Center for Public Interest Communications

Take your strategy beyond raising awareness this fall.

Join our transformative Essentials of Public Interest Communications course and dive deep into behavioral, social, and cognitive science to develop strategic communications that drive real change.

Who Should Attend: This course is ideal for communications professionals, public health leaders, nonprofits, social change advocates, behavioral scientists, and anyone looking to enhance their storytelling skills and power action-focused initiatives.

Course Dates: Aug. 27- Oct. 8

Register before Aug. 1 with code PICFallSavings for a $300 discount:

Members of Congress want to partner with foundations, but need more clarity on how they work. Step up your storytelling and language with help from a new report by the Council on Foundations and the Center for Public Interest Communications. https://buff.ly/4cIHrde

Want to show your foundation’s impact? Tell better stories! A new report from the Council on Foundations and the Center for Public Interest Communications shows how. https://buff.ly/4cIHrde

Foundations use too much jargon. A new report from the Council on Foundations and the Center for Public Interest Communications offers better language to build understanding in philanthropy. https://buff.ly/4cIHrde

The stories foundations tell can add up to narratives that build trust–or undermine it. We have six science-backed recommendations for how philanthropy can do it better.

Philanthropy's New Voice: Building Trust With Deeper Stories and Clear Language United States foundations are an essential element of America’s social sector, supporting causes from public libraries to groundbreaking research, to new approaches to building a more equitable world. But despite their reach, foundations have an identity problem. From small towns to Washington, D....

New Year's resolution? Learn the frameworks of public interest communications to build effective strategies designed to drive change on the issues that matter most. Register now for our 2024 workshops.

Gift yourself this season It’s the time of year where we’re likely all making our lists, and checking them twice. As we wrap up 2023, why not dedicate some time to your own professional development with a digital credential in public interest communications?

Register today for our 2024 courses. Develop a deeper understanding of how to apply the fundamental frameworks of public interest communications to your work. Learn from university faculty through live, online classes.https://realgoodcenter.jou.ufl.edu/training/strategic-communications-academy-for-changemakers/

The Council is coming to ! Our VP of Communications, Nicole Bronzan, and Aaron Zeiler of Center for Public Interest Communications will share how we can tell better stories with better language to lift up the positive impact of philanthropy.

If you’re headed to the conference, stop by our ShowCase Session! For more on this work: https://bit.ly/3OGZqFP

Becoming a transformative changemaker requires virtuoso-level communications skills. Register today for a series of lively and hands-on workshops that will change how you think about strategic communication, going beyond simply “raising awareness.” Don't miss this opportunity to earn your digital certificate in Essentials of Public Interest Communications.

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"There is a pervasive narrative in US culture—from pop culture to politics—that poverty is a result of individual choices and therefore requires individualistic solutions. These individualistic stories are easy to tell. Yet, they are inaccurate and do not match what data and research tell us: people are primarily poor because the institutions that make up our society systematically ignore and disenfranchise people of color, women, and gender-queer people, as well as working-class people of all identities."

Another update on our work with Radical Communicators Network and Milli on the narratives on povery and wealth.

Building Narrative Power for Economic Justice by Telling Better Stories - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly To advance economic justice, movement organizations need to step up their narrative game. Based on three years of research, here are some tips for how to do so.

Did you miss the frank gathering? Hosted by our Center, this 3-day gathering is a learning community and where you need to be to advance your craft! Watch the closing video from our 10th frank gathering.

frank2023 - closing video Scenes from "The Long View" Feb 15-17, 2023

The countdown to is on! Six more days. On the mainstage next week, Fatma ElRefaei, Rick Serdiuk and Hari Pulapaka will share how we can maintain our sense of self in the now while we work toward the long term:

• Karel Fellow Fatma ElRefaei reflects on her childhood during the Egyptian revolution and her work with Greenpeace to explore how social justice movements cultivate creativity and spark momentum.

• Hear how creative director and co-founder of Banda Agency Rick Serdiuk turned shock and rage into creative energy for change in Ukraine.

• Professor, chef and founder of Global Cooking School Hari Pulapaka talks food, sustainability and connection on the mainstage.

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We're ONE WEEK AWAY from ! Change doesn't happen overnight, but it can start at frank. Check out some of the speakers who will join us on the mainstage next week to examine the long view of social change.

• Narrative Initiative founding member and podcast co-host Nima Shirazi will share why wrestling is the ultimate storytelling medium.

• Award-winning filmmaker, producer and writer Rodrigo Dorfman will speak to the diverse future of the South and the world. He’ll encourage us to follow a path from resistance to resilience.

• Learn to tell better stories with BROKE team Annie Neimand, Michael Huang, Trina Stout and Shanelle Matthews, who will share how to build narrative power for economic justice.

• Rita Allen Fellow Lia Kelinsky-Jones will explore how we can fulfill global community needs through sustainable and just climate-resilient systems.

• Political advocacy specialist Mikka Kei MacDonald and Social Current founder Ashwath Narayanan will show us how we can connect conversations by influentials and content creators to our larger missions.

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We're taking the long view of the past at frank. On the mainstage in two weeks to explore where we've been: Banafsheh Madaninejad, Nell McShane Wulfhart and Mark Milton Chambers. Register online today: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

• This revolution can’t be silenced. Scholar-activist Banafsheh Madaninejad will share how 43 years of women’s movements in Iran led to this moment in the Women, Life, Freedom revolution.

• Journalist and decision coach Nell McShane Wulfhart will discuss her book, "The Great Stewardess Rebellion," and how the women’s movement and labor movement are inextricably connected.

• Hear how one early French community in Missouri worked together to protect their lives from lead poisoning with historian and Civic Science Fellow Mark Milton Chambers.

See you at !

What happens if we fail to consider the long-term consequences of our choices? Rachel Weidinger, Falisha Hola, Rianna Walcott and Brandi Collins-Dexter will share their perspectives on taking the long view at . Here's a preview of their talks:

• Find your narrative 'North Star' with Narrative Initiative's Rachel Weidinger. Rachel will share tools to find common ground on narrative.

• In her talk, "Erasure – Claiming Space with Communications," Karel Fellow Falisha Hola shares how communications can uplift the voices of those who are most affected by social issues.

• University of Maryland postdoctoral associate Rianna Walcott explores how we prioritize long-term self-care as active self-preservation for people of color.

• Author and Harvard scholar Brandi Collins-Dexter helps us find joy and escape amid imperfect systems of entertainment and narrative.

Will you join our community of changemakers at ? Register online:
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In her latest book, author and NYU associate professor Jennifer Jacquet uses satire and parody to show how corporations sow doubt about science. We'll hear from Jacquet and other changemakers at . Join us online: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

Founder of Radical Communicators Network Shanelle Matthews builds narrative power for social justice. She joins us on the mainstage to explore the successes and failures of the defund movement and what it means for the future. You won't want to miss this: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

Data has the potential to reveal new paths forward. At , we'll hear from social strategist and advocate for data-based decision-making Kate Davies about using data for the public good. Register for our online sessions: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

Frontline Solutions co-founder Micah Gilmer helps us build strength for tomorrow at . In his talk, Gilmer will share how we can turn equity values into courageous leadership. Join us online Feb. 15 -17: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

Comedian and immigration/civil rights attorney Yasmin Elhady has toured the globe using comedy to create humanity. She joins us at next month, and you can too. Register for our online option: https://buff.ly/3H8hDIH

Music 🤝 Social science. Genre-defying musician, author and podcast host Dessa will wow the mainstage with her talk about musicians’ “sustained panic” and the creation of music as catharsis. https://buff.ly/3WgVbE1

Transformative organizer, and executive director of
SOUL - Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation Tanya Watkins will join us to share her work in abolition in this moment.

Tanya is one of nearly two dozen social change leaders speaking at . Join us, won't you? https://buff.ly/3hvVhr9

Mia Birdsong, an advocate for strengthening communities and building systems for self-determination, will kick off Feb. 15 as our first mainstage speaker. Join us for the gathering and hear from Mia and dozens of other change agents. https://buff.ly/3XgDSTA

At , we'll hear from scholar Francesca Tripodi who studies how groups use the algorithms that drive our media consumption for their benefit. She'll unveil why those strategies are so effective and pervasive and helps us see the motivations of those who use this practice. Join us: https://buff.ly/3XgDSTA

Hard to believe, but just 30 days until launches. Join us for the gathering for people who change the world, Feb. 15-17, 2023 in Gainesville, Fla., and online.

Register today to claim your seat -- only a few more in-person seats remain and rates go up Friday, Jan. 20!

frank2023 - frank gathering Feb. 14-17, 2023. We’ll examine the long view of social change–as a form of self-care, a call to building a better world, and an imperative.

Join us at the frank Gathering to be a part of the conversation on some of the most pressing issues facing social change today. With a lineup of incredible speakers, you won't want to miss out. Get your tickets now at https://buff.ly/3WgVbE1

frank2023 - frank gathering Feb. 14-17, 2023. We’ll examine the long view of social change–as a form of self-care, a call to building a better world, and an imperative.

Change can come in bursts and isn't always linear. studies public opinion and shares insights on progress made on expanding rights in many corners of the globe.

Join us at to learn from Dr. Saldaña and others. Register today https://buff.ly/3WgVbE1

Bringing the past alive in the present is one strategy of long view thinking.

At , we'll hear from Kamau Sadiki, a master diver, who works to restore Black history including the rediscovery of The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States.

Artists like FaylitaHicks help us imagine new futures. Their work in the realm of abolition epitomizes this. Join Faylita and all the speakers Feb. 14-17, 2023. Registration open now: frankgathering.org/frank2023