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Why Your Support Matters

Documentary songwriting strengthens communities by creating space for people to share their stories and transform them into songs. Your support trains teaching artists, funds fellowships, and helps create documentary songs that heal, build connection, and amplify voices often left out of our cultural conversation.

Every gift—whether you donate, sponsor a song, or volunteer your time—helps musicians use their artistry to make meaningful change in their communities.

Ways to Support

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Donate

Support Our Mission
Your financial support trains teaching artists, funds programs, and helps documentary songwriting reach more communities. Every donation—from monthly gifts to major contributions—strengthens our work and creates lasting impact.
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Support a Fellow

Help fund community-led impact

Documentary songwriting creates lasting change when it's led by musicians already embedded in their communities—artists who bring established relationships, cultural knowledge, and deep trust that outside practitioners can't replicate.

Fellowships cost $10,000 and provide intensive training, mentorship, and project support for a local teaching artist to facilitate documentary songwriting in their own community. Your gift—whether you fund a full fellowship or contribute what you can—helps make these transformative opportunities possible.

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Sponsor a Song

Bring a documentary song to life

When you sponsor a song, you fund the teaching artist facilitating the session, the time to shape a story into music, and the recording that preserves it. Documentary songs get shared with audiences, used by storytellers in their own advocacy work, and become lasting records of the full spectrum of human story.

Song sponsorships are $500 and cover all costs from facilitation to final recording.

Sponsor a Song
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Attend an Event

Experience documentary songwriting live
Attending a documentary songwriting performance or showcase helps you experience the power of this work firsthand. Your presence supports teaching artists, honors storytellers, and helps build audiences for community-created music.
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Join Our Board

Help guide our work
We're seeking board members who are passionate about documentary songwriting and community-engaged arts. Our volunteer board provides strategic guidance, supports fundraising, and ensures organizational health. Bring your expertise, networks, and commitment to our mission.
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Volunteer

Share your time, skills, or story
We welcome volunteers in many ways: skilled professionals who support our communications, grant research, or event coordination; and storytellers who share personal experiences during teaching artist training sessions. If you're passionate about documentary songwriting and want to contribute, we'd love to hear from you.
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