In the spring of 2008, Storybuilders ran a digital storytelling workshop for Team Mita, a group of youth sexual health educators affiliated with the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center.

Check out Darisa's story. Like all of the teens at the workshop, Darisa wrote a great story and produced a fun-to-watch video. The story is also a super introduction to the work of Team Mita.

Storybuilders worked with Michael Jacoby Brown, community organizer and author of Building Powerful Community Organizations, to tell the story of Michael's grandmother, Minnie. The events of Minnie's life, her personality, and her beliefs all played an important role in forming Michael's attitudes as a community organizer.

The digital story was a gift from Michael's colleagues at the Jewish Organizing Initiative.

Watch Michael's story...

Storybuilders worked Liana Williams Etheridge, a client of the community-based nonprofit ESAC (Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community), to tell the story of Liana's struggles with subprime mortgage lenders and fight to keep her home.

Liana's story was played at ESAC's annual fundraising event, A Taste of JP, to highlight their Sustainable Homeownership and Foreclosure Prevention program.

In early August, Storybuilders traveled to Washington, DC, to run a two-day digital storytelling "bootcamp" at the Neighborhood Networks conference. In two busy days, ten workshop participants created their own digital stories.

All of the stories were wonderful, and we've highlighted Anna's here, because she did such an AMAZING job of reading her voiceover.

In July and August, Storybuilders ran two digital storytelling workshops for staff at Citizen Schools, a large nonprofit that operates afterschool programs in middle schools in Boston and many other US cities.

In these workshops, campus staff told stories about the connections between their work and personal lives. Citizen Schools hopes to use these stories to show off their staff's brilliance, and to recruit others like them to join the organization.