Storytelling is a crucial component of grant writing – but capturing the stories of your beneficiaries can often be challenging. In this session, we’ll unpack how to gather stories in a way that protects, respects, and dignifies the story-owner. You’ll gain practical insights and tools to implement trauma-informed storytelling practices as a grant writer.

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Your experiences are the foundation for powerful advocacy, offering lawmakers a blueprint for change. In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn how to tell your story in ways that are emotionally resonant, strategically focused, and aligned with current policy efforts. Through practical frameworks and peer engagement, we’ll help you build a story that empowers—not just informs—and drives action at every level.

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Small group sessions are here for you to learn how to better navigate the platform, ask questions, get guidance into specific scenarios, or get an overview if you're just getting started. At the beginning of the call we encourage participants to share their questions or what you're looking to focus on and you're welcome to stay for the whole session or drop once your needs are met.

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What could you do with $70 billion a year? That’s roughly the annual federal budget for surface transportation.

Join experts on July 29 at 3 p.m. for a webinar covering the latest on challenges, changes and opportunities around the staggering sums spent on a transportation system that struggles to deliver on safety, access, climate and equity. This webinar is designed for funders interested in transportation justice, from the local to the national level, from old hands to newcomers.

Our experts will provide an update on the latest actions of the current Administration, including funding freezes, changing language, disappearing guidance, and threats to subsidies that are roiling the waters for agencies, non-profits, communities and funders.

Then we’ll pivot to a deeper exploration of the landscape and possibilities for the next reauthorization of the surface transportation bill, which will determine how the coming years of billions are spent. While scheduled for 2026, this legislative battle may be delayed but we need to be prepared.

Our speakers will share the latest intel, discuss who is engaging and where they see the biggest opportunities for building stronger and more just communities.

This webinar is hosted by The Funders Network, with co-sponsors Health and Environmental Funders Network, Climate and Energy Funders Group.

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