When you sponsor a Door-to-Door session, we’ll come to you! Groups, organizations, companies, institutions, and families can sponsor on-site recording for one or more days. For a fee, StoryCorps staff will bring their portable equipment to your location and each team of Facilitators can record up to six 40-minute interviews per day.

StoryCorps sessions are a great way to capture your organizational or community history. By collaborating with StoryCorps, you can offer people an authentic and sometimes transformative experience with each other and with your organization.

Members of your group will emerge feeling closer, and understand each other better. StoryCorps helps us celebrate our shared humanity and collective identity, by capturing and defining the stories that bond us.

StoryCorps provides:

• Two highly trained StoryCorps Facilitators with professional audio and photographic equipment.
• Six 40-minute interviews per recording day.
• One copy of each interview for the participants, with an additional copy to be archived at a local repository.
• Archiving of the interviews in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
• Assistance in developing a menu of questions, tailored to your group’s needs and interests, for participants to use in interviews.
• The legal rights of usage for the interviews recorded.

Door-to-Door partner provides:

• A quiet, peaceful space to record.
• Participants (up to six pairs or individuals a day).
• A coordinator who will work with StoryCorps to plan the Door-to-Door event.

Door-to-Door Fees

The cost for the Door-to-Door service is a flat fee, which covers the costs associated with administering the Door-to-Door program, including Facilitator pay, travel, lodging, purchasing and maintaining our high-quality portable recording equipment, and processing the interview materials so that they can be admitted to the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is committed to making our services accessible to as many people as possible, and to do so we offer our Door-to-Door service to nonprofit organizations and their constituents at a discounted rate.

Nonprofit rate: $3,000/day for 6 interviews*

Corporate rate: $6,000/day for 6 interviews*

*A reduced rate is available for additional consecutive days in the same recording location. Organizations who qualify may participate in the September 11th Initiative or the Memory Loss Initiative.

How to begin organizing a Door-to-Door event

To ensure the greatest possible success for your organization, please allow at least two months of planning time before your proposed event.

For more information, or to begin scheduling a day of StoryCorps Door-to-Door interviews at your organization, please complete this Door-to-Door inquiry form with the details. We will respond to you as soon as possible, though keep in mind that we receive a very high volume of inquiries. We thank you for your patience.

More options for on-site recordings

Want us to stay for a year? Find out how to build a StoryBooth in your community. For a fee, StoryCorps will construct and staff a recording studio in the location of your choice.

Only need one or two interviews? Check out our StoryKit program. You can rent our recording equipment and we’ll send it to you, with instructions and tips, to record an interview at home.