NSN Member Awards Program
To further its mission of “advancing all forms within the storytelling community through promotion, advocacy and education,” the National Storytelling Network supports a Member Awards Program through which NSN individual members may apply for funding up to $1,00 to develop new projects. Support is available for the development of individual work storytelling projects or for scholarly research.
In extending direct support to members through this program, the NSN Board of Directors has several goals. Though the awards available are not large, we hope they will both enable storytellers to develop new ideas they might not otherwise have time or funds for and increase public outreach and awareness of the power of storytelling and the National Storytelling Network.
The NSN Members Award program funds are generated by our annual Online Auction. We encourage our members to support the Online Auction by donating items that we can offer to the public through the auction. Participation in the Online Auction is encouraged to continue to support the Member Awards.
This program has been dormant for a time and the NSN Board is gathering a Member Awards Committee to define the criteria needed for approval of grants and revising the application form. Watch this site and the monthly e-Newsletter for further development.