The facts about foster youth who age out of the United States’ foster care system are sobering: One in four youth who age out of the foster care system will be incarcerated within the first two years after exiting. More than one-fifth will become homeless at some time after age 18. Less than 3 percent [...]
The pressures on all of us to filter stories and visual media shouldn’t mean that we’re filtering it out. At my firm, See Change, Inc., we believe the social sector has as much to gain from becoming expert consumers of stories and visual media as it does from refining impact metrics and establishing performance management systems. Metrics [...]
Visual storytelling is a practice that is at once old and new in our sector. Telling stories and creating images are deeply rooted cultural traditions in human society – some of the oldest manifestations of our values and beliefs. We tell stories because historically – ancestrally – this is how we learned. Stories were passed [...]
Editor’s note: Melanie Moore Kubo is the founder of See Change Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in helping non-profit organizations tell their stories of client progress in visually compelling yet qualitatively sound ways. We are pleased to have Melanie join us on FCP. The current movement to make philanthropy more accountable for lasting social [...]
