Storytelling for Nonprofits

  • April 10, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

  • Central Standard Time

Ticket Price $11.14-$104.02 This event is now over
Description

In today’s economic and political climate nonprofit organization must work harder to be noticed by funders, potential stakeholders, and even prospective clients. Your staff may be feeling the strain of doing more with less.

Having a well-crafted and authentic story will help you persuade granting organizations that you are the right nonprofit in your field for them to fund, help your stakeholders communicate your mission more effectively, and make your outreach to clients that much more powerful. What’s more, when your staff knows your story and believes in it, they will be more passionate about their work in the face of adversity.

This participatory, 75-minute introductory workshop will help you identify some of your organization’s key story elements, craft those elements into several narratives appropriate for different audiences, know when to use those stories, and conquer the challenges of telling your story. You'll leave the workshop with a story to tell, the ability to change it for different audiences, and the skills to develop more stories.

This workshop will be recorded and an edited version (facilitator lecture only, no participant face, stories, or questions) will be available for two weeks after the event for those whose ticket includes it.

Your facilitator, Laura Packer, has been helping organizations find, craft, and tell their stories for almost two decades. Find out more at thinkstory.com.

Date & Time

Thu, Apr 10, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Laura Packer

The stories we tell matter. Whether we are telling to kids, crafting a presentation for work, preparing for a concert, or something else entirely, what we say and how we say it is important. 

Listening matters. When we listen to each other we find understanding and compassion we might otherwise have missed. 

Storyteller, coach, and author Laura Packer has 30+ years of experience helping people create and share stories, listen to each other more deeply, and leading organizations and individuals to better stories and deeper self-understanding.. She understands the transformational power of storytelling and listening, and how they help us understand ourselves, each other, and the world.

In addition to her award-winning performance and writing work, Laura is an experienced coach and educator, helping people understand themselves, their stories, and their worlds.. Her coaching and teaching work ranges from storytelling to writing to creativity to social change and more, and has been described as "transformational."

As the sole proprietor of thinkstory.com, Laura helps for- and non-profits identify, craft and hone their stories. Whether for marketing, recruitment, fund raising, leadership, or something else, every organization has stories that need to be told.

Find out more at laurapacker.com and thinkstory.com