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Over the summer, Charitable Words Scholars collaborated with Community Matters, a Cincinnati nonprofit serving the Lower Price Hill Community. The they produced a video and crowfunding campaign to help Community Matters bring a community-based laundromat to the neighborhood to provide access to safe, affordable local laundry to serve 600 families – 90 percent of its […]
Elissa Yancey, vice-chair of The Charitable Words board and volunteer advisor, was awarded a six-month long fellowship with Images and Voices of Hope, a Florida-based nonprofit that focuses on storytelling in the form of “Restorative Narratives – a term IVOH coined to describe a genre of stories that show how people and communities are learning to rebuild […]
Charitable Words has connected more than 30 nonprofits with 70 students and recent graduates and hundreds of hours of pro bono engagement by our network of volunteer advisors. Their impact has been evident. Yet to be measured: The lifelong impact of purposeful scholarship, internship and special assignment experiences on their personal growth, and how much they […]
When Cincinnati Enquirer business reporter Sydney Murray called and said she wanted to do a story about Charitable Words, it seemed right to invite one of our nonprofit partners to join the interview. Wordplay Cincy’s executive director Libby Hunter seemed to be a good fit to talk about the video documentary being produced by Charitable […]
Charitable Words Scholar Lindsey Rudd and volunteer advisor Stacy Sims have collaborated on a documentary video about connecting homeless veterans in Cincinnati with “mindfulness and meditation” practices as therapies for addiction recovery, anxiety and pain. It sounds like an unlikely alliance – Stacy Sims, a novelist, playwright and Pilates educator and a roomful of streetwise […]
Charitable Words Scholars from around the state and across the river will bring diverse interests, experiences and skill sets to our nonprofit partners in Greater Cincinnati this summer. Their jobs will be to help nonprofits, often with scarce resources for marketing and communications, better their impact and best tell their stories. The Charitable Words Scholars […]
Community Matters is a new nonprofit stemming off Lower Price Hill Community School, with a mission “to create opportunities with our communities that promote a more thriving and just city.” Charitable Words Scholars will assist Community Matters raise awareness and funding for a “Washing Well” worker-operated cooperative laundry. Photo: Cincinnati Enquirer ‘Audience’ database will be […]
As Charitable Words enters its third year, we are not about to change our name. In 2012, our mission was to connect nonprofits and student interns and volunteer advisors to craft “Good Stories, Told Well.” The aim was to help nonprofits — often understaffed and short on marketing and communications resources — get their messages […]
A Charitable Words Scholars team of videographers from Northern Kentucky University has produced a superb trailer for an upcoming documentary about the “Louder Than A Bomb” youth poetry festival. The NKU College of Informatics student videographers have been immersed in the project since October, hearing the words and seeing the progress of the student poets as […]
Charitable Words Scholars are on Spring 2015 assignments with a variety of nonprofits doing important work in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Here’s a shout-out to the scholars, advisors and sponsors engaged in “learning and lending a hand” to help nonprofits “better their impact and best tell their stories.” Charitable Words Scholars: Here are projects […]