Impact Storytelling for Grantmaking: 3-Month Immersive Program Begins September 17th, 2025

This online training series is a crash course on storytelling skills development with your social and environmental impact data. You will bring your data to the sessions and learn various techniques to improve the analysis and communication of your philanthropic work.

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This is a practice based course. You should come with data you want to analyze for a pilot project identified that you would like to work on through the six sessions, such as a board report, impact brief, or case study. This program is designed to get you skilled up and to start work on the pilot project, but finalization will likely take longer than the program duration depending on what you select. If you do not have your own data or case, we can provide you with sample data to learn all of the skills and then you can apply these skills to your work later on.

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There will be short theory and tip-based sessions that open every session, group work to hone and practice the theories and skills shared, and peer to peer learning, knowledge exchange and feedback. For many sessions, we will also use real case studies of data from people enrolled in the course to collectively learn from and give feedback on. At the end of the session, you will have homework.

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At the end of this training series, participants will be able to:

1. Transform raw philanthropic data into compelling narratives and products that effectively communicate social and environmental impact.
2. Apply appropriate analytical techniques for financial and grantmaking datasets.
3. Extract meaningful insights from qualitative text data and stories of change.
4. Develop structured case studies that showcase program outcomes and learnings.
5. Integrate quantitative and qualitative data analysis to create more robust impact stories.
6. Provide constructive feedback on peers' data storytelling approaches.

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All sessions will be recorded and materials will be sent to participants in case you are not able to make a session, you will still have access to all of the resources.

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