A Year After Ferguson: Can Stories Save Us?
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. Some days it feels as if the shooting occurred years ago; in another sense, it seems just like yesterday. The...
View ArticleFeatured Story: Building Character
This week’s featured story comes from McPherson, Kansas, where Circles of McPherson County used The Facing Project model to tell the stories of those in their program who have overcome poverty. Once...
View ArticleFeatured Story: Mine
This week’s featured story comes from Muncie, Indiana, where Interlock used The Facing Project model to tell the stories of families and therapists involved with the organization who face autism each...
View ArticleThe Facing Project Expands to K-12 Partners
Over the past two years, The Facing Project model has been used by nonprofits, higher education, and passionate community activists. Until last month, we had yet to see a Facing Project take shape in a...
View ArticleAn ever-expanding circle of compassion
“We imagine . . . this circle of compassion. Then we imagine ourselves close to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We...
View ArticleTour our new HQ on Periscope!
Kelsey leads a tour of our new co-working space and talks a bit about Muncie’s Facing Racism project. Look there’s J.R.! Look there’s our poet friend Michael Brockley! The post Tour our new HQ on...
View ArticleCreating Understanding Across Difference Starts with Owning Our Stories
I stared into a sea of nuns in traditional black-and-white habits. Peppered in between were sweatshirts, backpacks—college-aged Catholic women and men. On the tip of my tongue lay three words that were...
View Article10 Ways to Show Your Gratitude, Beyond Giving Thanks
We’ve all seen the posts on Social Media for 30 Days of Giving Thanks because November is, well, the month of Thanksgiving. While the holiday itself has a checkered past, one positive is the overall...
View ArticleDoes Humans of New York Exploit Humans
Like most humans of the internet we are fans of Humans of New York (HONY). HONY reminds us that everyone has a story as they glide in and out of our own lives as extras, maybe appearing as “couple in...
View ArticleFeatured Story: The Story of a Gardener
This week’s Featured Story comes from Facing Hunger in Manhattan, Kansas, where Leadership Studies students at Kansas State University partnered with The Bread Basket food pantry to capture the stories...
View ArticleGiving Tuesday: Be a part of The Facing Project Story!
After three years as an organization, we’re excited to announce The Facing Project has officially become a nonprofit. This status will allow us to expand our mission of connecting people through...
View ArticleNew Year, New Phase
You may have seen the news last week during Giving Tuesday, but we’re delighted to announce that after three years as an organization The Facing Project has officially become a 501c3 nonprofit. This...
View ArticleThe Facing Project Expands to K-12 Partners
Over the past two years, The Facing Project model has been used by nonprofits, higher education, and passionate community activists. Until last month, we had yet to see a Facing Project take shape in a...
View ArticleAn ever-expanding circle of compassion
“We imagine . . . this circle of compassion. Then we imagine ourselves close to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We...
View ArticleTour our new HQ on Periscope!
Kelsey leads a tour of our new co-working space and talks a bit about Muncie’s Facing Racism project. Look there’s J.R.! Look there’s our poet friend Michael Brockley! The post Tour our new HQ on...
View ArticleCreating Understanding Across Difference Starts with Owning Our Stories
I stared into a sea of nuns in traditional black-and-white habits. Peppered in between were sweatshirts, backpacks—college-aged Catholic women and men. On the tip of my tongue lay three words that were...
View Article10 Ways to Show Your Gratitude, Beyond Giving Thanks
We’ve all seen the posts on Social Media for 30 Days of Giving Thanks because November is, well, the month of Thanksgiving. While the holiday itself has a checkered past, one positive is the overall...
View ArticleDoes Humans of New York Exploit Humans
Like most humans of the internet we are fans of Humans of New York (HONY). HONY reminds us that everyone has a story as they glide in and out of our own lives as extras, maybe appearing as “couple in...
View ArticleFeatured Story: The Man in the Last Pew
—with the same name as mine As told to writer Curtis L. Crisler for Facing Homelessness in Fort Wayne, Indiana It’s a little thing for me to live through these cards. They show the places that make my...
View ArticleMore Than an Oral History: Where We’ve Been and What’s in Store for 2016
When we start to explain what The Facing Project is as an organization, we can’t count the number of times people have said, “Oh, The Facing Project is an oral history!” Or how often folks have asked,...
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