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How we understand our work shapes what we do next. Here, we explore narrative strategy in practice, from leadership and organizational change to fundraising, marketing, and communications.
We examine the assumptions behind familiar approaches, the possibilities dialogue can reveal, and the role of human judgment as AI changes how we think and work.
A Dialogue with Misty Ryder
Misty Ryder of Concerned Citizens of Ossipee talks about community pride, nonprofit sustainability, and her plans to learn from communities across the country.
What Should a Nonprofit Case for Support Include?
Explore what a nonprofit case for support should include, from community needs and credible evidence to a clear funding request and donor invitation.
When Nonprofit Website Design Becomes Strategic Planning
A website redesign can reveal questions about audiences, programs, and priorities. RPL connects nonprofit website design with the strategic conversations behind it.
Narrative Strategy Shapes Decisions
A clear organizational narrative helps leaders decide what to pursue, what to decline, and how to explain the tradeoffs behind their choices.
A Case for Dialogue
RPL’s Rowan Wilson explores how interviews become dialogue, helping people feel heard and discover the stories behind their work in the age of AI.
Why Campaigns Fail Before the Ask
A case for support can be written in a week. A shared understanding cannot. That gap is where campaigns quietly fail.
Why Redesigns Cannot Fix Messaging
An organization paints the walls again and again. The crack was never in the paint. Narrative clarity has to come before design.
Your Strategic Plan Is Not Your Strategy
A plan records what an organization decided. Strategy explains why those decisions cohere, and it has to survive contact with a Tuesday afternoon.
The Hidden Cost of Narrative Drift
Every organization tells its story five ways a day. When the versions drift apart, the cost is quiet, and rarely appears on any budget line.