Continuing a list of collection sites for stories aimed at social change (and related items about storytelling and social change), begun on Oct. 4.

• The man behind a downloadable report, Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children’s Issues, Herschel Sarbin, believes that “if people had more information about the good things being achieved on behalf of children, and more importantly, if those groups doing the work had the resources to tell their stories more effectively and more broadly, more people — individual citizens and policymakers alike — would be more inclined to support solutions for kids that are working,” reports Bruce Trachtenberg in a nice article on the Communications Network Blog summarizing the report.
• The Arizona LGBT Storytelling Project: Community Histories is the first collection of its kind of oral histories and digital documentation of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the state of Arizona. The project’s purpose is to record and commemorate the voices, images, and memories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people living in the state of Arizona. Its is to develop and build on the historical record of the diverse LGBT individuals and communities in Arizona, capture memories of historical moments and movements; reveal struggles, triumphs, healing, and beliefs; as well as share knowledge with future generations.
• GlobalGiving asked people in four communities in Kenya to tell stories about the development issues most important to them. Then, the organization asked experts (both local and foreign) with experience in those communities to predict what they thought the story (out of 12 possibilities) would be about. Only 1 of the 65 experts and implementers correctly predicted the most common theme. “The old style of aid is for experts to study the situation and decide what people need,” writes Global Giving’s Dennis Whittle. “It is tempting to say that we should simply reverse this and let the people decide. Exciting new technologies will enable beneficiaries to have a far greater voice in the coming years, and that is long overdue. But the best system will likely provide a balance of the two.”

• The Our Stories section of the Africare site enables visitors to learn about Africare projects from the individuals who know them the best. The site offers stories on Agriculture and Food Security, Health and HIV/AIDS, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene,, Emergency Humanitarian Assistance, Women’s Empowerment, Civil Society Development and Governance, Micro Enterprise, and Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
• Mapping Memories: Stories of Refugee Youth in Montreal is a collaborative multi-media project which uses personal stories and a range of media tools (video, sound walks, mapping, photography) to share the experiences of youth with refugee experience in Montreal.