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Announcing New Outreach and Engagement Grants

Congratulations to the following new Fledgling outreach grantees:   Bending the Arc Directed by Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos As the poorest nations battled intractable diseases, a group of unstoppable…

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Great Read About The Elements of Impact From Caty Borum Chattoo

Fledgling friend and Engagement Lab Advisor Caty Borum Chattoo has recently published this great article about the six elements of the Blackfish outreach campaign that led to social impact:  Amplified Community…

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Useful Research from Yale Project for Climate Change Communication

Written by, Sheila Leddy: We recently received a question from someone working on climate change, who was interested in any research we might know of on how to frame communication and messaging around that issue for a Catholic audience. Off the top of my head, none came to mind. So I reached out to a friend who referred me to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.…

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Keep It Brief

Written by Emily Verellen Strom: I recently asked a filmmaker “What’s the summary of your film?” The filmmaker (who will remain nameless, but shares a common verbose quality with many other filmmakers I know) then proceeded to give a six-minute (I timed it) synopsis of her film. I then asked her for her elevator pitch version – it shrunk by about two minutes.…

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Insurgent Principles

Written by Emily Verellen Strom Another lesson I took away from my recent trip to The Redford Center‘s retreat was about “Insurgent Strategy”, from a talk given by Scott Miller,…

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