Justice and Human Rights United States Project #59661

Stories Change Power Scholarship Fund

by Stories Change Power

Project Report | Mar 30, 2026
Your Support is Fueling Civic Action When It's Needed Most

By Piper Hendricks | CEO

Friends,

At a time when budgets - personal and professional - are tightening across sectors, your support is truly powerful. You're keeping the door open for people who want to strengthen their communities.

This quarter, your contributions helped expand access to advocacy training for people otherwise couldn't join due to cost. As civic engagement becomes more urgent (and, let's be honest, in many places, more challenging) scholarships aren't just financial aid.

They are an investment in our shared future.

We’re seeing participants deepen their networks - learning with and from each other - and promptly apply what they learn in real time.

Your investment is helping turn intention into impact.

Just as importantly, your support sends a clear message to the people we support: their voices matter, and they are not alone in this work.

Thank you for standing with us, particularly now.

With hope for our shared future,

Piper

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Dec 6, 2025
2026: Learning Communities

By Piper Hendricks | CEO

Aug 13, 2025
BIG & small

By Piper Hendricks | CEO

I hope summer has treated you well! At Stories Change Power, we have exciting updates since April - both big and small.

SMALL(ER)

Recognizing that not everyone can commit to our multi-month online or multi-day in-person Learning Communities, we launched two new short courses: Storytelling 101 and Ethical Storytelling. Both are 4 weeks each, and feedback has been incredibly positive. As we add additional short courses to the roster this fall, Learning Communities will remain a core offering to equip people with our Nine Rights framework. In every Community thus far, at least one person has needed financial support in order to attend. Thank you for making that possible.

BIG

As announced in our most recent newsletter, we launched an Intercultural Learning Lab to help address the polarization and distrust that are testing our 249-year-old democracy. The Lab's first project is The Brazilian Blueprint. In the words of our Lab's Director, Sheila Maloney, we're partnering with Brazilian leaders to "share strategies and exchange wisdom. We know two important truths: now is the time to imagine how the U.S. can rebuild and now is the time to learn to recoginze when there are opportunities for rebuilding."

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WHY NO WEBSITE LINKS?

If you noticed I didn't include links to our website here, I tip my hat to your attention to detail. We are on the brink of launching an updated site that will include more detail about everything I mentioned here. I look forward to referencing the site in our next update.

Until then, be well, do good, and keep in touch. I welcome your questions and feedback anytime.

With gratitude,

Piper

P.S. It's been a joy to host 19 months of webinars to support people across the country in building their civic muscle. We offer these learning opportunities for free to ensure everyone can attend regardless of background or budget. Those hours of preparation add up though, so just last month we launched a new project on GlobalGiving. We're aiming to meet our goal ASAP. We'd be grateful for your help - and hope you can join us this Friday - and for not one but TWO webinars next month.

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