November 2019

Balancing Data Strategy And Story

Emotional Storytelling: Why the Story of One Beats the Statistics

People don’t relate to statistics. People relate to people. Emotional storytelling is the single most underused tool in nonprofit communication, and most organizations bury it under a pile of dreary statistics. We featured Than Baardson, co-founder of Unseen, on The Ministry Growth Show, and he put words to the tension every mission-driven organization feels. Unseen […]

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Impact storytelling practices for churches and nonprofit ministry communication

Impact Storytelling: 4 Practices for Churches and Nonprofits

Your ministry has stories worth telling. The question is whether you are telling them in a way that connects or in a way that reports. Impact storytelling is the discipline of turning real outcomes into narratives that honor the people in them and move the people who hear them. Here are four practices that separate stories that inform from stories that stay.

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