Essential Elements for Community Support
If you are lacking community support measured by financial health or any other metric you are missing at least one of these 5 steps.
A compelling story to tell. In other words are you doing good work that is worthy of support.
Recognition of the story. Have you become numb to the powerful stories that your organization creates every day because you have a front row seat that your supporters don’t have?
Ability to tell the story. We become effective storytellers the same way we become good at anything; practice.
People to tell the story to. This could mean your email list is small, your social media following is small, or you just don’t run into enough people that ask you how things are going.
Consistently telling the story. Never stop telling the story. In line at Starbucks. Cold calls. Newsletters. Just never stop telling stories.