Our Donors Make the Difference

Thank you for considering ISC for your charitable donation. All gifts are tax deductible because ISC is a 501c(3) tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.

The growth and success of our Festival is due in large part to the help of people like you who love and support live storytelling. As a Friend of the Festival, your investment will help stage this year’s event and ensure the continuance of this educational, artistic, and economic driver for our region.

By becoming a Friend of Storytelling Live! you’ll help ISC continue to strengthen our educational programming and artistic contribution to the vital cultural scene here in East Tennessee.

StoryVault, ISC’s official podcast, features some of our most treasured archival footage from the history of the National Storytelling Festival. It’s one of the largest and most important collections of oral recordings in the world–and we want to make sure that everyone has access to it. Help spread story through a tax-deductible donation today.

Stories for Change is a series of initiatives to empower youth within Appalachia to harness the power of story to be the change they wish to see in the world. Through exposure to world-class storytelling training and performance, they learn skills that can transform their own lives, help them envision a better place for themselves, and be the story for change in a world where their stories matter.

ISC is celebrating the life of Merle Davis, beloved arts administrator and devoted audience member of the National Storytelling Festival. Named for the late wife of storyteller Donald Davis, the Merle Davis Story Listener Fund honors the life of a story connoisseur who understood how important it is to be a good listener. 

Would you like to buy a brick and join our story?

Your inscribed brick will be located in the Storytelling Plaza at the International Storytelling Center – a special place to honor friends and showcase supporters of storytelling right here in Jonesborough.