Skills Boost: Useful communications strategies for LGBTI activists

03.04.2024

On 3 April, 2024, we hosted a Skills Boost session designed for LGBTI activists who want your organisational communications to get more strategic.

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We covered:

What is a communications strategy? (and how is it different from ‘strategic communications’?) What is the point of it?
What is the minimum that any communications strategy should cover, and what is the menu of options if one wants to be a bit more ambitious?
Hearing from two LGBTI organisations who have gone through a communications strategy process recently – and what they learned from their experience. Check the experience of the Newcomers project (Sweden) and Transakcija (Slovenia)!

You might want to check other comms resources by ILGA Europe:

9 Steps to a Good Communications Plan (Hub card):https://hub.ilga-europe.org/communications/9-steps-to-a-good-communications-plan/ know where to start? Reach out to us, we might be able to help! Contact svetlana@ilga-europe.org.
Useful communications for LGBTI-activists: take it to a new level (SkillsBoost recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3U-4KG5xY
to be published Communications Strategies for Small Organisations (a Hub card): https://hub.ilga-europe.org/communications/communications-strategies-for-small-organisations/

Do you struggle with some specific communications challenge, and do not know where to start? Reach out to us, we might be able to help! Contact svetlana@ilga-europe.org

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