American journalist and academic James Borton wrote to me recently seeking assistance with his quest to expand he Center for Oral Narration at the University of South Carolina, Sumter.

Here’s what he asked me to post:

Academic seeks to review sample proposals for digital-storytelling projects, particularly community-based digital-story proposals that may have already been successfully funded. Looking for models that will help in crafting proposals as part of an expansion of the Center for Oral Narration.

Email him to respond.

Borton also authors a narrative-oriented site, All Heart Matters, the mission of which “is to provide a forum for the more than one million heart patients who experience heart surgery annually. We all know that it is a profound experience and a life-altering event. After all, moral questions do ensue about how to live when mortality is no longer a distant cousin, but a real possibility in one’s life. People do need to tell stories to make sense of their lives and so it is through our narratives that we learn to better understand ourselves.”

Borton says: “I welcome your narratives about all matters of the heart.”