Nov
16
5 Take-Aways from Telling It Like It Is: The Power of Stories to Spur Change
Annual Conference , Foundation , Nonprofit , Story Telling , Voice No Comments »Guest post by Emily G. Culbertson, a Chicago-based nonprofit consultant
Why do we tell stories? To make friends, entertain, and teach, no doubt, but I also suspect we tell stories to make sense of the world around us. If we're working for social change, we tell ourselves stories -- about hunger, homelessness, lack of health care, you name it -- to help understand urgent problems and bring them to life, and more importantly to human size, where we might do something about them.
