How to be ethical and raise money using Contributor Centred Storytelling
This workshop is for anyone who has been engaging with questions concerning the ethics of storytelling in our sector and who wants to deepen their knowledge as well as discover practical steps that they can take within their own organisation. The session will use original research, real life case studies, and story analysis to help you understand how to enact power sharing and partnership working when gathering stories and consider the short- and long-term impacts of our representations.
During the session, you will explore how a donor’s lived experiences mean that everyone reads stories individually and how that reading drives their choice to support our cause (or not). You will learn about Contributor Centred Storytelling, an approach that focuses on building partnerships between charity staff and the people they support, based on their professional experienced and lived experiences respectively. You will learn from both the pioneer of the approach and from the firsthand experience of an organisation trialling it, including the challenges, internal discussions, and practical steps involved. You will leave with a handout of suggested actions and next steps to take away and trial in your own organisation.
Interested in a deep dive into this same topic? Ethical storytelling is also being covered as a masterclass.
Who is it for?
Fundraising staff working to engage donors, particularly those focused on individual giving; communications and digital staff engaged in donor experience; anyone who wants to learn more about ethical storytelling techniques and tactics.
Learning outcomes
- Learn why Contributor Centred Storytelling makes for a more engaging donor experience and a more ethical approach
- Find out how to use information about how contributors are impacted in story gathering processes to run these processes more responsibly in your own work
- Name short- and long-term tactics you can use to implement Contributor Centred Storytelling in your organisation
- Inspire and inform your colleagues by sharing information about contributor and donor responses to stories shared by our sector