Let’s collectively leverage strategic tools and networks to strengthen our resilience against online hate, ensuring advocacy and support remain steadfast and impactful from coast to coast to coast. We hope you find these helpful and we welcome any feedback or additional resources you have used in the past. This will be an ever-changing document as…
In today's digital landscape, your website and social media platforms serve as the initial touchpoints for your community to engage with you. You can keep your audience informed and engaged by providing up-to-date news and information through your website, further showcasing your accomplishments. Establishing a strong online presence can foster meaningful connections and cultivate a…
Storytelling comes in many forms. It is an ancient tool which facilitates connection, enables communication, contributes to creative sense-making, and is considered part of how culture(s) form and transform. In our perspective as facilitators and storytellers, we view storytelling as one of many tools to facilitate systems transformation. Such narratives—which catalyze change—is what we call…
This document is a step-by-step guide to storytelling, walking you through the process of creating stories that will have an impact on your audience. We encourage you to use this factsheet alongside the Equity Principles for Storytelling which provides some considerations and questions for storytelling.
This bilingual slideshow corresponds with the Media relations for rural community foundations webinar recording, which is also in the resource library. --- Ces diapositives bilingues accompagne la webinaire Comment faire une proposition d’article. Cette ressource est aussi dans la bibliothèque des ressources.
This factsheet was created to help rural community foundations create story pitches for news outlets. These pitches can be for funding announcements, Vital Signs reports, recipients’ stories, and any other stories the CF would like to share with their community.
Local and rural media have a critical role in sharing the impact of community foundations. Join us as we explore how guides and templates can give community foundations the tools they need to build and pitch stories. This session is specifically designed for rural and small-town media relations. In this practical, interactive session, we will…
This factsheet provides you with an overview of how to create a brand for your community foundation or program. It includes understanding your brand, choosing colours, choosing typography and design principles to follow.
In this interactive workshop, we will walk through how to develop a brand guide, including logo, colour palette and typography. We’ll then see how you can put a brand guide into practice to create visuals for your website, social media and documents.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and having a clear, engaging and professional visual identity strengthens a community foundation's ability to tell its story. In this workshop, we walk through how to develop a brand guide, including logo, colour palette and typography. We’ll then see how you can put a brand guide into practice.