescents; The Communications Project, writing program for at-risk youth and publisher of books, CDs, theater pieces.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Venue serving New York City's Lower East Side slam poetry, hip-hop, music and film communities. Founded 1973 by Miguel Algarin.

Open Book
Minneapolis, Minn., center for reading, writing and book arts, founded by charter tenants The Loft, Milkweed Editions and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
NEA writing program for U.S. military personnel and their families. Workshops, online tutorials, publications. Supported by Dept. of Defense, Southern Arts Federation and Boeing Co.

Oral History Association
Serves the field of oral history, encouraging standards of excellence in collection, preservation, dissemination and uses of oral testimony. Based at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.

PEN Prison Writing Program
Annual writing awards for prisoners. Open to anyone incarcerated in a federal, state or county prison. Sponsored by PEN American Center.

Playwrights Project
Enlightened playwriting program for kids and older people, based in San Diego, Calif.

Poetry Daily
Anthology of contemporary poetry books, magazines and journals currently in print. New poem posted daily, with e-mail delivery option including poetry news.

Poetry Workshop Planning Guide
Manual to help high-schoolers teach poetry to junior-high students, including writing activities they can use when creating their own six-month curricula. From New Urban Arts in Providence R.I., an interdisciplinary art studio and gallery for high-school students.

Poets Against the War
Online anthology of works by poets across the globe in response to possible U.S. war in Iraq. Founded 2003 by poet Sam Hamill upon being invited to a White House poetry symposium, which was subsequently canceled.

Points of Entry: Crosscurrents in Storytelling
Publication that encourages "narrative journalism" by crossing storytelling with reporting, fiction and oral tradition.

Prime Time Family Reading Time
Reading, discussion and storytelling program at public libraries across Louisiana (and going national). Weekly sessions for whole low-literacy, low-income families based on award-winning children's books. Sponsored by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

Printed Matter
The New York artists' bookstore, online: 20,000 titles by 5,000 artists worldwide. In-print and out-of-print artists' books, publications, multiples. Inventory searchable six ways.

Project Row Houses
22 renovated shotgun-style houses in Houston's historic African-American Third Ward dedicated to revolving art, photography and literary projects, plus transitional housing and services for young mothers and their children. Directed by Rick Lowe. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Puppetry in Practice (PIP)
"Literacy through the Arts." Nonprofit organization developed with Brooklyn College and CUNY. Conducts school residencies, afterschool workshops and parent literacy programs, teacher training seminars and graduate courses. Operates a resource center on the Brooklyn College campus and a community center, the PIP Museum, which hosts training seminars and special events. Methodology is centered on the use of folklore, storytelling and puppetry. Founded 1980 by ESL (English as a Second Language) educator Tova Ackerman.

Radius of Arab American Writers
RAWI, progressive membership organization of fiction and nonfiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, artists who work with words and academics of Arab heritage from the Arab lands. Largely concerned with English-medium literary works and professionals working in English, and issues of social justice. Annual conference, newsletter, opportunities, members' writings and profiles.

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America
Survey of 17,000 adults showing fewer than half of American adults (45 percent/93 million) now read literature; 10 percent drop from 1982 to 2002. Written, published by National Endowment for the Arts, 2004.

River of Words
International environmental poetry and art contest for children on the theme of "watersheds," encouraging children to learn their "ecological address" and to describe through art their own "place in space."

Robert Bowne Foundation
Supports development of out-of-school-hours literacy programs for children and youth in New York City, especially in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Grants and technical assistance, publications, e-newsletter, bibliography, links to field. Afterschool Matters Initiative: Journal, Occasional Papers, research grants, fellowships.

San Francisco WritersCorps
Writers-in-service: published poets, fiction writers, performers conducting workshops with youth aged 6-21, primarily low-income, incarcerated, immigrant, homeless or educationally disadvantaged. Workshops occur in public schools, community centers, detention facilities, after-school programs, low-income housing. Annual anthology of youth writing; writing contests; performances at community venues. A project of San Francisco Arts Commission.

Scrap Mettle SOUL
Community-performance organization based in Chicago, Ill., founded by Community Performance Inc.

Senior Artist Project
Grant program supporting educational, mentoring and therapeutic community projects conducted by literary, visual or performing artists 55 and older in northern San Diego or southern Orange counties in California. Provides stipends and expenses. Project of the Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation,

Shared History
Family history project by descendants of slaves and slave owners from Woodlands Plantation, Midway, S.C. Directed by Felicia Dryden.

Shelter Against Violence: a case for empowerment
Art-and-technology research project as a vehicle for the empowerment of domestic violence survivors as they learn interdisciplinary art skills and increase computer competency. Shelter residents participate in a storytelling-centered learning experience where they will contribute images, text and sound bytes toward the development of their personal narrative.Community partnership between the Arts Media and Engineering Program at Arizona State University, and the YWCA of Maricopa County Haven House shelter.

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness
Coalition of poets, writers, artists and activists providing opportunities for poetry to "act as an agent for social change." Bi-annual poetry festival in Washington, D.C., featuring readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, film, activism. Ongoing readings, contests, publications, advocacy and other activities throughout the year.

Story Bridges
Community Storytelling Connections, designed to bring community storytellers from many cultural traditions into North Carolina classrooms. Directed by storyteller Louise Omoto Kessel.

Story Circle Network
Texas-based membership organization dedicated to helping women tell their personal stories. Publications, classes, workshops, annual conference, events, writing and reading circles and woman-focused programs.

Story Workshop (Malawi)
Artist-scholar team "creating entertainment for social change in Malawi" on behalf of human rights, democracy, AIDS education, literacy, etc. Using radio, TV, comics, village drama.

StoryCorps
National project to instruct and inspire people to record one another's stories in sound. Building StoryBooths (soundproof recording studios) in N.Y., across the U.S., plus mobile booths, to record broadcast-quality interviews with help of a trained Facilitator. Griot Initiative: to collect interviews from at least 1,750 African Americans in 2007 and 2008. E-mail list, podcasts.

Students at the Center
Independent writing-based program directly serving high schools and middle schools in Orleans Parish public school system of New Orleans, La. Student mentor program, staff development for teachers, teen newspaper, teen and multiple-school forums, talk show, publications, media projects, community collaborations.

Suitcases and Sanctuary
Exhibition by local London children with actors, poets and artists exploring history of waves of immigration that shaped Spitalfields neighborhood. Installed at 19 Princelet Street, home to waves of French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, Bengali and Somali newcomers. Exhibition and house preserved by The Spitalfields Centre charity.

Swamp Gravy
Georgia's official "folklife play," based on the small town of Colquitt's oral history and performed by the people who live there; outstanding example of new community theater. Has Swamp Gravy Institute for community theater training.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Online network with Virtual Poetry Workshop, listserv, Writers on Teaching, Writers on Writing, Student Poem of the Month.

The Art of Democracy - Democracy as Art: Creative Learning in Afterschool Comic Book Clubs
Analysis and synthesis of national launch of The Comic Book Project, an arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Paper examines the children's processes and products through the lens of John Dewey's "Democracy and Education." Written by Michael Bitz (project founder); published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

The Fray
Archetypal story-collecting site.

The SageWriters Inc.
Publisher of books "of literary and social merit by prisoners, families, victims, activists, visionaries and progressive corrections professionals working to give an artistic voice to movements for change." Internet radio show, "Healing Justice"; workshops; trainings programs; high-school courses; conferences. Founded by Judith Truestone.

The Stone Library
Web site of British poet/public artist Alyson Hallett. Her ongoing project, "the migration habits of stones," involves carrying stones around the world with words carved into them. This site documents other public art projects by Hallett, including poetry in the pavement in Milsom Street, Bath; windows in Bradley Stoke Library, Bristol, with text written by young people who attended workshops run by Hallett in the local youth club; poetry sited on a garage in Hartland, Devon, during a residency at The Small School; poems and text on the windows of St. Matthias Library, Bristol; and more. "The Stone LIbrary" is also the title of a book of her poems, published by Peterloo poets in 2007.

The Storyteller and the Listener Online
Interactive, noncommercial newsletter-blog that publishes two guest essays each month from around the world on the role of story and narrative in community peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation.

The Telling Room
Nonprofit writing program in Portland, Maine, dedicated to young writers and storytellers between the ages of 8 and 18. "The goal is simple: To meet each student's passion for writing with equal enthusiasm, to provide role models for those looking to further their writing, and to privilege the act of storytelling as a vital means of expression and community building." Writing center, Living Writers Series round-table craft talks, workshops, contests, special projects, curricula, publications, online writing gallery. Co-founded by writers Susan Conley and Sarah Corbett.

Third World Majority
New-media training and production resource center "run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing." Community digital storytelling workshop, COINTELNOW security training initiative, participation in Media Justice and Technology Organizing movement, community training and education, facilitative production (consulting support to organizations seeking to define and share their story and mission), Storylink 1.0., community organizing and media services, blog. National partnerships.

Thousand Kites
Storytelling and listening project about the criminal-justice system. Gathering prison-related stories through community story circles, house parties, call-ins to a weekly radio broadcast, a toll-free phone line and interactive script-writing room on the project Web site. They will create a play script from the gathered stories, offered free for use in any community. Project of Appalshop.

TimeSlips
Creative storytelling project for people with Alzheimer's Disease and dementia. Training, manual, bulletin board, newsletter.

Tramtactic
Australian "organic non-organisation of people who come together with artist Mick Douglas to undertake art projects in the public domain departing from the potential of tramways." Temporary public art events, many aboard trams in both Australia and India; publication.

Triple Canopy
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based organization that "works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large." Online magazine, public programs, print publications encompassing various fields and locales. Founded late 2007.

Two Girls Working
Renee Piechocki and Tiffavy Ludwig investigating feminism through community arts dialogue.

Unconditional Theatre
Documentary theater company that explores contemporary issues and events with the actual words, stories, and participation of those involved. Documentary performances in community settings, Story Swaps (participatory storytelling events), Political Dialogues (readings of newspapers & ballot books) and Unconditional Testimonials (interview-based performances honoring individuals). Based in Berkeley, Calif.

Unit for the Arts and Offenders
U.K.-based umbrella organization that supports the development of the arts within criminal justice settings. Focus on prisoner literacy and hard evidence of educational value of prison arts programs. Publications.

Urban Word NYC
Youth-run program provides free creative writing, spoken word, performance and Hip-Hop resources to teenagers in New York City. Annual Teen Poetry Slam.

VOICES
"Community stories past and present, inc." Community-based nonprofit organization in Tucson, Ariz. Mentors low-income youth in telling their stories using photography, photo documentation, creative nonfiction, journalism, oral history, digital storytelling, spoken word and dance. Projects: 110° After School Magazine Project, DAMN, Living Stories Project, Looking Forward/Looking Back, South Park, WW2 Stories. Publications.

Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art
Online annotated/illustrated directory of art materials related to the Nazi Holocaust and many other genocides: museum exhibitions & catalogues, artist responses, public Holocaust memorials, Web links, histories, narratives, photos, documents, educational resources, bibliography. Project of Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U. of Minnesota.

Voices Breaking Boundaries
Nonprofit organization bringing artists and issues to Houston, Texas, through productions, residencies and educational activity to "join people from all walks of life: immigrants from countries such as Afghanistan , Bosnia , Colombia , Haiti , and Norway ; local communities in West Houston ’s large Vietnamese population and Houston ’s Third Ward; and all ages ranging from babies and their parents, to teens and seniors." Provides support network for writers to practice, publish, perform and receive recognition for their work. Began as grassroots literary collective organized by five diverse women writers. Founding Director Sehba Sarwar.

Voices UnBroken
Bronx-based community organization that believes "everyone has a story to tell, and that story is important. " Creative writing workshops in prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers and other alternative settings. Founded in 2001 by Victoria Sammartino.

William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
Research/study center at University of Massachusetts, Boston, that provides educational and other services to veterans, conducts research and makes policy recommendations, and encourages teaching and scholarship on the Vietnam War and social consequences. Writing training program, cultural exchange with Vietnam, exhibitions, lectures, readings, performances, annual Summer Institute on War and Social Consequences. Founded 1982 in response to initiative of the university's large student veteran population; named after William Joiner, African-American veteran and the university's first director of veterans' affairs. Directed by poet and Vietnam veteran Kevin Bowen. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Write Around Portland
Community writing organization in Portland,Ore., that "helps people transform their lives and our community" through writing workshops, published anthologies and public readings. Web site offers help with using freewrites and prompts (with examples).

WriteGirl
Writing workshop for inner-city high-school girls, supported by 40 professional women writers in Los Angeles, Calif. Program of Community Partners.

WriteNet
Resource for writers and teachers interested in teaching imaginative writing.

Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics
Press of College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis, Minn. Home of "Xcp: Streetnotes, a biannual online exhibition space devoted to Poetry, Ethnography and the Documentary Experience."

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago youth writing organization for teens and practicum site of Columbia College's AYCD graduate program.

Young Native Voices: Theater Education Project
Workshops and residencies for Native American youths at the Southern California Indian Center (Fountain Valley) and the American Indian Clubhouse (Los Angeles). Nationwide outreach residency program to U.S. reservations by Native Voices theater artists and mentors. Formerly known as Native Voices Young Playwrights Project. Project of Native Voices at the Autry program at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

Youth Communications
Writing program for urban teens in New York City. Publishes "New Youth Connections," citywide, teen-written magazine with a readership of 200,000 teens and adults; "Foster Care Youth United, bimonthly magazine by and for teens in NYC's foster-care system; and paperback anthologies of articles from the two mags.

Youth Speaks
National youth poetry, spoken word, and creative writing program based in San Francisco. Calif. Created Teen Poetry Slam, Brave New Voices, Bringing the Noise Reading Series, Living Word Project, writers-in-residence.

ear say
Organization producing documentary/expressive projects that "uncover and portray the uncelebrated" in books, cds, electronic media, performances and workshops crossing cultures, generations, gender and class. Projects include "Crossing the Boulevard," about the ethnically diverse New York neighborhood of Queens. Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, directors

everyday gandhis
Storytelling project collecting stories of ordinary people creating peace in their communities, particularly in hot spots around the world, utilizing media of all types (visual, written, spoken).