Your Voice Matters

When you share your journey, you open doors for others. Share your story and help create new pathways to opportunity.

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Why Your Story Matters

Across the country, families are working hard to build stability and create brighter futures for themselves and their children, but too often, systemic barriers make that path more difficult.

By sharing your experiences, you help us capture the realities surrounding access to quality housing, support for small businesses, family assistance programs, and tax-related opportunities. Every story contributes to a clearer picture of the economic landscape that shapes our daily lives.

Share Your Story

We invite you to share your personal experience about how economic opportunities or challenges have influenced your life or the lives of those around you.

Your unique perspective is valuable in helping us understand and celebrate the many experiences within our community. 

Please note that submitting your story does not guarantee publication. All submissions will be reviewed before selection.

Tips for a Quality Video:

  • Ensure your video is well-lit and that the background noise is kept to a minimum.
  • Avoid backlighting (for example, sitting with your back to a window or other light source).
  • Record vertically using your phone and set it on a stable surface to avoid camera movement.

File Requirements:

  • Upload your video in either .MP4 or .MOV format.

Additional Request:

  • Include a smiling photo of yourself to be used as the video thumbnail.

Length:    Up to 500 words

Focus:      Highlight the influence of economic opportunities on your life or in your community.

Guiding  Questions: Highlight the influence of economic opportunities on your life or in your community.

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How It Works

Share Your Story is a storytelling initiative from Prosperity Now that elevates lived experiences related to help inform policies and solutions to expand economic opportunity.

Your story – whether it’s about finding a safe home, growing a small business, receiving valuable family support, or navigating tax benefits – will bring real experiences into conversations to help guide our collective understanding.

By sharing your story, you are adding an important perspective that enriches our community’s narrative about building economic security.

Submit Your Story

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