HOW to tell a powerful story + tips to transport and activate your audience
I’ve been leaning on beach reads this summer (to be honest, I lean on them year-round) and have always loved being transported to new places through stories.
But let’s be real, it’s easy to transport a reader to a beautiful beach on vacation. It’s a lot harder to transport them into, say, the lives of families in rural America.
Why people forget facts but remember stories - an intro to Effective Storytelling
Is your summer off to as hot and joyful a start as mine, Reader?
Our family spent the last week at an all-family violin camp in the Blue Ridge mountains, and it was a joy on so many levels (our girls did not want to come home!).
Being surrounded by music all week had me forgetting the heat (despite the lack of AC at camp) and remembering just how powerful art is and how every piece of art tells a story.
Have you heard the quote about how people forget facts but remember stories? That's definitely true but misses a key piece of the puzzle. People remember stories because they make them FEEL.
A Participatory Evaluation HOW TO: tips and tools for sensemaking, storytelling, and more
It was college reunion weekend at my alma mater (wahoowa!), and in addition to taking a few (literal) walks down memory lane, I thought a lot about feeling a sense of community and what magic combination of ingredients is needed to create that.
Shared experiences - especially those where you gain something of value and even more so those where you create something of value - are part of that secret sauce.
And participatory evaluation, when done well, checks all those boxes.
The 'P' in our CAPE: Participatory Evaluation - by the community + for the community
A recent book club discussion about the challenge of adult friendships in the present day has had me thinking a lot about the importance of a sense of community.
On that note, a portion of a recent conversation between two of my favorite thinkers, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and writer Anand Giridharadas, really struck me. Surgeon General Murthy shared that statistics show that people now are working more - “and parents are parenting more, even though they’re also working more.” He asks, “Where is that time coming from, that extra time? You put all this together and that time that is eroding is a time that we spend in person with family and friends, the time we spend for ourselves, and the time we spend for our communities.”
HOW to get to action with your collaborative: tips and tools for brainstorming, prioritizing, and more
Is it just me, or are you feeling the Maycember vibes too?
In addition to counting down to the end of the school year and to summer, I know many nonprofits and coalitions are also nearing the end of their fiscal year, which means new grants and projects might be on the horizon - so it’s a great time to think about what effective action planning looks like.
Get to ACTION to transform health in your community with PoP Health's action planning framework
I have an extra hop in my step and a desperate desire to GET. THINGS. DONE. (Currently at the top of my home list is tackling a round of Spring cleaning, beginning with our completely out-of-control basement…but I digress).
How about you?
In our work with community coalitions, getting to ACTION is often a major pain point. So let’s dive right in.
HOW to collaborate across your collaborative: What we can learn from Underpants Gnomes and other tips, strategies, and resources
Here at PoP Health, as we spring forward, we are also springing into part two of the first phase of our C.A.P.E. process: Community Collaboration - focused specifically on collaborating across your collaborative.
What do you mean by collaborating across our collaborative?
As I read in a recent post from Collaborate CIC, a UK-based social consultancy, “Calling something collaborative doesn’t necessarily make it so.”
Collaborating across your collaborative: helpful frameworks and questions to ask yourself
Here at PoP Health, as we spring forward, we are also springing into part two of the first phase of our C.A.P.E. process: Community Collaboration - focused specifically on collaborating across your collaborative.
What do you mean by collaborating across our collaborative?
HOW to put community voices in the driver’s seat
Are you ever told to do something and find yourself wondering, “Yes, but HOW?”
With PoP Health’s 2024 newsletter series, we want to be sure to at least begin to answer that question. For each phase of our C.A.P.E. process that we introduce, we’ll have an initial post orienting us to the topic and a second post that answers the “Yes, but HOW?” question.
Putting community voices in the driver’s seat
In this post, we’ll dive into the first phase of our C.A.P.E. process: Community Collaboration.
This month, we’re going to focus specifically on collaboration with community members - today, we’ll get oriented to what we mean by that and in a couple weeks, we’ll walk through some specific strategies in this arena.
Without further ado, let’s get into it - FAQ style.