This sample testimony for a typical budget hearing makes use of several reframing strategies. Instead of relying only on Numbers to make the case—merely offering information about how fat funding will impact nonprofit organizations and their staff, or even by talking about clients who will be harmed—the piece embeds these facts within the Constructing Well-Being Narrative.
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