Prepared for the Bonner Fall Directors Meeting by Bonner Foundation staff. Through an interactive all-group session, staff will have a chance to share and learn from a variety of ways in which campuses have captured and told their stories. This includes in formats like center annual reports, student and alumni profiles, issue-oriented project reports, community forums, videos, and more. We’ll also wrestle with how we can shift this narrative to focus even more strongly on amplifying the impacts we have on student success, learning, and community capacity.

1. Sharing
Your Story

2. To Whom?
Campus
Stakeholders
Community
Stakeholders

3. Institutions
Students
& Alumni
Partners
Communities
Funders
Policy Makers
Campus and Community Stakeholders
To Whom?
Senior Leaders Faculty

4. Why? … Recognition
Awards and Recognition: The
institution clearly recognizes the contributions
and achievements of students and community
members involved in service and civic
engagement, for example through awards and
other recognition initiatives.

5. Why?…Visibility
Public Relations and Visibility: The
college/university has a strong public
relations presence in which community
service and civic engagement is visible. For
example, the service and civic engagement
center and Bonner Program can be easily
found on the website. These efforts receive
coverage in major campus publications.

6. Why?…Mission
Supportive Institutional Culture: community
service and civic engagement are central and defining
features of the institution’s approach to providing a
developmental and educational experience for
students and for fulfilling its broader mission.

7. Why?…Impact
Community Capacity Building and
Impact: Clear mechanisms are in place for
defining, tracking, and reporting outcomes for
partners or community impact. These include the
use of capacity build metrics and tools, which are
used both to gauge and guide positions and
projects and to collect accomplishments.

8. How?
Newsletters and General Publications
Student and Alumni Profiles
Special Events
Websites and Campus Communications
Annual Reports and Strategic Plans
Community Impact or Comunity-Based
Project Reports
Scholarship and Studies

9. Format
Sharing of Examples (for each
category)
Nuts & Bolts
Opportunity for Questions and
Notetaking
Final Planning and Discussion

10. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. What was it (Title)?
2. Who was it for (Audience)?
3. Who worked on it (Authors)?
4. What does it take (time, $, etc.) to
create (Production)?
5. What was the benefit (Impact)?

11. Newsletters and General
Publications

12. Features
Stories and Photos
Articles
Data and Highlights
Mission Statement, Outcomes,
Goals, Achievements
Letters from Staff and Other
Stakeholders (Vision)

13. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

14. Student and Alumni
Profiles

15. Features
Describe students’ development,
courses, projects, and journeys
Inspiring stories and reflections
Can be written or contributed by
students or alumni themselves
Mark important milestones
Generate positive recognition

16. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

17. Special Events

18. Features
Can be linked with Bonner
Cornerstones (First Year Trip, Second Year
Exchange, International Trips, Capstones, etc.)
Issue-Based Forums or Projects
Community-Based Research
Project Sharing (Food Insecurity Studies, etc.)
Build allies and momentum

19. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

20. Websites

21. Videos

22. Features
Link your Bonner Program and
center with the field (definitions,
scholarship, reports, etc.)
Speak to a several stakeholders
Communicate legitimacy to the
institutional mission
Signal the value for campus and
community

23. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

24. Annual Reports &
Strategic Plans

25. Features
Communicate the relationship of
the Bonner Program and center
to the larger institutional
mission, agenda, and field
Are an opportunity to forge
vision, direction, and buy-in
Best done with involvement of
key constituents

26. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

27. CommunityImpact or
Community-Based Reports

28. Features
Showcases community
perspectives and issues
Highlights scholarly work
Shifts the narrative to projects
and deep engagement
May catalyze additional projects

29. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

30. Scholarship and Studies

31. Features
Can involve Institutional
Research and leverage available
data and evidence
Can involve faculty and students
Can be published!
Grounds your Bonner Program
and center in the field

32. Share in 2-3 minutes
1. Title
2. Audience
3. Authors
4. Production
5. Impact

33. Planning and Reflections
Bonner Scholar Programs - Arthur
and Ari
Bonner Leader Programs -
Jasmine, Kristi, and Rachayita
Newer Bonner Programs (less
than 5 years) - Liz and Bobby

34. Planning and Reflections
Revisit the ways in which your
Bonner Program and Campus
could tell and share its story
Discuss 1-2 projects for this year
and how you can pull them off
Consider how to involve students
and faculty especially

35. Consider
1. Identify which constituents you
most need to reach
2. One Short-Term Project (Easy)
3. One Long-Term Project (may
involve multiple constituents)

36. Sharing
Your Storytelling Plans