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RE: Another Five Project Ideas. Which One Should Be Awarded 3,000 STEEM?
I think the community-led oral history project is the most appealing of these strong proposals. It seems like oral history projects have the potential to make a long-lasting impact through collaboration. While a little more development or sharpening on exactly how a collaboration might look, a proposal to collaborate with any of the three mentioned organizations might yield a variety of new ideas.
Oral history seems to be a foundation of the cultural sector and it has enormous potential with the rich diversity of a city like Philadelphia and the growing consumption of audio sources, like podcasts, that work quite well with oral history. Because of this enormous potential, I endorse the idea of an oral history collaboration.
I also think this is an interesting idea, because it works within established organizations, but funds new directions that are really important. If we want to fund established organizations and these cultural initiatives are on board, the oral history project is the way to go!
I too think the oral history proposal would be a great project. As @hourofhistory stated, the oral histories lead to additional opportunities...perhaps a walking tour? I think we would want to grant the organizations and interviewers complete freedom in regards to how the histories are documented, but what if we expressed a desire to feature the final products in a walking tour for schools? Perhaps something like this walking tour that includes oral histories.