Self-funded documentary work
The project is designed and maintained independently, so support goes directly into building the archive rather than sustaining a large institution.
Support the archive
Help keep a public documentary archive alive.
Memory Map Project is a self-funded nonprofit-style documentary project run by an independent documentarian. Support helps keep participation free and the archive carefully built.
Where support goes
The public sees a small marker and a simple question. The work behind it is fieldwork, care, moderation, preservation, and return visits.
Every contribution helps pay for weatherproof markers, QR materials, replacement stickers, database and media storage, photography, participant follow-up, field recordings, transcription, backups, design, printing tests, and future exhibitions or community presentations.
$25–50Weatherproof markers, replacement materials, field tests
$100–250Portrait sessions, field audio, transcription, archive editing
$500+Chapter expansion, public programming, exhibition and publication tests
No app, fee, or account
Participants should not have to download an app, create an account, or pay to leave a memory tied to a place.
Preservation matters
Submissions are reviewed, organized, backed up, and connected to photographs, portraits, audio, and future chapter research.
Institutional support
Places need partners.
Libraries, museums, schools, neighborhood groups, conservation organizations, local businesses, and individual donors can help identify meaningful sites, host conversations, sponsor a chapter, support public programming, or bring the project to a new community.
For sponsors and institutions
Memory Map Project can grow as a public-history program, museum or library partnership, artist residency, educational project, community archive, or exhibition framework.
The strongest collaborations preserve the core principle: a very simple public invitation supported by serious documentary care.
Discuss sponsorshipFor individual supporters
You can help by funding markers, sharing a location, introducing a community partner, supporting participant portraits, or simply helping the project reach people who care about memory, place, and public documentary work.
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