Hello, readers!
Here’s a quick round-up of the most popular posts on our Story + Advocacy blog in 2019. No surprise: stories about advocates and organizations resonated deeply with our readers this year.
We hope you'll have a chance to revisit a story you previously enjoyed or dig deep into one that may have slipped by.
Thanks for reading, musing, inspiring and learning with us in 2019.
Clutter Chronicles: One Woman’s Journey Through Stuff
Shame is a powerful silencer. That’s why Mary sharing her story is so important.
Want to Make a Difference? Don’t Just Tell Your Story.
Being an advocate and sharing your personal stories publicly to create change requires you to embrace your role as a persuasive speaker. Here’s why.
WomenHeart: A Team of Champions twenty years in the Making
In 1998, three women, strangers from different parts of the country, were introduced when they were featured in a magazine article about women and heart disease.
Show Your Stripes: People Living With Myositis Share Their Stories to Raise Awareness
There is a saying that medical students learn: “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.”
Raising Awareness of Homelessness and Housing Equity
In the US, more than half a million individuals are homeless on a typical night.
Yep, we're doing it. Everyone’s weighing in on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — the box office numbers, the armor discourse, the modern-English dialogue debates. So here are three insights from The Odyssey for advocates sharing their stories from lived experience to make a difference in the modern world.
Every time I explain what my internship entailed, it piques people's interest and sparks conversations about important subjects.
Share your stories of JOY IN NATURE during the second annual #LPAEarthStories week!
Silencing voices is the exact opposite of what we and our community are about.
What personal stories do we tell about our connection to the natural world?
—and it’s a great example of “flipping the narrative.”
I thought to myself “this position has to be my next step.”
We are proud to announce LPA’s conversion to a public benefit corporation, weaving our promise to generate positive social impact into our corporate governance.
From book reviews to a return to the basics, here’s what our readers were reading most often on the Story+Advocacy blog.
We believe with all our hearts in the power of stories to create change. But change cannot happen if those stories are not heard.
Tim and John share the stories of how Living Proof Advocacy came to be.
No surprise: stories about advocates and organizations resonated deeply with our readers this year.
Advocacy and nonprofit organizations: How do you know the personal stories you’re telling are really making a difference?
World AIDS Day reminds us that HIV has not gone away.
How do you know your stories are really making a difference?
“We don’t want just some typical speaker training and we don’t just a ‘storytelling workshop,’” she told us. We got it.