What does Power look like in your community? What sound does Power make? How have you and your community experienced power or a lack of power?
Share your photos, videos and audio to help shape how Power is understood in your community. The Stories in Power Project is a research study to help The Health Forward Foundation understand power in our communities.
Project Overview: The Health Forward Foundation is partnering with Ad Astra Community Innovations Group to examine how communities have experienced power – or the lack of power – in decisions that affect their lives.
How to Participate: Upload 10 photos, videos and/or audio clips that express or represent power in your community.
Within this portal you will find 7 demographic questions followed by a photographic prompt and a request for a summarizing caption. You may use any photo, video or audio you choose, taken for this study or earlier.
Compensation: Upon uploading 10 articles of content, you will receive a $25 gift card.
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Next, you will be using the Upload button to share a photograph, video or audio recording following this prompt: Here is the prompt:
When was the last time you felt powerful in your community?
When was the last time you felt powerless in your community?
After uploading, please take a moment to write a caption.
Consider the following questions and use some of the answers in your caption. This will increase the impact of the image, video or sound.
The right answer to any question is your answer. You are the expert here.
S. What do you See that represents power in your life experience or in your community?
H. What is Happening in the image (or sound)? Briefly describe.
O. How does that relate to (y)Our life as a person or community?
W. What is it that contributes or creates this instance of power?
E. What did you Experience (feelings, thoughts, sensations) when you took the photo?
D. What can we (individually, collectively) Do about it?
The following information will only be used to verify and compensate you. It will not be made public.
I do hereby consent to the use by Ad Astra Community Innovations and the Health Forward Foundation (hereafter Ad Astra and HFF) of my image, video, voice, or all three of them, in the item described above. I have been compensated for my participation and agree there is no further compensation for use of these images or recordings.
Thank you for your contribution!
If you haven’t already, please take the survey portion of this research project: