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WEBINAR: Strategy, Science, and Storytelling for Good
This webinar offers a sneak peek of the new Storytelling for Good website, where you can learn, explore, and map out your own storytelling strategy. The Communications Network teamed up with Hattaway Communications to update Storytelling for Good, which offers insights, ideas, and tools to help you leverage the power of narrative to increase your reach, resources, and impact.
On this webinar, you'll learn how to:
- Create a Narrative Framework to guide all of your storytelling.
- Craft stories that capture people's imaginations, using the Social Impact Story Map.
- Explore Storytelling for Good's resources for strategy, content, engagement, and evaluation.
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The Communications Network hosts webinars on a wide variety of important topics, which you have continued access to in our archives.
Explore the full list of past and upcoming learning events on our website www.comnetwork.org/events/
The Communications Network connects, gathers, and informs leaders from the most influential foundations, nonprofits, and social sector consultancies across the globe. We are a vibrant, diverse, and dedicated community of over 3,000 communicators, storytellers, strategists, designers, researchers, producers, and community builders
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WEBINAR: How to Use Comedy for Social Change
Переглядів 259Місяць тому
A comedian and an advocate walk into a bar… This could be the start of a great joke OR a new kind of communication strategy to change hearts and minds on pressing issues like reproductive justice, criminal legal reform, or immigration. In our work as communicators, we often lean towards the serious, dramatic, and factual. But humor has the power to connect to people in different ways that aren'...
WEBINAR: LinkedIn for Social Impact Communicators in 2024
Переглядів 637Місяць тому
While the social media landscape is always evolving, LinkedIn continues to be a steady and stalwart platform built on professional connection, conversation, and relationship. In this Network webinar, we will cover: - What is LinkedIn and how does it lend itself to foundation and nonprofit communications? - How has LinkedIn has evolved since 2003? - Best practices to leverage the platform for fo...
WEBINAR: Writing for Busy Readers
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Everyone is busy. That’s why we skim emails, texts, forms, documents, and nearly everything else. Harvard Kennedy School Professor Todd Rogers joins us to share the practical cognitive science of communication, and the six actionable principles it generates. In this Network webinar, we will cover: - Understanding the behavioral science behind brevity - An actionable checklist for being more res...
WEBINAR: AI for Good? A Recipe for Getting Generative AI Right
Переглядів 4314 місяці тому
Join Artificial Intelligence expert Alisa Miller as she leads our next session focused on how foundation and nonprofit communications teams can leverage AI for good. By the time we’re done you’ll have a comprehensive primer and actionable insights to enhance your organization's approach to AI. In this Network webinar, we will cover: - Insights on how to harness Generative AI for more impactful ...
WEBINAR: DEI & Comms for Good - How is the Field Doing? New research from The Communications Network
Переглядів 2944 місяці тому
-Since 2019, The Communications Network has fielded a survey among foundation and nonprofit communications leaders to explore how the shared American values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are being adopted and applied across the social good sector. The insights from our latest 2023 research reveal how DEI is being integrated in comms strategies and operations and how, if at all, these effo...
WEBINAR: How to Improve Audience Engagement with New Data-Driven Approaches
Переглядів 4106 місяців тому
Learn new science-based insights for engaging people in meaningful ways to attract new audiences increase response rates build community. In our first webinar of 2024, we’ll explore how to craft new audience personas for your foundation or nonprofit to tailor messaging, storytelling, and engagement to expand your reach, resources, and impact. In this Network webinar, we will cover: - Creating a...
WEBINAR: Listening as Surrender: Ethical Storytelling and Narrative Change
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For 20 years, StoryCorps has helped people across the country record intimate, one-on-one conversations with neighbors and loved ones, and shared excerpts of those stories each week with millions of listeners on NPR and social media. Audiences tell us that these stories make them feel more connected to others, illuminate their understanding of social issues, and inspire them to take action. Joi...
WEBINAR: Communicating About Structural Racism and Health
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This webinar will unpack new communications research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on how audiences understand structural racism - and its implications for health in America. We’ll explore: - How leading with values can create social cohesion and change hearts and minds - Research findings that show the potential alliance of people who are open to conversations about structural racism...
ComNet23 Jones Award Keynote: Whistleblower Aid
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Whistleblower Aid has been named the sixth winner of the Clarence B. Jones Impact Award, an honor from The Communications Network that recognizes and celebrates the impact of transformative communications campaigns in the social sector. They join Truth Initiative, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, A Step Ahead Chattanooga, United We Dream, and Innocence Project as #JonesAward recipients for...
ComNet23 LaTosha Brown
Переглядів 3029 місяців тому
LaTosha Brown, visionary thought leader, cultural activist and artist, connector and co-founder of Black Voters Matter, will share the value of organizing and communicating through relationships, the power of community building, the impact of deep listening, and strategies for bringing people together to deliver change. Shifting the Narrative Sign Up Form: actionnetwork.org/forms/learn-more-and...
ComNet23 The Story of AI with Aimee Rinehart and Mikhael Simmonds
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Aimee Rinehart of the Associated Press and Mikhael Simmonds, Executive Director at the Center for Community Media at CUNY will lead a discussion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Comms4Good.
ComNet23 The Case for Comms Leadership
Переглядів 2079 місяців тому
Judy Belk and Richard Tate, the former and current CEOs of the California Wellness Foundation, are communicators whose careers have led them to the corner office. Each will make the case for communications as a leadership task and an indispensable tool for transformation. They will offer best practices for how to follow your values, integrate communications inside your organization, and describ...
WEBINAR: Inclusive Images for Social Sector Communications
Переглядів 731Рік тому
Images are incredibly powerful. They play a huge role in shaping how we perceive the world and the people around us. Our next Communications Network webinar will explore how comms professionals can improve the efficacy of their work by sourcing and using inclusive imagery online, in print, and across social media. Through a case study of The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count report, we'll ...
WEBINAR: The Basics of Good Writing
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Charles Babington, a former AP and Washington Post journalist and veteran writing instructor, will outline ways to make your writing clearer, sharper, and more effective. Charles will show how nonprofit and foundation communications professionals can make their writing crisp and engaging to grab the busy reader’s attention and advance their organization’s cause. We’ll Explore: - How to cut unne...
WEBINAR: Communicating Climate Change Part 2
Переглядів 321Рік тому
WEBINAR: Communicating Climate Change Part 2
WEBINAR: How to Communicate a Commitment to Disability Inclusion
Переглядів 352Рік тому
WEBINAR: How to Communicate a Commitment to Disability Inclusion
WEBINAR: How the web development landscape has changed
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WEBINAR: How the web development landscape has changed
WEBINAR: Communicating Climate Change (Part 1 of 2)
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WEBINAR: Communicating Climate Change (Part 1 of 2)
WEBINAR: Measuring Communications Success: How Evaluation Can Strengthen Your Impact
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WEBINAR: Measuring Communications Success: How Evaluation Can Strengthen Your Impact
WEBINAR: Integrating DEI and Racial Equity Into Your Work
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WEBINAR: Integrating DEI and Racial Equity Into Your Work
ComNet22 Jones Award Keynote: Innocence Project
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ComNet22 Jones Award Keynote: Innocence Project
ComNet22 How Comms Is Shifting the Homelessness and Housing Conversation in Seattle
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ComNet22 How Comms Is Shifting the Homelessness and Housing Conversation in Seattle
ComNet22 Comms Lessons From the Pandemic, Produced in Partnership With The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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ComNet22 Comms Lessons From the Pandemic, Produced in Partnership With The Chronicle of Philanthropy
ComNet22 Comms for Good: The Power of Risk
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ComNet22 Comms for Good: The Power of Risk
ComNet22 The Comms Long Game: How the USWNT Won Their Fight for Equal Pay
Переглядів 312Рік тому
ComNet22 The Comms Long Game: How the USWNT Won Their Fight for Equal Pay
WEBINAR: How The San Francisco Foundation Revamped Internal Communications (Internal Comms Part 2)
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WEBINAR: How The San Francisco Foundation Revamped Internal Communications (Internal Comms Part 2)
WEBINAR: Where Does DEI Work Stand in 2022?
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WEBINAR: Where Does DEI Work Stand in 2022?
Webinar: The Fundamentals of Internal Communications - Part One
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Webinar: The Fundamentals of Internal Communications - Part One
WEBINAR: From Numbers to Narrative: Getting from Data to a Visual Story
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WEBINAR: From Numbers to Narrative: Getting from Data to a Visual Story