This week on our show, four stories of giving. First, it’s a story about a charity fundraiser, and the woman who comes to question why fundraisers even exist. Then it’s the story of a t-shirt entrepreneur’s attempt to send one million shirts to Africa. Third, it’s two interviews with people who had to decide if they were willing to donate bone marrow. Last, the story of Odyssey Works, a group of artists that create works of art for a single person.
Producer: Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Rachel Hamburg, Will Rogers, Jason Sadler, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, TMS Ruge, Nick Hartley, Mandeep Gill, Kristina Kulin, Abraham Burickson, and Jen Harmon
Release Date: 18 April 2012
Story 1: Me and the 49ers Cheerleaders
State of the Human producer Rachel Hamburg had the chance to cater a charity fundraiser. She got to see what enticements were used to get people to give. She started to wonder, what was the point of it all?
Featuring: Rachel Hamburg
Story 2: How Not To Give
It was an epic project: send one million shirts to Africa. But before it even got off the ground, it hit a snag. Is sending a million used shirts across the Atlantic ocean even a good idea?
Producer: Will Rogers and Charlie Mintz
Featuring: Jason Sadler, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, TMS Ruge
Links: Good Intents; Project Diaspora; I Wear Your Shirt
Story 3: A Tale of Two Donors
No one said donating bone marrow was a trip to the water park. But if it’s a choice between avoiding pain, and saving a life, how do you decide what to do?
Featuring: Nick Hartley, Mandeep Gill
Links: Stanford BLood Center
Story 4: Odyssey Works
What would it be like to have a play made just for you? One that incorporated your dreams, and your wishes, and brought you into its world to participate?
Featuring: Kristina Kulin, Abraham Burickson, and Jen Harmon
Links: Odyssey Works