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Storytelling

Help WORDS BEATS & LIFE enhance their annual reports, grant applications, and other marketing materials with compelling narratives about their organization’s mission, activities, and achievements.
WORDS BEATS & LIFE
Washington, DC, USA
WORDS BEATS & LIFE
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Posted January 2nd

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What we need
  • A compelling narrative, or set of stories
  • Persuasive copy that can be used in appeals to donors, annual reports, grant applications, and media relations
  • Popular examples: Organization's founding story, a program achievement or milestone, a look back at the past few years, organizational backgrounder, etc.
  • Note: This project is not intended to support your general content planning or marketing but there are several projects in our Marketing & Communications category which are a good fit!
Additional details

We want to tell the story of our work that is not direct service.

What we have in place
  • We currently have catch all brochure, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have website, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $2,397 , allowing us to contribute to interns pay to support this work.

We have a robust story to tell and want to tell it in the simplist ways possiable.

Project plan

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Prep: Information Gathering
  • Volunteer Manager and Professional discuss the objectives of project and key audiences
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with relevant background materials (e.g., annual reports, white papers, brochures, organizational history)
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Milestone 1: Storytelling Framework
  • Professional presents and discusses primary story angle(s) to the Volunteer Manager
  • Volunteer Manager facilitates interviews between Professional and individuals willing to share their story (if applicable)
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Milestone 2: Document Creation
  • Professional shares draft with Volunteer Manager
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with up to two rounds of feedback
3
Milestone 3: Wrap-Up
  • Professional submits final version
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About the org

WORDS BEATS & LIFE
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Mazi A. E. M
Mazi A. E. M.

Executive Director

Our mission

The mission of Words Beats & Life (WBL) is to transform individual lives and communities through Hip-Hop culture in all its forms. As a set of cultural practices and art forms with a global reach, Hip-Hop has demonstrated its power to transform the lives of young people around the world and right here in the nation's capital.

What we do

WBL is an unapologetic advocate for the transformative power of Hip-Hop culture in all its forms, empowering young artists to relentlessly create and refine systems that demonstrate positive change through our individual and collective brilliance. We embrace the sacred nature of our work and our roles as keepers and innovators of our culture. We create arts-based educational experiences that equip youth, arts managers, teaching artists, and scholars to move from theory to practice. We harness the power of the imagination to reshape the lives and communities we serve.

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Shaun is about getting the work done and done well. His voice as a writter is exactly what we needed. Highly recomended.
Mazi A. E. M.
Mazi A. E. M.

Executive Director

Storytelling Project

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