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#24: Your silence has a cost too

Free templates, frameworks and AI prompts for better social impact storytelling

#23: How to make the algorithm pick you. The playbook for posting with purpose (Part 2 of 2).

#22: The algorithm picked your story for you. Here's the remedy (Part 1 of 2).

#21: Your social impact story has one job too many

#20: Five questions you keep asking. Each one answered.

#19: Your permission to post isn't coming. So here's what to do instead.

#18: When the hate is personal

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#24: Your silence has a cost too

Free templates, frameworks and AI prompts for better social impact storytelling

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#22: The algorithm picked your story for you. Here's the remedy (Part 1 of 2).

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#20: Five questions you keep asking. Each one answered.

#19: Your permission to post isn't coming. So here's what to do instead.

#18: When the hate is personal

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Your work changes lives. Make sure the people with funding can see it. One idea every Thursday. Free.

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Good work doesn't fund itself. Better stories do.

Every Thursday: one storytelling idea, one template, one AI prompt.
For charity and social impact leaders who need funders to say yes more often.