Bring The Facing Project to your community.
We’re pumped that you’re pumped to do a Facing Project.
The Facing Project works with campuses and communities to organize and share the stories of citizens through the talent of local writers and actors. Writers are matched with community members facing the selected topic (depression, hunger, homelessness, disabilities, etc), meet with them face-to-face, and capture their stories in the first-person. The stories are compiled into a book and brought to life on stage through a community theatre event.
(Other ways to get involved: volunteer, donate or join the Build Empathy Story by Story campaign)
Tell us about your community
Let’s start the process. Tell us about your community and the topic you’d like to face. We’ll review your information and setup a time to discuss how a Facing Project can make the biggest impact in your community.
Partner Level
At the Partner-level The Facing Project will be able to provide the following supports for your project
Community building
● The Facing Project will serve on the steering committee (in an advisory capacity only) on 6 to 10 steering committee meetings with key contacts and project partners (nonprofits, colleges, universities, etc). A member of The Facing Project will answer questions and offer guidance during meetings, but will not commit to any action items resulting from the meeting.
● Discuss storyteller recruitment, event, and marketing/PR
● Lead a virtual or in-person writers training
Website
● Build site to house project stories
● Build online volunteer form for writers and storytellers to join the project (all matching and communications to be done by community)
● Create initial site content
● Post all stories
Toolkit
● Provide community with a toolkit of how to run a project from start to finish
● 45-minute toolkit training
Editing
● Editing stories
● Share stories with Peace Museum and other partners
● Copyediting
● Proof approvals
Book content creation / layout
● Edit entire book including foreword from notable organization or individual
● Table of Contents
● Sponsor page
● Working with designer on layout and production
● Publish book through Ingram, so book stores can buy
● Publish book through Amazon, so books are available on Amazon.com and via
Kindle
● Up to 200 books will available at-cost to The Dayton Peace Museum
● $2/book sold at the retail price during the six months following publication will go back to your community to offset project costs and/or fund next step actions
Marketing / PR
● Feature a story on The Facing Project’s NPR show (currently in 22 counties in Indiana)
Event Planning
● Create ticketing page Event
● Speak at the event, explaining The Facing Project
Fundraising
● The Facing Project will work with project partners to create a campaign to raise resources to fund some type of community action putting the stories to use (event, art installation, touring presentation, etc.)
Sponsor Level
At the Sponsor level, The Facing Project will provide these additional supports for your project:
Community Building
● Serve as an active member of the steering committee (more than just as an advisory
capacity)
Recruiting writers
● Communication with writers
● Meet with and train writers
● Write recruitment email for partners to send
● Communication with interested storytellers
Pairing writers and storytellers
● Match writers and storytellers
● Correspondence with writers and storytellers
Book content creation / layout
● Assist a notable individual or organization with writing a foreword for the site/book
● Includes 200 complimentary books to your community
Supplementary Artwork ( may be included)
● Recruit / organize photographers / artists
● Organize project photo shoot
● Collect photos for book from storytellers and partners
Marketing / PR
● Work with local media for interviews and in-kind ads
● Write and release press releases
Event Planning
● Meet and work with venue
● Recruit and organize monologue readers
● Write program and work with designer on event programs
Event
● Attend rehearsal
● Setup / breakdown
Community Action Discussion
● Facing Project, co-founder J.R. Jamison, the State Director of Indiana Campus Compact and a community organizing expert, will lead a “What’s next?” session open to project partners to discuss how to transfer the project’s momentum, connections, and lessons into community action
