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The Vonage Foundation Expands Partnership With StoryCorps, Powering Connections for More Than 36,000 Individuals

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
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HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, continues to expand its partnership with StoryCorps, the national non-profit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of people of all backgrounds and beliefs. Since launching StoryCorps Connect in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an initiative to engage Americans in StoryCorps interviews conducted and recorded remotely, The Vonage Foundation has provided in-kind support to help the organization to connect more than 36,000 people across all 50 states, counteracting the isolating effects of social distancing.

Key Points: 
  • Since joining forces with Vonage, we have leveraged technology to make a lasting impact on more than 36,000 lives.
  • Since joining forces with the Vonage Foundation back in 2020, we have leveraged technology and the virtual connections it enables to make a lasting and meaningful impact on more than 36,000 individuals' lives."
  • The Vonage Foundation supports initiatives like StoryCorps Connect that are dedicated to bringing technology access to communities through partnerships, charitable contributions and donations of services for nonprofits.
  • Bakari Foundation - making it possible for grieving families from Austin and San Antonio to honor lost loved ones with memories recorded comfortably from their own homes.

Rivian Hires Sarah O’Brien as Chief Communications Officer

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Friday, June 30, 2023
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Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) today announced it has hired Sarah O’Brien as its Chief Communications Officer.

Key Points: 
  • Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) today announced it has hired Sarah O’Brien as its Chief Communications Officer.
  • O’Brien is joining Rivian from Meta, where she spent more than four years as Vice President of Executive and Product Communications.
  • O’Brien starts at Rivian today and will report directly to Rivian Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe.
  • At Rivian, O’Brien will oversee the company’s communications function, which includes product, consumer, internal and corporate communications.

Library of Congress Veterans History Project Unveils New Website: Interviews with Director Available

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Monday, November 14, 2022
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FREDERICK, Md., Nov. 14, 2022  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) is set to unveil its newly updated website on Veterans Day, complete with an updated collections search feature and customized step-by-step participation instructions, so that veterans, volunteer interviewers, Gold Star Families and others have a more user friendly experience when visiting the site. VHP seeks to inform the public about these innovative features, as well as invite listeners to rely on this national repository as a research source.

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  • "We don't just collect these materials to sit in the Library's stacks," says Monica Mohindra, Director of the Veterans History Project.
  • The Veterans History Project was created in 2000 by Congress as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
  • VHP relies on volunteers to interview veterans to contribute to the permanent library collection by submitting audio and video interviews, as well as original photographs and correspondence.
  • To learn more about the project and download a how-to field kit visit http://www.loc.gov/vets

Medicine meets microphones - Lessons in listening from StoryCorps and Providence Institute for Human Caring

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Thursday, August 4, 2022
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SEATTLE and NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Providence Institute for Human Caring in collaboration with StoryCorps invites you to a free one-hour presentation on the healing benefits of storytelling and listening.

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  • SEATTLE and NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Providence Institute for Human Caring in collaboration with StoryCorps invites you to a free one-hour presentation on the healing benefits of storytelling and listening.
  • For patients, storytelling and listening can help relieve stress, build resiliency, and offer a source of empowerment.
  • For health care professionals, storytelling and listening can enhance empathy, improve cultural literacy, and can ease moral duress.
  • The Institute for Human Caring is an innovation and culture-change agent of Providence, dedicated to making caring for whole persons the new normal.

Deaf cancer patient stars in 500th Hear Me Now recording

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Thursday, June 30, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Christine Kostrubala, who is deaf and survived breast cancer, recently participated in the 500th recording for Hear Me Now™, a storytelling and listening program at Providence.

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  • In this milestone audio/visual recording, Kostrubala of Bremerton, Wash., shares challenges she's faced with healthcare outside of Providence, including a doctor who assumed she was intellectually disabled because she's deaf.
  • When it comes to accommodating deaf people, "the whole profession has a long way to go," Kostrubala said, through interpreter Sarah Rasmussen.
  • Kostrubala noted that inviting patients and providers to share their stories through Hear Me Now offers an innovative way to improve understanding and quality of care.
  • Hear Me Now offers a safe place to record stories, and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion to promote trust, understanding and healing.

Memorial Day Interview with Director of Library of Congress' Veterans History Project Available

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Thursday, May 19, 2022
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FREDERICK, Md., May 19, 2022  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) is seeking to highlight veterans of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and veterans who were deployed for natural disasters or public health crises, as well as inform the public about how they can access and be a part of their veteran collection this Memorial Day season.

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  • The Veterans History Project collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand remembrances of U.S. military veterans.
  • The Veterans History Project is actively seeking the stories of Uniformed Public Health Officer veterans and military veterans who were deployed for crises response, either domestically or abroad.
  • To view the PSA for the Veterans History Project, please click here (Spanish version here).
  • Veterans History Project was created in 2000 by Congress as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

connectRN and StoryCorps Collaborate to Tell the Stories of Nurses Two Years into the Pandemic

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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CHICAGO, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- connectRN, the leading platform connecting nurses to opportunities and each other, to build a supportive and thriving network, is pleased to announce a collaboration with StoryCorps, the non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. In Chicago on April 15th and 16th, nurses and their families are invited to participate in recording sessions that, with permission, will be preserved in StoryCorps' archive at the Library of Congress, the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.

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  • "We are honored to work with StoryCorps to amplify the voices of nurses who are the backbone of the healthcare system," said Ted Jeanloz, CEO of connectRN.
  • Every day, the connectRN platform helps thousands of nurses and aides find opportunities and share their stories with one another.
  • With connectRN, nurses are able to choose locations and shifts that work for them and their families.
  • "StoryCorps is excited to work with connectRN to honor the experiences of nurses during this unprecedented moment in history," said Alissa Pelc, Managing Director, Corporate Partnerships at StoryCorps.

UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE JOY HARJO NAMED FIRST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT TULSA'S BOB DYLAN CENTER® IN ADVANCE OF GRAND OPENING ON MAY 10

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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TULSA, Okla., Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has been named the first Artist-In-Residence at the Bob Dylan Center (BDC), in advance of its much-anticipated grand opening on May 10.

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  • TULSA, Okla., Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has been named the first Artist-In-Residence at the Bob Dylan Center (BDC), in advance of its much-anticipated grand opening on May 10.
  • "As a poet, musician, playwright and author, Joy Harjo exemplifies artistry and brings light to the world through her work," Higgins said.
  • Images of Joy Harjo can be downloaded here:
    Appointed in 2020 to a rare third term as 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation.
  • Part of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the American Song Archives operates the Woody Guthrie Center and the future Bob Dylan Center, and preserves and maintains the archives of these and other important American artists.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals and StoryCorps Collaborate to Launch Yours, Truly – a Multicultural Storytelling Campaign to Bring Greater Awareness to Parkinson’s Disease Non-Motor Symptoms

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAD) today announced the national launch of Yours, Truly, a multicultural, storytelling campaign to bring greater awareness and understanding of the varied experiences of the non-motor symptoms associated with Parkinsons disease.

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  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAD) today announced the national launch of Yours, Truly, a multicultural, storytelling campaign to bring greater awareness and understanding of the varied experiences of the non-motor symptoms associated with Parkinsons disease.
  • Those interested in learning more about Parkinsons disease and its non-motor symptoms, and in sharing their experiences, are encouraged to visit YoursTrulyPDP.com .
  • The nondeclaration of nonmotor symptoms of Parkinsons disease to health care professionals: an international study using the nonmotor symptoms questionnaire.
  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia: frequency, profile and associated care giver stress.

The Ad Council's Love Has No Labels and StoryCorps' One Small Step Bring Americans Together One Conversation at a Time

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
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All conversations are preserved (with participant permissions) in the StoryCorps archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Key Points: 
  • All conversations are preserved (with participant permissions) in the StoryCorps archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
  • The organization began piloting One Small Step in response to a growing climate of contempt and feelings of division.
  • Visitors to the website can also sign up to participate in a One Small Step conversation.
  • In 2017, Love Has No Labels put a twist on the kiss cam by turning it into a symbol for unbiased love with "Fans of Love."