July 2024

"Oh, thank goodness. It's ‘CREATE HOPE,’ not ‘BRING HOPE,’” I sighed with relief as the shuttle pulled into Carthage College last …

June 2024

I’m a talker. To horror of family and friends, I’m the type of person who will chat the entirety of a cross-country flight if you’re up …

May 2024

(Part III) Both the first and second parts of my answer to a webinar participant’s question about responding productively belied my …

May 2024

(Part II) A participant in our webinar about taking a direct, deliberate, and depolarizing approach to controversial topics asked a …

May 2024

A participant in our webinar about taking a direct, deliberate, and depolarizing approach to controversial topics asked a powerful …

May 2024

Every now and then, a comic strip comes along that is both hilarious and humbling. As someone who has felt trampled by a herd of “shoulds” …

April 2024

At its core, advocacy communications is about ensuring a message reaches people and moves them to take action. Unlike marketing or …

April 2024

How quaint to look back to the early days of developments like the fax machine, email, and smart phones when people sincerely thought, …

March 2024

When I entered the world of documentary filmmaking, I quickly learned that nearly everyone underestimates the cost of the craft. It’s …

March 2024

In my first post about the Good-Better-Best approach, I focused on prioritizing time, talent, and funding at mission-driven …

March 2024

Just over a year ago, Judy Woodruff began a series called America at a Crossroads that “examine[s] the many differences fracturing the …

February 2024

I can still hear the combination of frustration and resignation as he sighed, “Sometimes they treat us like McDonalds.”

“He” was the …

In 2024, Stories Change Power is hosting a free webinar series to support more people than our small-by-design cohorts can serve, all with a goal of …

February 2024

What’s a problem that you deeply want to solve?

Have you ever thought that if you could just get other people to understand the scale …

January 2024

I'm the first to admit I'm a word nerd. I geek out over words that capture particular feelings and sentiments and love to know the …

December 2023

If you're like most people, you know the feeling of arriving home and not remembering driving there, or walking your usual route to …

December 2023

You've likely heard the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility." Fans of Spiderman may already know the adage was …

December 2023

We can agree that part of being professional means being competent in your field, yes? But riddle me this: if you don’t know what you …

December 2023

Candidly, we wrote about this value out of order.

You'll find what motivated our focus on Radical Candor in our October 2023 post.

(Use…

December 2023

Dominos? Links in a chain? Boats that rise? Passing relay batons?

These were just a few of the analogies bantered about recently as I …

December 2023

After decency, our second core value is inclusion. Inclusion flows naturally from decency -- after all, if everyone has inherent …

November 2023

In the current political climate, the word "radical" may feel divisive. In fact, the word's definition reveals the opposite is true in …

November 2023

While the weather wasn’t cold enough to sport my orange and blue hoodie, I nevertheless felt like an honorary Gator a few weeks ago at …

November 2023

Our founder, Piper Hendricks, recently sat down with Chezuba Talks to discuss our professional development programming, including: 

th…

October 2023

I am a word nerd. I love cryptoquotes, word jumbles, and learning big words I’ll never use like “floccinaucinihilipilification.” 

And …

October 2023

After graduating from college, I set off for Washington, DC with new hopes and old clothes… very old clothes.

A neighbor who had been …

June 9, 2023

First I wanted to be a veterinarian, but by 11 I’d landed on marine biologist in order to protect baby harp seals. That was before an …

Summer 2023

Nearly one year ago, I sipped coffee on the back porch of a cottage overlooking a pond as the owner explained why she had taken …