📅 "Position, Story, Pitch": The Visibility & Storytelling Sprint- Communicating the Value of Civil Society Platforms

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• When:  30 JULY 2026  

• 13:00 - 14:30 UTC (Click here to see your local time) 

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• Interpretation: English | French | Spanish 

How can national and regional civil society platforms communicate their distinctive role and added value — so that members, funders, partners, policymakers, and the public understand their distinctive role and added value as civic and democratic structures? 

National and regional civil society platforms exist to enable collective action, amplify voices, strengthen legitimacy, and create impact that individual organisations cannot achieve alone. Yet communicating this added value is increasingly challenging in a context of declining trust, hostile narratives towards civil society, shrinking civic space, funding pressures, and increased competition for attention and resources. 

This session will support communicators from Forus member platforms to move from describing what their platform does to communicating why their platform matters. 

The focus is practical with participants developing clearer positioning, stronger narratives, and audience-specific messages that demonstrate the unique value of platforms as civic and democratic structures. 

Tangible outcomes for participants 

Each participant leaves with: 

✅ A clearer articulation of their platform’s added value 
✅ Two–three core messages for different audiences 
✅ A tested short pitch they can adapt for communications materials, websites, fundraising, advocacy, or social media 

Connection to the wider Forus learning journey 

This session lays the strategic foundation for a series of addtional practical learning opportunities. Through the Forus Learning Mondays, participants will be able to apply the concepts discussed and turn them into concrete communications outputs tailored to their own contexts, audiences, and objectives with hands-on practical tracks such as: 

• developing visual campaigns  

• improving websites  

• strengthening social media presence  

• creating storytelling formats  

• producing communication materials  

• experimenting with new communication tools  

Learn more about the Forus Communicators' series here which includes:  

1)"Position, Story, Pitch": The Visibility & Storytelling Sprint - Communicating the Value of Civil Society Platforms: focuses on how national platforms position themselves and communicate their distinctive role, impact and added value; defining identity, strategic positioning and narratives 

2)"Spot It, Stop It, Tell It": The Misinformation Response Lab: focuses on how civil society understands and responds to misinformation and harmful narratives; for Forus members wanting to go deep on contested information environments civil society now operates in with trust decline, polarisation, shrinking attention. 

3)"Learn, Exchange, Act": The Peer Strategy Lab - Trust, Visibility, Voice: offers a broader peer exchange across positioning, trust, misinformation, tools and communications capacity, for members interested in Forus ecosystem opportunities around positioning and misinformation.