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Align Your Social Media Strategy with Your Values: A Mission Partners Guide
Most nonprofits are active on social media, but far fewer have a strategy that reflects their values. The WWW Framework offers a clear way to audit your platforms and make sure your presence matches your purpose.
SIDEKICKS UNITE! The Power and Impact of Asset-Based Language
Words are powerful, and the way you craft them can mean the difference between communities feeling disempowered, or becoming the hero of their own story.
How to Approach the Strategic Planning Process Through an Equity Lens
A strategic plan without equity embedded throughout is a non-starter. Here are some tips we've found most helpful when guiding our clients.
The Words Matter
Learn how to build equity in your communications with these 6 inclusive writing and marketing tips from the Mission Partners team.
The Power of Equitable Design (And 3 Tips to Become a More Inclusive Communicator)
Learn how communications and development professionals can use images and graphics to reflect a more diverse and accepting world.
What Bias is Hiding in Your Writing?
There are great benefits in spending more time listening others, and in observing our own individual practices of storytelling and story cutation.
Building Equity and Breaking Bias in Storytelling
Tips to start writing with an equity lens, inspired in part by the findings of Ed Yong and other journalists.
The Trouble With Like-Mindedness
In the spirit of breaking the habit of like-mindedness, here are a couple questions that helped us challenge our way of thinking, and may help you, too.
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