Creative Change Coalition, Technical Assistance Workshop: Framing and Storytelling for Organizations

Date: March 26, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm CST
Location: Zoom Meeting
Price: Free
Category: Creative Change Coalition

Join the Creative Change Coalition for a workshop focused on how to position your organization’s work and results to attract funders, journalists, and partners. In this hands-on workshop, you'll develop powerful framing strategies and create a draft to spark meaningful conversations with your colleagues.

What is the story you are trying to tell? Whether you're trying to attract funders, journalists, supporters, or partners, effectively communicating the value and impact of your organization’s work is essential. In this practical workshop, move beyond the what to the why by understanding how to position your work with artists in terms of the results.

Led by Springboard for the Arts leadership, this workshop will begin with examples and strategies for framing your work, followed by guided reflection and peer feedback to help you develop a draft to spark more conversation with the rest of your organization.

Event Details:

- Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- 12-1:30PM PDT / 2-3:30PM CDT / 3-4:30PM EDT (US & Canada)
- All are welcome, designed for place-based organizations
- Free, Zoom Meeting

Online Platform: Zoom Meeting. Meetings are designed to be a collaborative event with all participants being able to turn on their video and audio, and see who else is in attendance.
Breakout Rooms: Breakout rooms (smaller discussion groups that are separate from the main Zoom session) may be used during this event. Participation in breakout rooms is optional.
Recording: This session will not be recorded.
Captioning: This event will be captioned using AI generated live transcription.
Register: To register, click on the red "Register" button above. If you have questions, email sara@springboardforthearts.org.

Workshop Facilitators:

Jun-Li Wang (Associate Director, Springboard for the Arts): Jun-Li Wang is a connector of people, places and ideas, with extensive experience in asset-based community development and place-based organizing. Jun-Li has received multiple grants for her projects Saint Paul Hello, an initiative welcoming newcomers, and Board Repair, a network supporting people of color on nonprofit boards. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MPS in International Development from Cornell University.

Laura Zabel (Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts): Laura Zabel is the Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts, an economic and community development agency run by and for artists. Springboard’s mission is to support artists with the tools to make a living and a life, and to build just and equitable communities full of meaning, joy, and connection. In 2021, Springboard launched one of the nation’s first guaranteed income programs focused on artists, inspired by the city of St. Paul and Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. Laura is also a theater artist.