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  • Insider Issue 48 all four pages
  • Home
    • About
    • Get Involved
    • What and How
    • About Interviews
    • About Support Documents
    • Archives
    • FAQs
  • Excerpts
    • Quotes >
      • Awakenings
      • Only Ones/Finding Others
      • Language
      • Closet and Coming Out
      • Military
      • Religion
      • This and That
      • Info and resources
      • Marriage and Kids
      • Seeking Help
      • On Loss
    • Voices
    • Profiles >
      • Annalee Stewart
      • Beverly Hickock
      • Jean Mountaingrove
      • Ocie Perry
      • Ruth Silver
      • Ethyl Bronson
      • Marie Mariano
      • Vera Martin
      • Betty Shoemaker
  • Products
    • Newsletter
    • Our Books
    • DVD Our Stories
    • Order
  • Contact
  • A Three Way Ask
  • What OLOHP Women Are Up To
    • Laura Bock
    • Gaye Adegbalola
    • Kathy Prezbindowski
    • Ann Bannon
    • Tret Fure
    • Ruth Debra
    • Lillian Faderman
    • JS&C&M&M
  • Insider Issue 48 all four pages
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Our three way ask: we need your help in…
        • Raising Funds
        • Creating Finding Aids
        • Creating Abstracts


Update! Excellent News!
Our fundraiser did what we hoped. We didn't quite meet the goal of $20,000 yet, but we're close. A sigh of relief, to be sure! And given a bit more time, we may yet make our full goal. We're still working our way thru creating finding aids – as you might expect, doing that for 600+ stories will take us a while. And we continue to work on creating abstracts as well. If any of this appeals to you, reach out and let us know. We love our volunteers!

Raising Funds

After 19 years and hundreds of interviews, we’ve exhausted all our creative scrounging strategies that have kept us from having to ask for your donations very often! Our goal is to raise $20,000, with all the money to go directly towards transcribing expenses. Transcriptions continues to be our biggest single expense –– we have had some transcriptions done by volunteers, but we have more than they can handle.

MOST EXCELLENT NEWS –– We've had two women step forward and say they EACH would match up to $5000… That means each $100 you donate will magically turn into $300. We'd love to use up both of those matches, and maybe generate another one…

For now, we're opting not to use a crowdfunding campaign via a website such as GoFundMe, or Razoo. They're great, but if we can avoid giving them a slice of the pie, we can use that money to pay for a few more transcriptions.

Here are a few easy, cost effective ways to donate:

Send us a check…
  • A check only adds the cost of a stamp and an envelope to your donation, and doesn't cost us anything.

Use Paypal SEND MONEY…
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  • If you chose to send money but use a credit card, there is a small fee charged to us (approx. 3%)
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Click a Donate Now
  • The Donate Now buttons you find here, and elsewhere on this site, take you to Paypal as well. Once there, you can donate whether you have a Paypal account or not. As with the Paypal Send Money option, if you are using a credit card, there is a small fee to us.

Creating Finding Aids

To make all of the wealth of information contained in the hundreds of interviews we’ve conducted, we’re tackling the job of creating a finding aid for each herstory. Finding aids are created to provide a detailed description of what is in a collection that is being archived. Smith College has one for the OLOHP. We’re taking this process one step further and creating a similar document for each interview we’ve conducted.

This work can all be done via email and/or snail mail… you don't need to live anywhere near us! Transcripts that we are indexing range for 20 to 100+ pages and are the stories of women from all walks of life, with ages ranging from 70 to 90+.

If you think you’d like to be involved in this phase of the Project, please email Margaret: margaret.olohp@gmail.com, and she’ll get you what you’ll need.


Creating Abstracts

If indexing doesn’t appeal to you and you’d rather help in a different way, we’re also working to create an abstract (a short summary) for each woman’s herstory as well. You can find examples of those on our website – look on the page of Profiles.

As with the finding aid, reach out to Margaret (margaret.olohp@gmail.com) if you’d like to have a go at crafting a few abstracts.

This work can all be done via email and/or snail mail… you don't need to live anywhere near us!
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Note sent to the OLOHP: What you have done is so important that I think even you don’t understand it. This will have a life of its own and be around way after we are gone. To have thought this up, seen the need, and assumed the effort to get it done is phenomenal. I really do salute you.
TF says: The women that the OLOHP has brought to us have lived remarkable lives, often solitary and private, and we are far richer for knowing these women, their struggles and their passion.
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