You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou We hope that the exercises here have not only given you the tools and […]
Category Archives: Toolkit 3 – Impact Measurement as a Gift to Leaders
Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say. Steven Levitt Chidi was taking some photos for one of her donors when Nicole, a young woman who had started to volunteer, asked, “will we put these on Facebook and Instagram?”. Chidi confessed that the girls’ club didn’t have […]
Chidi applied for money for the youth club from a UK charity. On the application form it said “website”. Chidi didn’t have one so she left out that part. The charity wrote back saying that as she didn’t have a website they wouldn’t be taking her application forward. The next week another friend of a […]
What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind Our goal is to communicate your youth club’s message through a young woman’s story. Here are some tips that may help you during the filmmaking process to make your video more impactful. Remember that […]
Chidi knew that her funders in the USA wanted a video of her youth club. She had a friend working in Nollywood, so knew it wasn’t as simple as sitting down with one of the youth club girls and filming her. Her friend had spent a weekend making a 3-minute-long film! Where do you start […]
Chidi’s donors want photos of the project. She was initially worried as she didn’t have a camera, until someone reminded her that she had one on her phone! She wanted the project to seem professional and remembered the photos from her graduation. She got the girls to make sure they looked their best, and photographed […]
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one’s purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one’s self. Coretta Scott King The answers we get to the questions we have asked give us fragments, parts of a jigsaw puzzle. It’s always best if people can […]
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller Sometimes funders request case studies – stories told in a way that details the situation […]
One of Chidi’s funders came for a visit. Chidi hadn’t expected it, but she was excited. If they were willing to spend extra time at her project, perhaps they were interested in giving more money. When they visited, they asked to see the evaluation forms that Chidi had spoken about. Luckily, she had everything stored […]
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau In the previous section, we looked at how we ask wise questions to help young women tell us authentic stories. Here, we explore how we can give them the chance to […]