Mimi Pickering | PlaceStories

Mimi Pickering

storytelling since 8 Sep 2008

Biography

13 Communities

36 Projects

98 Stories

*Award-winning documentary filmmaker *Director Appalshop Community Media Initiative (CMI) *Director of Making Connections - multimedia on Appalachian sustainable future *Coordinator of U.S. PlaceStories Programs

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Climate Change Community Health Politics Society Environment mid career community investment economic development social media arts and culture broadband climate change community media

Arts and Environment

The Arts and Environment community is a platform to document the global movement of art responding to the natural environment. Throughout history...

Center for Health Equity

The Center for Health Equity provides a new and hopeful approach to the public's health. The Center works to eliminate social and economic barriers...

Digital Landcare

Around the world thousands of Landcarers are contributing their time and resources to making the world a more sustainable place. Digital Landcare...

Main Street Project

Main Street Project is a grassroots cultural organizing, media justice and economic development initiative working to help rural and urban...

Making Connections

Making Connections is a community for sharing news, stories and information highlighting opportunities and challenges for building a healthy future...

Mountain Reporter Network

The Mountain Reporter Network is a digital storytelling and community journalism project taking place in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky,...

Pollinate

Pollinate is an online community working to grow the arts sector - from the ground up! Pollinate is a platform for artists working with...

RAFI-USA Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund

The Tobacco Communitities Reinvestment Fund provides grants to help North Carolina farmers implement new ideas for earning a living in agriculture.

Rural America

Rural America supports storytelling and collaboration for people and organizations devoted to building a stronger, more vibrant rural America....

Rural Arts and Culture

This Rural Arts and Culture Map presents new perspectives from rural America, with a focus on rural youth, rural-urban exchange, and a sustaining...

Rural Strategies

The Center for Rural Strategies is the host and coordinator for testing and development of the PlaceStories system in the US. The Rural Strategies...

unEarthed

By sharing our history and telling our stories, we build our futures, in communities everywhere

Yonder TV

Americans need to invest in what rural communities are becoming, rather than write off rural America off for what it has been. The emerging voices...

Start a Project

Making Connections: Diversifying Our Future

Making Connections is a series of stories from WMMT-FM, Appalshop's Community Media Initiative, and regional producers that explore different ways...

Grow Appalachia

Grow Appalachia is dedicated to helping mountain families plant a healthy future for themselves and their communities by: providing skills and...

Casa Wesley

Aqui Es Donde Nos Encontramos Training Workshop

This is a project for the Center for Health Equity PlaceStories workshop, in Louisville Kentucky.

HWF: Social Change Grantees

In 2008-2009 the Headwaters Foundation for Justice awarded $215,000 to 24 Minnesota-based not-for-profit organizations. In keeping with...

Beginnings

Representatives of various Minnesota organizations participated in a PlaceStories training organized by the Main Street Project as part of their...

Appalachia's Bright Future

On April 19-21 folks from throughout east Kentucky and beyond will gather in Harlan, KY for Appalachia's Bright Future, an opportunity to learn how...

Bardstown Stories

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Everyone Speak Out

The East KY Reproductive Health Project invites one and all from Kentucky and around the world to share stories about the many topics surrounding...

Our Bodies, Ourselves: East KY Women Speak Out

Our Bodies,Ourselves: East KY Women Speak Out is a storytelling forum of the East KY Reproductive Health Project. EKRHP is led by young women from...

YouthBuild Breathitt:Our Stories

During November 2010, Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute partnered with YouthBuild Hazard in Jackson, KY to conduct an innovation lab funded...

Teaching American History

As part of the Democratic Visions program, Berea College Appalachian Center is hosting a summer workshop to explore digital storytelling and new...

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Berea College Trip to Egypt

Berea College -- McDowell Co Project

Appalachian Studies Students Work With Coretta Community

MRN West Virginia Project

These are the stories of West Virginians who are living with the true costs of coal and fighting for community survival. By sharing our...

MRN Kentucky Project

These are the stories of Kentuckians who are living with the true costs of coal and fighting for community survival. By sharing our experiences...

37th Annual Inter-Mountain -- Rainbow Decadence

Welcome to the 37th Annual Inter-Mountain All Star, No Star Spirtual Convention, Chicken Pluck & Round Robin Memorial Softball Tournament held at...

Farmland Monitor

HELP STOP LAND GRABS! Create a Digital Postcard Add a PDF You can also alert us to land grabbing activity through one of the following...

Stopping Predatory Lending

With the support of the Kellogg Foundation, the Southwest Rural Policy Network has been part of a coalition effort led by the Southwest Center for...

National Cultural Policy Forum

On 13th March 2013 Arts Minister Simon Crean launched Creative Australia - the much anticipated new National Cultural Policy. The launch came 18...

Regional Arts Broadband Forum

GO TO THE WEBCAST PAGE NOW! This Project is about getting the arts and cultural sector on the agenda of the NBN Project. It follows on from the...

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Innovative Farming Enterprises

In the changing agricultural economy, small and mid-scale family farmers face considerable obstacles in their quest to remain profitable. The...

WNC Agricultural Options

Our Mission: The Western North Carolina Agricultural Options Program builds sustainable farming communities in our mountain region by providing...

Rural Arts and Culture Working Group

The Rural Arts and Culture Working Group of the National Rural Assembly is building a movement. Across disciplines and geographies, we are creating...

Post Office Stories

What does your local post office mean to you and your community? What's its history? How does it serve the community today? The US Postal Service...

Rural Reports on Policy & Programs

Organization and network members of the Rural Policy Network report on a variety of programs and policy activities from throughout rural America.

Central Appalachia Regional Network

Central Appalacha Regional Network - About Our Network and Policy Work

Rural Policy - A PlaceStories Workshop

A group of people from rural policy networks attended a workshop in northern Virginia to hone their digital storytelling skills using PlaceStories....

Rural YouthBuild / Department of Education Meeting

Rural Broadband Tales

Welcome to Rural Broadband Tales -- a collection of stories from rural people about their experiences getting access to and using high-speed...

2013 Gathering

The 2013 National Rural Assembly will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, June 23-26. We anticipate up to 200 participants this year, representing...

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National Rural Youth Assembly

The National Rural Youth Assembly is a diverse group of organizations and individuals, youth and adults, working to positively shape policies that...

WEST 100 to 115

The 100 to 115 Rural Arts and Culture Map has been developed by M12 Creative Director Richard Saxton to highlight the rich offerings of the High...

The Art of the Rural

The Rural Arts and Culture Map is a project coordinated by Art of the Rural, in collaboration with Appalshop, Feral Arts, and the M12 Art...

Gulf Coast

A collection of stories about the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the Gulf of Mexico, United States.

Africa Link: A Global Education Partnership

This pilot project links Mnarani Primary School near the Indian Ocean in Kenya with US schools. Africa Link is an effort to create direct...