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Rethinking Personal Stories

October 27, 2016

The National Reframing Initiative seeks to build Americans’ understanding of the human service sector and build public will for policy and systems solutions to the challenges it addresses. The FrameWorks Institute’s communications research shows us that using the Building Well-Being Narrative is quite effective in building a more expansive, more accurate view of the human […]

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Taking the Long View

October 13, 2016

As we enter the final weeks of the 2016 election season, we draw your attention to Nonprofit Quarterly’s recent webinar, Reframing Social Issues Before, During, and After an Election: An Essential Guide for 501c(3) Communicators. In this timely presentation, Julie Sweetland, Vice President for Strategy and Innovation at FrameWorks Institute, identifies the dominant narratives in […]

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Pressing the Refresh Button on Reframing

September 29, 2016

The human service sector plays an integral role in creating a vibrant, thriving society. Yet each year we find ourselves having to make the case, all over again, for critical funding and better policies, while competing for limited and insufficient resources, attention, and investment. The power of reframing is that it helps us tell our […]

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The Two-Generation Approach Framework: A Closer Look at State-Level Implementation

September 16, 2016

Building Family Well-Being with State-Level Two-Generation Frameworks The National Human Services Assembly has released “The Two-Generation Approach Framework: A Closer Look at State-Level Implementation” funded by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report explores how three states–Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah–are developing and implementing a Two-Generation (Two-Gen) framework in their human service programs. The Two-Gen approach […]

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Austin Flexes its Reframing Muscles

September 15, 2016

This week, we share the recent reframing efforts of One Voice Central Texas, a coalition of nearly 100 health and human service organizations serving Austin and surrounding counties. In April of this year, Ilsa Flanagan conducted a day-long workshop on reframing human services for members and partners of the coalition. The participants enthusiastically embraced what […]

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