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Insights from a collective of change-makers
Discover practical advice to enhance both internal operations and external impact. Crafted with team leaders in mind, our content draws from real-world experiences to guide organisations at every stage of their journey.
Choosing Hope: On Authenticity, Courage, and What We Owe Each Other Right Now
What I am seeing now feels different. Not in its scale — the sector has faced serious moments before — but in its texture. The pressure is coming from multiple directions at once and targeting something more fundamental than funding or political will. It is targeting the language itself.
The terms that the rights-based sector spent decades building into the shared vocabulary of accountability are being actively removed from the frameworks that gave them force.
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Apr 36 min read
When the Storyteller Is Also the Subject: What Happens When Indigenous Filmmakers Hold the Camera
For most of the history of documentary filmmaking, the stories of Indigenous communities were told by people who came from outside them. Sometimes those people were skilled and respectful. Often they were not. In either case, they carried assumptions about what the story was, who needed to hear it, and what form it should take.
The result was a body of work that documented communities with almost no community control.
Feb 18
Whose Story Is It? How to Tell Community Stories with Honesty and Integrity
Every organisation working in international development, conservation, or social justice tells stories. Most do it with good intentions.
But good intentions are not enough.
After 25 years in strategic communications, I've seen the same pattern repeated more times than I can count. An organisation wants to tell a community's story. They send a photographer and a writer. The donors respond. And somewhere in the process, the community becomes a backdrop.
Feb 12, 2025
The Stories That Move Funders
The organisations that raise the most effectively are not the ones with the most sophisticated donor strategies. They are the ones that have learned to tell the truth about their work in a way that the people funding it can actually feel.
That is harder than it sounds. And it matters more than most communications advice acknowledges.
Jun 13, 2024
What's your organisation's story?
Every organisation working on something that matters has a story worth telling. The question is rarely whether the story exists — it is whether anyone has taken the time to find it, shape it, and trust it enough to share it.
The organisations struggling most to communicate are rarely struggling because their work is unclear. They are struggling because the story underneath the work has never been properly told.
Apr 26, 2024
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