Crafting Your Organization’s Vision, Mission, and Messaging

Creating simple, memorable ways to speak and write consistently about your nonprofit organization’s work can be transformational. Clearly defined and consistently implemented mission and vision statements and messaging platforms are key to ensuring that all points of contact with your organization reinforce the right messages.

In this workshop, Farra Trompeter, Chief Growth Officer of Big Duck, Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Bridget Jackson, Sr. Public Affairs and Communications Advisor of NeighborWorks America, and Yvette Scorse, Communications Director of Byte Back, will review how these messaging elements can be created to more effectively engage your audiences—from local residents to activists to donors.

They’ll also discuss the relationship between brand strategy (positioning and personality) and messaging, provide examples of how other organizations use these tools (i.e. setting your board and staff up to be brand ambassadors), and explore when/how you might evolve your messaging and who you should include when you do it.

Attendees will:

• Evaluate and understand the difference between mission and vision statements
• Gain the tools to draft or update their key messages, boilerplate, and elevator pitch
• Discover the value of having simple, memorable ways to speak and write consistently about their organization

All times are in Eastern Daylight Time