Apply Now to Become Pilot Community for Social Impact Campaign

Social Current is seeking applications to become pilot communities for the social impact campaign inspired by the film, UnCharitable. This initiative is being developed in collaboration with the team of filmmakers and social innovators behind the film, including its producer and social impact lead Meredith Blake and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, with the goal of reducing funding constraints and improving the way the social sector applies innovation and creates impact in the U.S. and Canada.

Teams of local organizations are invited to apply to serve as pilot communities for the initiative. Submit applications online by March 31.

The initiative will take place over three to five years, with communities receiving access to research, technical assistance, operations support, marketing and communications support and evaluation. The five pilot communities will work collaboratively to develop, incubate, refine, and ultimately scale innovative strategies that address the most pressing issues faced by the community and more broadly, the nonprofit sector. The campaign will use a community-centered and participatory process that engages diverse groups, listens to their needs, and co-designs solutions that respond to their highest priorities and reflect their lived realities.

Social Current will support the pilot communities by establishing a community steering group and assisting in identifying funding and in-kind resources. Communities will work to design their plans, which will include listening sessions and film screenings to serve as catalysts for their initiatives. Through these activities, each community will explore their most pressing challenges, including those faced by their local nonprofit sector, and identify ways to address those challenges through communications, policy and practice change, and local advocacy.

The strategies developed by the pilot communities will be scaled through the development and implementation of a narrative change communications and media strategy around nonprofit impact; creation of educational resources, tools and curricula; and the development of federal, state, and local policy and advocacy strategy, tools, training, and resources.

For more information about the social impact campaign, watch the recording of our informational webinar, held Feb. 26.

Download a copy of the application questions and apply online by March 31.

Direct questions about the application process to Sarah Beth Lardie, chief development officer at Social Current.