Find out what FrameWorks collaborators have to say about FrameWorks Institute’s impact on their work to elevate the public discourse on social problems:

Please note that Diane Benjamin, who is featured in the clip, is now on staff at FrameWorks Institute

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In this section, you will find news about FrameWorks Institute activities and columns written by FrameWorks staff and collaborators.

• Gilliam Named Dean of Public Affairs at UCLA

• FrameWorks Builds Capacity in Research Staff As Three New Scholars Join Interdisciplinary Team

• Frameworks Speaking Engagements

• Frameworks President Named Visiting Scientist at Harvard University's School of Public Health

• Stanford's Iyengar And Political Communications Lab Bring Experimental Framing Methods Online For Frameworks

• Frameworks Adds New Research Partner to Capture the Power of Storytelling

• Linda Bowen named Fellow, will contribute to projects in the Delta, on Race and Social Determinants of Health

• "Communications for Social Good" (Bales and Gilliam, 2004) provides a comprehensive overview of various communications schools of thought, evaluating their potential for advancing public will on social issues.

  Written for funders, and published by the Foundation Center, this monograph attempts to create a taxonomy of communications thinking with practical examples drawn from dozens of communications campaigns.

• FrameWorks explains framing basics at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Conference on Food Systems. Download videos of FrameWorks President Susan Bales on the seven stages of framing and FrameWorks Senior Fellow Frank Gilliam on what framing is and isn’t, all in the context of reframing food systems.

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  Framing with Frank Gilliam —A detailed explanation of what framing is and isn’t
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  Seven Stages of Frame Works Learning by Susan Bales— Read the Seven Stages of Framing here
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• Award-winning journalist Jane Feinberg joins FrameWorks as Deputy Director for Field Building

• FrameWorks founder looks to journalist Ernie Pyle for framing lessons in this article from the Nonprofit Quarterly

• Lynn Davey joins FrameWorks as National Field Director

• The April issue of American Prospect magazine takes a look at strategic frame analysis and FrameWorks role in advancing it. The article, "Breaking the Frame," describes FrameWorks’ approach to communications research, and how the organization works with non-profit advocates to tell stories in a new way.

• FrameWorks Communications Awards

  The FrameWorks Institute is pleased to announce the first recipients of the FrameWorks Communications Awards, designed to recognize those communications campaigns nationwide that do the best job of advancing public understanding of social problems. Nominations were received from nonprofit and commercial organizations, networks and affiliates, community and national agencies across the country. Each of the winning agencies received a $500 award and a certificate of achievement.

  Three campaigns were judged excellent in their campaign materials and approach by FrameWorks officials and collaborating experts:

  • "What do you want to be labeled as?" — National Crime Prevention Council with the Advertising Council
  • "It's About Time for Kids" — Mideast King County Community Public Health and Safety Network (King County, Washington)
  • "Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies" — Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative

  Congratulations to the award winners, who are also featured in FrameWorks' new CD-Rom for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, "Making Community Connections."

• We are pleased to announce that our colleague and friend, Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Professor of Political Science/Policy Studies and founding director of UCLA's Center for Communications and Community, has accepted the post of Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Partnerships. The appointment will take effect on September 1. In this newly-created position within the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, Professor Gilliam will provide executive academic leadership for "UCLA in L.A," an umbrella for more than 1,100 University-community partnerships throughout Los Angeles County. Working closely with faculty, academic leaders, students, and staff, he will oversee campus-wide efforts to enhance these varied associations and to foster additional relationships.

  Professor Gilliam will develop a new Institute for University Partnerships, which will bridge community needs with UCLA research,teaching, K-12 outreach programs, health services, and cultural activities.

• The FrameWorks Institute has been featured in an article on youth in The Washington Post. To view the article, click here.

• Susan Nall Bales was the guest lecturer at the Yale University's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy Luncheon Series on October 19, 2001. She spoke on "Framing Children's Issues for Public Understanding and Support: Lessons from A Different Research Base."