Engaging The Community (And Potential Funders) Through Storytelling: 8 Tips

Can telling stories create real change? You bet it can! Hone your leadership skills by developing a set of stories that you can share with volunteers, funders, donors, and within the community as a whole. Remember that most good stories:

1. Create surprise.
2. Touch people’s hearts and generate real feelings.
3. Paint a visual picture.
4. Have a (sometimes unexpected) hero or heroine.
5. Engage others to tell their own stories.
6. Help people see reality a little differently.
7. Have a short version and a longer version.
8. Have a call to action built in at the end.

For more resources on storytelling, see this post from Kivi Leroux Miller.