Information on Americans All for Organization Members
What We Deliver: Inexpensive, socially relevant membership benefits
- Use legacy stories to highlight the contributions and common experiences of all peoples
- Uphold our nation’s values of diversity, tolerance and acceptance by investing more than half of our membership revenue to provide inclusive social studies resources that help students participate in our democracy, economy and workforce
- Support David McCullough’s belief that “history is the story of people,” because it reinforces the connection between legacy preservation and social studies instruction
Who We Are: A 31-year-old nonprofit managed by a 3-year-old for-profit benefit corporation with three membership-based entities: Americans All, Social Legacy Network and Legacy Partner Alliance
The Problems:
- If an individual fails to record and share his or her life story, it will be lost forever
- Legacy stories celebrate experiences, accomplishments and lessons learned
- They acknowledge that heritage and culture are rich aspects of personal and group identity
- They pass on wisdom to guide future generations
- They are likely to be a costly and short-lived obituary if created after the honoree’s passing
- The emphasis on STEM topics has reduced social studies classroom instruction time
- Whether instruction is secular or faith-based, students need nonpartisan instructional resources that are accurate and free from biases to develop critical thinking skills
- Vetted resources that meet state testing requirements exist, but they cannot be easily accessed by teachers and students
Our Solutions:
- A multimedia way to create, edit, share and preserve legacy stories with honoree input
- Access to K–12 inclusive social studies resources App—a $500 value—and professional development opportunities for teachers
Membership Cost and Value:
- Basic: A one-time, tax-deductible $49* registration fee (or a Gift Coupon code from a Legacy Partner) enables Americans All members to:
- Create and publish a legacy story on our Web-based Heritage Honor Roll that can:
- Be housed forever on our Web site and on the home pages of our Legacy Partners
- Contain up to 2,000 words, of which 1,000 can be password protected for privacy
- Be published in multiple languages
- Include links to other Heritage Honor Roll legacy stories
- Be enhanced with photos, home movies and other media.
- Be linked to social media sites and other Web pages
- Be created and enjoyed by an honoree prior to his or her passing away
- Replace or reduce the use of a newspaper obituary
- Take advantage of our secure event, anniversary and memorial information e-mail tool
- Be shortened to print on an 8½” x 11” template to share with family and friends
- Create and publish a legacy story on our Web-based Heritage Honor Roll that can:
- Upgrade: Because education is a lifelong process, we offer membership in our Social Legacy Network for just $4 per month (after a free one-year trial period) to:
- Access our resource databases and new ethnic and cultural texts, photos and songs
- Use our teaching tools and homework help for K–12 students
- Be automatically enrolled in CollegeSave to earn up to $53,000 in college tuition discounts
- Gain available discounts from our partners and e-newsletters with money-saving tips
* By comparison, a one-day, one-city newspaper death notice containing 1,000 words and a color photograph would be $2,440!
Click here to register for Americans All to create and share a legacy story and access other benefits.