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If you prefer to donate by mail, please send checks to: 45 West 73rd Street, Suite #5, New York, NY 10023

Would you like to dedicate your gift to someone? Email the details to us and we will take care of it!

$25: Underwrite a bundle of writing and art supplies and watch us grow!

$50: Help us introduce music and the visual arts to the story exchange process and curriculum design.

$100: Support the deepening partnerships we have in the field!

$250: Help us connect teens all over the world with new, story-based technology.

Drawings courtesy of Matteo Pericoli — www.matteopericoli.com

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“It was so important to him,” Johnny said afterward. “And now it was kind of my story, too. So it was really important to me to get it right.”

JOHNNY RIVERA, STUDENT, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS

“Gives me — as someone who has had a hard time finding reasons to be optimistic about the future in the Middle East — a glimmer of hope.”

ASSAF GAVRON, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“When you receive a story and recite your own, you feel like you gave part of yourself away, but also got a part of someone else too.”

CARLA DOMINGO, STUDENT, AMERICAN SCHOOL OF TAMPICO

“You have created something truly transformative.”

ANONYMOUS NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

MADELEINE L'ENGLE, AUTHOR

“Storytelling is a mirror into our shared humanity.”

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“The most direct application of imagination for good that I’ve ever seen”

DAVID WROBLEWSKI, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“This method is a stay against abstraction: By using our words, our very breath, to tell each other’s stories, we not only acknowledge but honor our common humanity.”

RON RASH, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“It was a fairly remarkable thing to watch, the care each student took with the story that had been entrusted to her or him.”

JOEL LOVELL, NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST

“The children almost broken by this world become the adults most likely to change it.”

FRANK WARREN, FOUNDER OF POSTSECRET

“The whole idea behind it is that the one true democracy we have is storytelling. It goes across borders, boundaries, genders, rich, poor— everything has a story to tell.”

COLUM MCCANN, N4 PRESIDENT, AUTHOR

“This is a deceptively simple yet extraordinarily powerful tool to build empathy and close bonds between individuals.”

CARO LLEWELLYN, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“Every story has a place, even the stories we don’t like.”

COLUM MCCANN, N4 PRESIDENT, AUTHOR

“Before I did a story exchange I felt like I was in a room full of strangers — some of them acquaintances, a few of them friends. After the exchange I felt as though I truly knew — and deeply loved — everyone in the room.”

REZA ASLAN, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“Truth is not something that is just revealed, it is also created.”

GREG KHALIL, N4 ADVISOR, LAWYER, INNOVATOR

“By listening to each others’ stories…we can break down the walls that separate us into different cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, classes, and nationalities.”

REZA ASLAN, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“Narrative 4 allowed me to understand in a much deeper way the story I had been carrying inside me for twenty-five years. In the listening, I received my own story from the outside-in through the empathetic voice of another. It was no longer my story but a shared story.”

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, N4 ADVISOR, AUTHOR

“One of the most profound experiences of my life.”

ROB SPILLMAN, N4 ADVISOR, EDITOR OF TIN HOUSE MAGAZINE

“I am a transformed human being…these young people have given me hope.”

TERRY COOPER, N4 ADVISOR, SOCIAL WORKER

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”

MARY OLIVER, AUTHOR

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, AUTHOR

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