Define common terms and communicate core messages

Tools for Communicating Your Core Messages Webinar Recording

Hand out a list of indicators about child and youth outcomes, or a list of goals to develop community supports for youth, and you risk creating communications overload. Key communications tools, such as storytelling and visuals, can help keep your stakeholders and community on the mark and moving forward. In this webinar, participants learned about these tools and how leaders used them effectively.

Featuring Patrick Boyle, Communications Director, the Forum for Youth Investment

Monday, November 19, 2012

Short Description:

Ambitious leaders with big plans sometimes give people TMI: Too Much Information.

Partner:

Forum for Youth Investment

Standards :

Define common terms and communicate core messages

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Establishing a Balanced Set of Goals: Guiding the Way Webinar Recording

Participants were introduced to activities for building agreement and heard about potential indicators for goals across developmental years and the range of outcomes, as developed by the Forum and Child Trends.

Presenters: Suzanne Hershey, Senior Fellow, the Forum for Youth Investment and former Facilitator of the Ready by 21 initiative, Austin, Tex.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Short Description:

Conceiving goals and indicators is easy. The challenge is getting community leaders to agree on goals and indicators that cover all young people of all age groups, in all aspects of their lives—from education and health to interpersonal skills and job readiness.

Audience Sector:

Advocacy

Non‐profit/Foundation

Scope:

City

Focus:

Urban

Region:

Southwest

Standards :

Establish a balanced set of goals and indicators for all children, youth and young adults

Define supports that the full community must provide

Create a big picture, goal-oriented action plan

Define common terms and communicate core messages

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Putting Human Needs on the National Radar Screen

Friday, March 16, 2012

Short Description:

The National Human Services Assembly produced a brief, Putting Human Needs on the National Radar Screen, on messaging and collaborative action for nonprofit human service and community development organizations. The brief suggests language and new narratives about the collective contributions of nonprofits. Use this as a resource to infuse new ideas and language into your community’s collective actions.

Audience Sector:

Non‐profit/Foundation

Scope:

National

Standards :

Define common terms and communicate core messages

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Tools for Communicating Your Core Messages

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Introduction to the Ready by 21 Strategies

Specifically, Ready by 21 helps leaders build broader partnerships, set bigger goals, collect and use better data, and take bolder actions. This webinar will guide participants through the essential components of Ready by 21 – the rationale behind Ready by 21, tools and services available to communities and leaders, and the Ready by 21 National Partnership, an unprecedented coalition of organizations representing the government, education, non-profit, business, research and philanthropy sectors.

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Establishing a Balanced Set of Goals: Guiding the Way

Participants were introduced to activities for building agreement and heard about potential indicators for goals across developmental years and the range of outcomes, as developed by the Forum and Child Trends.

Presenters: Suzanne Hershey, Senior Fellow, the Forum for Youth Investment and former Facilitator of the Ready by 21 initiative, Austin, Tex.

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Bigger Goals Toolkit

When leaders band together to improve supports for young people, they hold enormous collective power – to do what? What, exactly, do they want to achieve? Now is the time to establish a common, action-oriented vision: A vision that conveys compelling goals and indicators for all children and youth; a vision that gets everyone going in the same direction.

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