CharlesCVF / July 8, 2011 12:00 am
The Creative Activist Toolkit View more presentations from Charles Tsai. The Creative Activist Toolkit is your companion and guide on your journey to create positive change – for yourself and for the planet. It’s packed with the best advice we can possibly give – based on the works of countless creative activists, changemakers and social entrepreneurs. Stand on their shoulders. [...]
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:10 am
CAT008b: Pitch Template – PowerPoint View more presentations from Charles Tsai Use this PowerPoint template to pitch your project to potential funders. The slides take you through a list of essential you need to cover with any funder but allows for extensive customization. Refer to Perfect Your Pitch for instructions on how to use this template.
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:08 am
CAT008a: Pitch Template – Keynote View more presentations from Charles Tsai Use this Keynote template to pitch your project to potential funders. The slides take you through a list of essential you need to cover with any funder but allows for extensive customization. Refer to Perfect Your Pitch for instructions on how to use this template.
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:06 am
CAT007: Perfect Your Pitch View more presentations from Charles Tsai Perfect Your Pitch is a step-by-step guide on how to create a simple but effective presentation that you can show funders. It also includes tips on how to strengthen your overall pitch.
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:05 am
CAT006 – The Tao Of MacGyver View more presentations from Charles Tsai What does MacGyver have to teach us about social innovation? Plenty. For one, he’s a master at improvising solutions – cobbling together something with only the things around him. In other words, he leverages assets. That skill saves his life in pretty much every single episode of the [...]
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:02 am
CAT005: Message With Success View more presentations from Charles Tsai As many social entrepreneurs discover, your story becomes one of the most important assets of your social venture. When you leverage it – when you tell it well to inspire others – you find more assets coming to you. How to message well is the subject of this toolkit, Message [...]
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 1:00 am
CAT004: Make It Count View more presentations from Charles Tsai If social entrepreneurship is about solving society’s problems, then you need to know whether you’re making any difference. The only way to answer that question is to measure outcomes. This toolkit explains the critical difference between “outputs” and “outcomes.” Most social entrepreneurs confuse the two. As a result, they fail [...]
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 12:58 am
CAT003: Glorified Press Releases View more presentations from Charles Tsai Instead of relying on “the media” to tell your story, you should tell it yourself. Create content, not press releases. This toolkit explains different strategies for how to get coverage for something you’re doing.
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 12:56 am
CAT002: Project Profiles View more presentations from Charles Tsai What’s the best way for people to know about what you do? Most projects rely on long-winded mission statements tucked away in their About Us page… which no one reads. Instead, create a short video. This toolkit guides you through the anatomy of a simple project profile video.
Creative Visions / May 24, 2011 12:48 am
CAT001: Root Cause Analysis View more presentations from Charles Tsai An essential first step to developing solutions is to understand the root cause of the problem you’re trying to solve. The simple exercise explained in this toolkit guides you through asking the Five Whys. Once you’ve arrived at a root cause, ask yourself what kind of solution might be needed [...]