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.
This template accompanies the Communications Strategy 101 Factsheet and provides you with a structure to map out the implementation of your communications work.
This template provides you prompt questions for crafting key messages for your community foundations, your funding opportunities, any topics you are regularly communicating about and any specific events. Make sure your key messages reflect the tone and purpose of your community foundation.
How to create a communications strategy off the side of your desk, just like a pro, for small community foundations.