The Facing Project
Every Community Has a Story, What's Yours?
Connecting people through stories to strengthen communities.
Communities + Campuses
Share stories of citizens through the talent of local writers, artists, and actors.
Stories
Writers take on the voice of their subjects and write about them.
Speaking
Bring us to your campus or community to talk about the power of stories.
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Books Distributed
20+
Communities
1,000+
Volunteers
450+
Stories Shared
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Featured Story: I’m a Fool for Christ — In Memory of Facing Project Writer Sarah Hendrix
On February 11, 2015, Union College professor and Facing Project writer Sarah Hendrix was tragically killed. This post, and this week’s Featured Story, is in her memory. Just the other day I was pitter-pattering across the belt of an old, dusty treadmill at my gym trying to recount the ups and downs of my day. […]
Featured Story: Finding Home
It’s easy to dismiss a person if you don’t know their story. I’ve done it before. As much as I have been engaged in and with communities for the last two decades, it wasn’t until I was involved with Circles of Delaware County through TEAMWork for Quality Living that I realized how much I had […]
Facing Stories: Victoria Engelhardt Inspires Students to Live Their Best Story
At the beginning of January, we started a live video chat series called “Facing Stories.” Twice a month we’ll Google Hangout with experts on writing, empathy, community engagement, and more, and we’ll explore techniques, trends, and the overall power of storytelling. We’ll also share the stories and lessons from those who’ve participated in Facing Projects. […]
Facing Stories: Kira Childers Tells Stories with her Camera
We’re embarking on a new adventure–live video chats via Google Hangout. We’re calling the series Facing Stories. We’ll face storytelling as we explore techniques, trends, and the power of storytelling. We’ll also share the stories and lessons from those who’ve participated in Facing Projects. Our first interview, well it didn’t happen. We couldn’t figure out […]
Looking Ahead to 2015
Last week we shared our 2014 Year in Review and payed homage to our hometown guy David Letterman by doing a top 10 list. To stay with that theme, we want to give you a sneak peek of what’s to come in 2015 in another list of 10, but with short one to two word […]
