Communication, design and outreach
Tools and partners for telling the story once you have it.
18 resources
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Canva
Design tool. Canva for Nonprofits gives eligible organizations the premium tier, including its AI design features, free for a team of up to 50
Apply for the nonprofit tier before paying, then build templates your whole team reuses
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Piktochart
Infographics
Turn a results table into an infographic when a funder will not read the report
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Hemingway Editor
Prose clarity
Paste a grant paragraph in and cut until a non-specialist could read it
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BuzzSumo
Content performance research
Find which conservation stories already spread before pitching yours the same way
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HHMI BioInteractive
Free biology teaching media
Take free classroom-ready biology media instead of producing education content yourself
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Skype a Scientist
Scientist and classroom matching
Sign up as the scientist and reach classrooms without building an education program
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Roots & Shoots
Youth program framework
Adopt its framework when you want young people running projects rather than attending events
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Action for Conservation
UK youth engagement
Study its UK model for reaching teenagers who would never come to a nature reserve
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Photographers Without Borders
Storytelling for NGOs
Request ethical storytelling support when you need images but cannot pay a photographer
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iLCP ethical principles
What the International League of Conservation Photographers holds its members to: welfare and conservation before the picture, and honesty about how the picture was made. The companion PDF works through the hard cases one at a time, including baiting, call playback, drone distance, chilling insects and captive animals in a documentary
Adopt it as your own photography policy, and use the PDF to settle field arguments
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Our Better World
Story platform
Pitch a story when you want Asian audiences rather than Western donors
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Only One
Ocean storytelling and action
Use it to reach an ocean-focused audience already primed to act on something
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Mammalz
Nature content platform
Check the platform is still live before planning any content around it
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Hip Hop Science Show
Science communication show
Borrow the format when your audience is young and a lecture will not land
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BuzzHootRoar
SciComm graphics
Copy its one-graphic-per-idea format for explaining a finding on social media
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R Graph Gallery
Chart references for R
Find the chart type you need with the R code already written beside it
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Visualising Data
Data visualization practice
Read it before designing a figure, since most conservation charts fail on the basics
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NANPA ethical field practices
The North American Nature Photography Association's principles for behaving well in the field and disclosing what you did afterwards
Give it to volunteer photographers, especially the part about disclosing what you altered