“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” -Robert McAfee Brown
With the holidays just around the corner, media are searching their communities for the best nonprofit story to tell. Are you ready to tell a compelling story if they call your office tomorrow?
Here are some quick story telling tips [...]
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Our work to define the sector’s role in society will never be more important. Every day we witness the work of the nonprofit sector being defined and redefined by circumstances seemingly beyond our control. For example, the health care reform debate is the nation’s single most contentious issue—even greater than our two foreign [...]
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“You should feel lucky to have a job in this current economy.” We hear this more and more recently as the unemployment rate jumps up to 14%. Yet we sometimes forget the nonprofit sector has, like many other industries, experienced significant turn over. Whether hiring for existing positions or creating new employment opportunities, [...]
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Earlier this week I participated in a video training to learn the techniques of messaging with video, video production and storytelling in a visual medium. Leading this training was Jen Caltrider, executive producer at ProgressNow and former CNN producer.
Lesson 1:
We learned that producing a video for a campaign or your organization is [...]
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