“Community learning sessions offered opportunities to exchange knowledge, ideas, and experiences with participants. This knowledge will guide us in developing effective strategies, avoiding common pitfalls, and maximizing impact.”
Mahwah Museum
“We gained information on technical aspects of the work we seek to develop, such as recording equipment, microphones, file types, software and methods to use for recording and maintaining the material in digital form.”
TRUE Mentors, Inc.
“Our organization intends to continue finding ways to teach our youth about community history and devise more projects for our youth to engage with their communities and the history that surrounds them.”
New Jersey Orators, Inc.
“The Stakeholder Mapping process helped us to identify local stakeholders who we had not partnered with before and broaden our communication plan for our community history project.”
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children of Essex County
“The learning sessions greatly enhanced our ability to challenge the hierarchy of who gets to write history.”
Greater Cape May Historical Society
“We are so grateful for the opportunity and the experience to work with a cohort of non-profits with different missions. We learned from them and the importance of learning how to get your organization’s mission into the minds and hearts of their respective communities.”
Trent House Association
Quote in response to a question about why some African Americans are moving from the north to the south:“I think for some people, life is excellent [here], but for other African Americans, they’re still struggling…Where there was supposed to be opportunities up north, but they were fake opportunities. You got true opportunities down south [now].”
Salvation and Social Justice
“Our participation in the Community History learning sessions helped us to restructure our project. We learned that our project can be even more successful if we focus on one church in our denomination.”
Raíces Cultural Center
“Stories are precious, and sharing them allows our ancestors to live on especially if their stories aren’t usually part of the dominant narrative.”
Piscataway Public Library
“We can certainly see how much work went into the making of ’When It Happened.’ The party had good food, friendly people, interesting and informative talks, and a great complimentary book. What’s not to love!”