Communications Assets

At Story For All, we know that your story matters – to your team, your partners, your funders, and those you serve. Our goal is to help you tell your story even better so people pay attention, remember you, take action, and remain engaged.

Story For All is a one-stop storytelling shop. We help our partners lift up and preserve their stories, build their communications capacity, and create beautiful, thoughtful materials for their stories, data and wisdom to be shared. For each project, we help our partners define their target audiences and key messages, then curate the content into a range of mediums. Finally, we oversee design and production to ensure the highest quality products. Our publishing arm, Story Bridges Press, also publishes and distributes books to the public.

We are honored to help our partners share their stories in the following formats:

  • Books
  • Data reports
  • Videos
  • Website development, maintenance and analytics
  • Multi-media exhibits
  • Pop-up exhibits
  • Events and livestreams
  • Communications strategy and plans
  • Social media campaigns
  • Training materials
  • Flyers, posters, brochures
  • Oral history transcripts and archives
  • Podcasts

  • La Sangre Es Mas Espesa Que el Agua (Blood is Thicker Than Water)

    This book, written in Spanish, is the creative expression of high school students in a Spanish for Spanish Speakers class in Palo Alto, California. After participating in an oral history project about family history and cultural traditions, students chose a highlight of their interviews to explore more deeply through writing.

  • Oral History Society

    Story For All projects and methodology featured in the Oral History Association’s International Journal

  • Print Products and Brochures

    We design and produce print products and leave-behind documents that convey the stories and information you want your community to remember

  • ROOTS Data Report

    We understand the need to balance narratives, data, recommendations and community input, especially when helping our partners inform and implement policy and systems change. The ROOTS data report helped to shift perspectives and school discipline practices across Mississippi.

  • Data Report for Kaiser Permanente

    After overseeing an intergenerational oral history project for Kaiser Permanente, we summarized the findings and recommendations in a series of print products, including a story-based data report and other take-away documents

  • Videos that center youth voices

    We partnered with Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to produce a series of videos that promote their Summer Jobs Connect summer internships, with a focus on first-person narratives of youth participants across the USA

  • The Griots of Oakland

    This eye-opening and beautifully presented book shares the voices and images of a group of young black men in Oakland, interviewed by their peers in a groundbreaking oral history project. For students, educators, policy makers, and those who want to gain a better understanding of modern African American culture.

  • Youth-led Broadcasts

    We produced a series of live-stream, youth-led conversations between young people and leaders in the political and environmental fields to highlight youth perspectives and build connections between leaders and their younger constituents

  • ROOTS logo

    Our logo design process is informed by the stories, ideas and needs of our partners and those they serve. The ROOTS logo and tagline were imagined by the project participants and brought to life by our design team with their input

  • CALCC logo

    An image can tell a thousand stories – so we work diligently to ensure your logo conveys the stories and feelings that speak to your target audiences

  • CALCC website

    We build websites that combine stories, impact data, and calls to action that appeal to the hearts and minds of our partners’ audiences

  • Griots videos

    For the Griots of Oakland project, we produced a series of videos to change the narrative about young Black men in Oakland by sharing their stories and wisdom, and illuminating how they are impacted by stereotypes, bias, and structural racism. We also showcase the opening event for the Griots of Oakland museum exhibit and book launch.

  • Storytelling Events

    To honor and share the stories we collected in the Land Stories oral history project, we produced a series of events to bring these stories to community members of all ages

  • Civicorps website

    By combining stories, images, data and text curated to their diverse audiences, we build and maintain websites that motivate action

  • Museum exhibits

    We produce museum quality and pop-up multi-media exhibits to showcase stories, voices, people and communities

  • Griots and Roots exhibits

    We produce museum quality and pop-up multi-media exhibits to showcase stories, voices, people and communities

  • True Side of Me

    An inspiring and enlightening collection of stories written by students in a high school credit recovery program. This book is the culmination of the Success Stories Project, in which the class explored definitions, attributes and examples of success and failure.

  • Oral History Manual

    We are proud to be included as an instructive case study in the new edition of the Oral History Manual, the most highly-regarded oral history text

  • Reconnecting Youth Logo

    We design logos, branding kits and communications plans that enliven our partners’ mission, vision and accomplishments

  • ROOTS video

    Our videos are story-based, centering the authentic voices of the communities we serve and are honored to help represent. This video shows the journey of a group of young Black men in Mississippi who set out to learn their history and address the bias and discriminatory school discipline practices that contribute to the school-to-prison-pipeline

  • Griots opening event

    When the stories are collected, the exhibit is complete, and the book is published – it’s time to celebrate and share the good news! We packed the museum for this opening event, which in itself was an opportunity for the Griots to build their confidence, be seen in their brilliance, and convey the message of the Griots project.

  • Published Works

    SFA founder and ED Angela Zusman contributed a chapter about SFA’s story-sharing methodology in Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies, an academic book published by Palgrave Macmillan

  • “My Opportunity” Video Series

    We helped the Reconnecting Youth campaign raise millions of dollars and shift perspectives about Opportunity youth through this series of youth-centric videos