Programs

  • Immigrant Storytelling and Education Program

    We achieve our program objectives and our mission through online videos, traveling exhibits, auto-biographical books and teaching guides, speaking events, Story Stitch Circles, and a podcast. Our 500 plus online video narratives of immigrants from over 150 countries are viewed 350,000 times annually. We have displayed our traveling exhibits at over 200 locations and they have been viewed by over 200,000 people. Our books have sold over 60,000 copies since May 2016. Our books have won several national awards, including Best Multicultural Non-Fiction Chapter Book from the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, and others. We have held in-person and virtual book readings at schools, libraries, universities, conferences, writing festivals and churches that have reached over 25,000 people. Our staff has given lectures and trainings throughout the Twin Cities in schools, at organizations, with public agencies, and at conferences. These presentations often include immigrant storytellers. Together with 70 community members in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we co-created Story Stitch, a conversational card deck designed to facilitate telling stories, opening minds, and helping people get to know their neighbors. We've sold over 5,000 decks, trained 150 people in Story Stitch Circle facilitation, and engaged over 100,000 people of different backgrounds in deep story sharing. In March 2020 we used the co-creation process to come up with Virtual Story Stitch with additional questions related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
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    $231.2K