Stories For Impact is a campaign to develop resources, tools, workshops and community events to help
organisations tell and share powerful stories so that they can amplify their message more effectively, and create greater positive change in the world.
CAMPAIGN UPDATES:
We are thrilled to have Social Outcomes standing behind us as a Supporting Partner of Stories for Impact! We spoke to Managing Director Sandy Blackburn-Wright about why social entrepreneurs need to be powerful storytellers and why social enterprises
need to get involved with Stories For Impact. WATCH NOW!
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) Australia are a Supporting Partner of Stories for Impact! Hear SSE CEO Celia Hodson talk about why social entrepreneurs need to be powerful storytellers and why she loves the Stories For Impact platform!
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The Problem
At Digital Storytellers, we've worked with hundreds of social enterprises, nonprofits, community groups and other changemakers. And we have come to realise that those who are out there creating positive change in the world are so deeply immersed
in solving entrenched and complex problems, that (understandably) they have relatively little time and resources to tell their stories effectively.
However, the road to change involves engaging others in action – whether this be a team, investors, key decision-makers or the public. We've seen the power of skillfully crafted stories to generate awareness, inspire action and create impact
through marketing, fundraising, grant writing, community building and beyond. And with the proliferation of digital media the opportunity for further reach and engagement through storytelling is significant.
That’s where Stories For Impact comes in....
We believe that well-told stories have the power to create positive change. We want to make it simple (and more fun!) for organisations doing good to create and share stories that matter.
We've pooled together our learnings about how to tell powerful stories of change, and we've also been studying and curating the best-of-the-best of storytelling best practices and case studies from around the world.
We have distilled these learnings into Stories For Impact - a series of tools, resources, workshops and community events for the changemaking community to help organisations and individuals doing good to tell their
stories more effectively and amplify the positive change they are creating. These resources and events will be easily accessible to social and sustainability impact organisations, without the need for a big budget or expensive equipment!
We are creating....
Stories
For Impact Canvas A simple one-page guidesheet, inspired by the popular 'Business Model Canvas' which will provide a true and tested framework for crafting an effective impact story. The Canvas will guide users through the
process of finding and refining your story, analysing your audience, identifying outcomes and producing and deploying stories to achieve maximum impact.
Stories For Impact eBook The eBook will expand and provide further detailed information on the information introduced in the Canvas, guiding readers through the process of finding and refining your story, analysing your
audience, identifying outcomes and developing content to achieve maximum impact. The eBook is packed with top storytelling tips from us here at
Digital Storytellers as well of those of other Impact Storytellers and Producers from around the world
‘What’s Your Impact Story?’ Workshops A half-day intensive workshop guiding participants on how to do powerful social impact storytelling for their cause or organisation. These workshops will be focused
on empowering participants do this without the need for expensive equipment or a big budget and how to create stories for all types of platforms including film, online, print and more.
Campaign supporters at $100 and above will be able to attend one of these workshop during Changemaker's Festival in Sydney (October 21, Hub Sydney), Melbourne (October) or online via a live screening.
Find out more about the 'What's Your Impact Story?' Workshops here!
Customised Storytelling Clinics Special workshops delivered to organisations and enterprises
who want to equip their team with skills for social impact storytelling, foster a culture of impact storytelling within the organisation and troubleshoot exisitng storytelling strategies. Depending on individual needs, these workshops may cover filmmaking,
digital content, marketing and branding, impact evaluation, social media, story curation and more. These workshops will range from a half-day to two full days, with follow up mentoring sessions.
For more information about the Custom Workshops email contact AT digitalstorytellers DOT com DOT au
Digital Storytelling for Social impact? Don't just take our word for it...
Rockefeller Foundation recently released a report - Digital Storytelling for Social Impact which draws on interviews and roundtable discussions with thought leaders in philanthropy, business, entertainment media and news, brand strategy, technology, government,
nonprofits and other sectors of social impact.
They conducted a technical platform assessment and landscape analysis to evaluate the current state of digital storytelling. The report highlighted the power of storytelling as a valuable tool for social impact to spread impact.
However, the report found that there is a lack of:
“guidance on how to tell, store, share and curate compelling and motivating stories...” and called on “foundations, businesses and the nonprofit community... to ensure that social impact organizations are truly becoming storytelling organizations.”
The Stories for Impact campaign will directly meet this need. See the full
report here.
Why should I pledge to the Stories for Impact campaign?
You’re a social entrepreneur, nonprofit worker or changemaker and want to build your, or your organisation's, skills in storytelling for impact. In this case, you'll love the one-pager story canvas, eBook and workshops!
You believe in the power of storytelling for positive change and want to be part of building accessible
resources which will help those doing good to use storytelling to create bigger and better impact.
You want to work with us here at Digital Storytellers on refining your storytelling strategies or even by having us work on a production for you! By supporting the campaign, you have the opportunity to do this at a reduced rate.
You want to support Digital Storytellers in building the next phase of the our vision for change. If this project succeeds, it will allow us to pursue our dream of changing the world through story, by creating an army of impact storytellers! Launching
Stories For Impact will enable us to sustain ourselves to build this vision. We'll give you a big hug at our launch party!
You just simply love the idea of Stories For Impact and the future that it will create!
While this campaign is focused on helping social enterprises, nonprofits, community groups and other changemakers
tell better stories - and to create an ‘army’ of social change storytellers, empowered to use storytelling for good, Stories For Impact is part of a bigger vision where positive change stories are powerful and ALSO have a platform to be heard and
spark action.
By pledging to the campaign, you are helping to set the wheels in motion in creating this vision - get behind our campaign today!
Stay in Touch
Facebook: www.facebook.com/101storytellers
Website: www.digitalstorytellers.com.au
Email: contactATdigitalstorytellersDOTcomDOTau
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