Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Effective Communications Strategy

Explore the ins and outs of communication, how to craft effective messaging and share the great corporate philanthropy work that you do through various channels.
Explore the ins and outs of communication, how to craft effective messaging and share the great corporate philanthropy work that you do through various channels.
This webinar will feature essential storytelling tips, highlight creative ways to repurpose your existing work and show you how to efficiently use downtime to stock a pantry full of useful ingredients to tell the right story when you're crunched for time.
Strategic planning can be both a daunting and invigorating experience for an organization. This webinar is designed to help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
How visible and accessible should your family's philanthropy be to others? It's a classic question with multiple correct answers based on faith, family tradition, regulatory frameworks, strategy and many more factors.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Project is a resource to help the foundation and nonprofit communicators identify opportunities to improve racial equity through their work.
Addressing a community’s information needs is a critical aspect of supporting a vibrant and healthy democracy. As community and place-based foundations increase their participation in this work, they realize they cannot do it alone. Partnerships are vital to their success, whether they are developing online platforms for community dialogue, financing new online professional news outlets, or otherwise providing venues for community engagement about important issues affecting residents’ lives.
Storytelling for Good connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community that can help you leverage the power of narrative to increase reach, resources and impact for your social impact organization.
Foundations are committing more resources than ever before to communicate about their work and missions -- yet grantees continue to give funders low marks when it comes to fostering a clear understanding of what the foundation is trying to accomplish and where they fit in. To address this gap, Spitfire Strategies developed From Big Ideas to Big Change. This report examines how foundations communicate about their change strategies and offers advice for effectively engaging foundation staff, grantees, and other audiences in communications efforts that succeed in turning a vision of change into reality.
Use the report and planning tool to:
Clarify how to consistently describe your foundation's change strategy to all important audiences.
Identify central concepts of your change strategy and determine the roles the foundation, grantees, and others will play in order to communicate effectively about them.
Track communications progress at multiple levels to get feedback and make adjustments that will lead to greater impact.
A collection of downloadable sample documents related to Communications & Marketing.