Category: accountability

accountability, anti-racism, community building & outreach, equity-centered communications, graphic design, guides & tools, leadership, messaging, professional development, storytelling, website design, workplace culture
January 2021 Roundup
It’s a new year, and we’re back with a fresh roundup of resources curated from our community conversations. This series highlights thought-provoking articles, clever strategies, helpful tools on a monthly basis to keep your team up to date with the latest! Get resources in real-time & join the conversation on our community Slack channel.
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accountability, anti-racism, capacity building, communication strategy, community input, equity-centered communications, leadership, messaging
Making a Case for Community-led Communications Capacity Building
During this time of racial reckoning in combination with the global pandemic and catastrophic climate change, we must seize the opportunity to reinvent, reimagine and more effectively communicate a collective vision—a world of interconnectedness and collaboration, where those most impacted are prioritized and communications and technology are used to “sustain, heal and empower” rather than…
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accountability, anti-racism, community building & outreach, leadership, organizing, workplace culture
We stand in solidarity against racist policies, systemic oppression & white supremacy
Like many of you, our team has been filled with a lot of conflicting emotions around the recent events – anger, fear, frustration, inspiration and energy to fight. Internally, we have been holding a lot of discussions over the last year about race, racism and systematic oppression. Like many others, our immediate response to the…
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accountability, audience profiles, audience segmentation, brand strategy, communication strategy, focus groups, stakeholder interviews, user research
Tips for Conducting Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder interviews are an extremely useful process for your nonprofit and can be used in a variety of situations.
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accountability, audience profiles, audience segmentation, brand strategy, community building & outreach, community input, focus groups, guides & tools, stakeholder interviews
4 Tips For Visual Consistency: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Unifying Your Marketing Materials
Maintaining a consistent visual presence is hard. Creating a quick brand guide can help you ensure everyone in your organization is maintaining a consistency in all of your marketing materials. Here’s how to get started in 4 simple steps! 1. Pick 1-2 fonts You do not need to be a typographic guru to know what…
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accountability, audience profiles, brand strategy, capacity building, communication strategy, equity-centered communications, leadership, project process, workplace culture
Empathy, Identity and Community
Outrospective Marketing in the 21st Century
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accountability, internal communications, leadership, messaging, professional development, workplace culture
What is Design Thinking?
What Does Designful Thinking Mean? I read the below excerpt by Holly Willis, a Design Educator who spoke at a recent AIGA conference and thought it was a really good way of explaining what I mean when I say “Designful Thinking” — a term being used a lot lately to describe how design can be applied…
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accountability, communication strategy, community building & outreach, equity-centered communications, leadership
Sharing Ideas Builds Community
I find myself so often telling clients that the most important thing they can do is to share ideas with other experts in their field. Partially, I say this because the internet is “word of mouth” and is the most powerful grassroots tool available. I also say this because as they read, share and interact…
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accountability, collaboration techniques, internal communications, leadership, professional development, workplace culture
Strategic Leadership
One of my dMBA collegues wrote, “Michael Jordan was able to bring out the best in everyone.”
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