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Getting the Urban into Nature

The benefits of nature go far beyond "simply getting away from it all." In this blog post, FrameWorks founder Susan Nall Bales explains why—and how a science-based communications strategy can...

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How to Persuade the Public to Care About Other People’s Problems

When talking about how to solve social problems, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. FrameWorks CEO Nat Kendall-Taylor explains why--and what this message means for nonprofit...

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Talking about Poverty: How Experts and the Public Understand Poverty in the United Kingdom

This Map the Gaps report compares expert and public views of the causes and consequences of poverty in the United Kingdom and solutions to it.

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Mixing It Up: Reframing Neighborhood Socioeconomic Diversity

This comprehensive MessageMemo synthesizes FrameWorks research about socioeconomic mixing.

Toolkit

Talking Elder Abuse

This toolkit models how to apply the FrameWorks Institute’s evidence-based recommendations to messages and conversations about elder abuse and related issues, in order to build public...

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Climate Change Alliance Highlights New Products

In its quarterly newspaper, the Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance highlighted new products FrameWorks produced with partners. These include a new online course in climate...

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“You Don’t Have to Live Here”: Why Housing Messages Are Backfiring and 10 Things We Can Do About It

Housing is the starting point for life trajectories—often determining who has access to good jobs, good food, safe parks, or effective schools. But this perspective is difficult for the public...

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Why Framing Matters: A Review of the Basics

In this piece in Policy & Practice, the American Public Human Services Association explores the rationale against framing human services as a charity and for framing it as a system of supports...

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Giving and Leading: FrameWorks Institute—A Better Message for Nonprofits

Tara Jackson, president of Arizona Town Hall, explains FrameWorks’ mission, method, and impact on Arizona public television. She also talks about the effectiveness of using evidence-based...

Toolkit

Gaining Momentum

The way Americans currently think about aging creates obstacles to productive practices and policies. How can the field of aging help build a better understanding of aging, ageism, and what it...

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Words That Change Minds

What does it take to find the right frame for an issue? Read all about it in “Words That Change Minds.” This in-depth organizational profile of FrameWorks appeared in the September 2016 issue...

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Early Means Early: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Stakeholder, and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa

This report compares views of early childhood development between experts in the field and members of the public in South Africa.