<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><p style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">It's finally the last month of what has been an unforgettable year for so many of us. As we prepare to bid  2020 goodbye and carve out some mental space to take on 2021, we are excited to share what we have in store for the last</font><font color="#4caf50"> </font></span><a href="https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/events/globaldev-communicators-connect?instance_index=20201114T150000Z" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">#Globaldev Communicators Connect</a> <font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">of this year, and we hope you can make it! We will continue to discuss bold storytelling ideas, share our comms dilemmas and lay bare our vulnerabilities, as communicators, readers and movement enablers. Let's reimagine and rewrite </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">communications in the aid and philanthropy sector, together.</span></font></p><p style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This month's special guest is <a href="https://twitter.com/icrabtreecondor?lang=en">Isabel Crabtree-Condor</a>, a knowledge broker at Oxfam will unpack the power of narratives in #globaldev based on her curated conversations with narrative changemakers in different parts of the world (<a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/narrative-power-and-collective-action-conversations-with-people-working-to-chan-621020">volume 1 </a>and <a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/narrative-power-and-collective-action-conversations-with-people-working-to-chan-621085">volume 2</a>). Come with all your narrative related questions. </span></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The details of our third connect are:</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Date: 9 December 2020 (Wednesday)</b></font></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Time: 10 - 11am EST / </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">4 - 5pm CEST / </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-indent:35.4pt">7:30 - 8:30pm IST</span></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><b><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Register here: </font></font></b><a href="https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/events/globaldev-communicators-connect?instance_index=20201214T150000Z">https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/events/globaldev-communicators-connect?instance_index=20201214T150000Z</a> (You will first be prompted to join the Healing Solidarity Collective if you are not already a member.)</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">#GlobalDev Communicators Connect is a monthly meeting in the <a href="https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/feed" target="_blank">Healing Solidarity Collective</a>, co-hosted by</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/authwall?trk=bf&trkInfo=AQFnZUtyXyp3pgAAAXTlJPKw-iQjrB4Z4HkdTCdDoPRgDb8ToIUT5Zk6IBM7Ou_5gXASO6lgkV9yMFwkXi1gbhQWIuYM1ZbKyVqE0KJdF9z9JD_6inJOyelUxp_an1wrmzrDd8E=&originalReferer=&sessionRedirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjenniferlentfer%2F" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jennifer Lentfer</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-your-x-factor-job-seeker-pacers-pandemic-series-4-okitoi-heisig/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0b5394">Joan Okitoi</font></a><font color="#000000">, </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">to support people responsible for external communications AND other those working in programs in international aid and philanthropy to connect to each other and reconnect to the creativity needed for our work. </span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font style="">For this month, as Jennifer is away, we will have</font></span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font style=""> <a href="https://youngfeministfund.org/people/deepa-ranganathan/">Deepa Ranganathan</a> step in and co-host with Joan.</font></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">In case you missed our last conversation with Moky Makura of AfricaNoFilter, you can find it <a href="https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/posts/recording-of-globaldev-communicators-connect-november">here</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br clear="all"></font></font><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-m_-7660921203464089093gmail-m_3936184583589641699gmail-m_2023216834260524196gmail-m_8853309133569703144gmail-m_2772765883584729280gmail-docs-internal-guid-b7aacede-7fff-647c-8500-3dbc982241a8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These monthly meetings are building on the webinar series sponsored by the Global Fund for Community Foundations earlier this year entitled, "</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Changing the narrative: Weaving #ShiftThePower throughout the #Globaldev sector."</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> You can </span><a href="https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/news/dialogue-series-considers-how-communications-strategies-framing-and-tactics-can-support-efforts-to-shiftthepower/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">see/review those online dialogues here</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(84,84,84);font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(84,84,84);font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Where and when can we take more “risks” to ignite/invite change in how our organizations communicate about our work? Let’s invite the uneasy conversations. </font>We can more effectively speak up against and amidst injustices of "poverty porn" and misrepresentation when we can rely on a community to support us.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px"><a href="https://collective.healingsolidarity.org/events/globaldev-communicators-connect?instance_index=20201214T150000Z">Will you join us</a>? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.95px">Warmly,</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0b5394">Joan Okitoi-Heisig</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0b5394">Freelance Communicator/Moderator<br></font><div><font color="#0b5394"><a href="mailto:jokitoi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jokitoi@gmail.com</a>, +41 76 290 69 03 </font></div></div></div></div></div></div>