Our work with nonprofits and community groups​

Stories connect neighbors and neighbors create community.

VALUE OF PARTNERING WITH STELLAR

Every day, nonprofit professionals listen to incredible stories of need and transformation, whether from a single mother concerned about housing stability or a young adult who becomes the first person in their family to graduate from college. At Stellar, we help amplify these and other important stories.

Through our training programs and event production services, we partner with you to create a storytelling culture at your nonprofit. This will equip your staff, volunteers, and ambassadors with the skills and confidence to educate and inspire others through storytelling. We support your ability to authentically represent diversity throughout your communications platforms and foster more inclusive environments at work and in the broader community.

OUR SERVICES FOR NONPROFITS

  • Professional development workshops and coaching: While many professionals can identify a good story intuitively, making it as compelling as possible is more elusive. Our custom training programs provide participants with the knowledge and skills to use storytelling in various professional settings, whether during a program orientation, campaign rally, or fundraising event. We also provide individual coaching for professionals with specific goals and public workshops.
 
  • Creative advocacy and development events: Many of our professional staff have extensive experience in the nonprofit sector as directors of programs, development, and communications. We love exploring how your nonprofit can use storytelling at events to improve your guests’ experience. Our clients include local nonprofit and national associations.
 
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs: Nonprofits know the importance of creating welcoming and inclusive workplaces and communities. Storytelling is an effective vehicle for furthering this mission and empowering all voices within your organization. Our international team of professionals designs programs that foster meaningful collaborative relationships.

OUR APPROACH

Storytelling is essential for delivering great programming, raising critical funds to sustain your important work, and inspiring the public to support your mission. As a first step, our leadership explores with you how storytelling can best benefit your institution and constituents.

Once clear goals are outlined, we customize our training and events to meet your needs. We have worked with nonprofit professionals who have found our programs valuable in their professional work and equally meaningful in their personal lives. Participants have received invitations to speak at additional forums, earned promotions, and fostered new community relationships. At Stellar, we routinely create or identify opportunities for nonprofit professionals to tell their stories on national media and other events.

“Storytelling is such a critical component for nonprofits. The training provided a great framework for developing stories and reinforced our personal responsibility to share authentic stories of impact.”
A. Dethlefs-Trettin, Chief Community Impact Officer, Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines