Learn how to combine data and storytelling to make your advocacy more persuasive and impactful. This webinar with Social Current Strategic Industry Partner CCNY, Inc. offers practical strategies for turning program outcomes into compelling materials that influence funders, policymakers, and community partners.
Our strength lies in our communities and our collective impact. Social Current’s December Grassroots Advocacy Network convening will discuss strategies to translate our shared power through community-wide advocacy.
While federal advocacy often gets the spotlight, many impactful policy changes happen closer to home. This webinar will explore how to navigate state legislatures, local councils, and administrative bodies, including where and when to engage. Participants will learn how to align local advocacy strategies with federal priorities, build relationships with state and municipal policymakers, and mobilize community voices to influence change.
This webinar will offer strategies to leverage digital tools and narrative techniques to communicate impact, strengthen organizational visibility, and amplify advocacy engagement. Presenters will share practical approaches for designing ethical social media campaigns, creating accessible data visualizations, and developing strategies to increase outreach and grow engagement. Participants will learn how to pair compelling stories with concise metrics to build trust, inspire action, and amplify advocacy messages.
Our stories are one of the most impactful and effective assets the human services sector has when developing and advocating for key changes. However, meaningful, sustainable, and authentic storytelling requires thoughtful practices to safeguard participants’ agency and well-being. This webinar will focus on helping organizations build trauma-informed, empowering pathways for clients and community members to shape the narrative of central issues within and beyond our communities.
Our stories are one of the most impactful and effective assets the human sector has when developing and advocating for key changes. However, meaningful, sustainable, and authentic storytelling requires thoughtful practices to safeguard participants’ agency and well-being. This webinar will focus on helping organizations build trauma-informed, empowering pathways for clients and community members to shape the narrative of central issues within and beyond our communities.
Effective policy development requires a holistic understanding of individuals' lived experiences to fully understand central issues and how they manifest. This webinar will review multifaceted strategies to better understand the unique concerns, needs, and challenges communities face and to translate shared wisdom into actionable policy priorities.
This webinar offers a practical framework for crisis communications and rapid response planning, helping human service professionals establish protocols that prepare their organizations to respond to a rapidly shifting climate. Participants will review strategies for preparing an organizational plan, including ethical considerations for ensuring thoughtful, purposeful responses remain issue focused and values driven.
Engaging in policy and advocacy often presents complex challenges, especially as the federal environment shifts rapidly and the resulting regulations and legislation carry far-reaching impacts. This webinar is designed to demystify policy conversations and provide practical tools to help staff feel informed, confident, and empowered to participate in advocacy efforts.
This webinar is designed to support human services organizations in engaging in responsive, strategic advocacy by clarifying the legal responsibilities and opportunities available to 501(c)(3) organizations. Participants will examine the distinctions between advocacy and lobbying through practical case studies, and gain clarity on what activities are permitted, restricted, or reportable.
Our April Grassroots Advocacy Network convening will offer a practical framework for strengthening legislative advocacy through effective testimony, elevator pitches, and tailored messaging. Participants will explore how to distill complex issues into persuasive narratives, customize messages to different audiences, and align advocacy communications with organizational values and goals.
When advocating on behalf of our organizations and communities, the language we use and how we frame our messages are among our greatest opportunities for connection. As we craft compelling messages, it is essential to prepare and deliver them with discipline, consistency, and authenticity.