Community-led storytelling for Corporate Social Responsibility campaigns: centering communities experiences and maximising impact.

该提案将社区主导的讲故事研究发展为一套企业社会责任运动的咨询服务。该提案所基于的研究重点关注基于艺术的方法和参与式讲故事的巨大潜力，使参与者能够以一种恢复其生活经验的方式激活和代表他们的感知。多年来，私营部门参与了产生和促进社会和环境影响的项目，包括与联合国2030年可持续发展议程有关的项目。公司在企业社会责任方面的投资规模和雄心都在增长，客户的期望也在增长。有证据表明，客户奖励那些被认为具有强大的社会和环境影响的公司，但往往会解雇那些“影响清洗”的公司。研究证实，公司的形象在很大程度上来自其CSR活动。然而，企业社会责任运动往往忽视受益社区的观点，公司失去了展示其干预措施的全面影响的机会。针对这一点，我们的提案提供了基于证据的咨询服务，说明如何让社区参与并建设能力，使社区成员成为讲故事的领导者。这样，社区本身就有能力制作反映其生活经历和对企业社会责任干预措施的反应的内容。我们的服务将为企业提供更好的企业社会责任信息，但也会产生可持续的，道德的和授权的媒体实践。企业社会责任内容的市场格局包括营销机构、内容制作公司和亲自参与计划。营销机构为企业社会责任信息传播制定了行业标准战略，但往往忽视受益者的观点，因为它们的流程很少包括参与方案。内容制作公司通常与营销机构合作，制作精美的内容，从外部的角度来看，往往会框定受益者及其体验，通常会导致同情心的商品化，客户可以很容易地检测到（Golob & Verk 2022）。面对面参与方案通常由非政府组织提供，为受益人参与提供了很好的机会，但往往未能充分利用这种参与的讲故事机会。我们的目的是通过易于访问和共享的咨询服务，以新颖的方式将这些不同的技能结合在一起，从而将我们的内容制作知识与参与和支持受益人自我陈述其经验所需的技能相结合。我们的目标是通过一种机制和工具向企业提供我们的专业知识和经验，使他们能够简单直接地访问，使用和应用。我们的目标是通过咨询服务将我们以艺术为主导的研究商业化。这使公司能够采取和应用我们研究期间开发的方法和实践，以最大限度地发挥其影响力，同时支持受益人的代理和观点。这笔赠款将用于支持一些活动，主要旨在：-更好地了解潜在客户的业务需求;-了解商业模式和首选的市场途径。我们将寻找潜在的早期客户，并与他们开展4次商业知识交流活动，以了解他们的业务需求和对服务的反应。这些活动旨在让我们更好地了解潜在客户的需求和运营要求，并完善我们的服务。我们的目标是使企业能够将弱势群体置于企业社会责任故事讲述的中心，并促进道德参与性媒体实践。

This proposal develops research on community-led storytelling into a set of consultancy services for corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns. The research this proposal builds on focused on the significant potential of arts-based methods and participatory storytelling to enable participants to activate and represent their perceptions in a way that restores agency to their lived experience. For a number of years now, the private sector has become involved in projects that generate and contribute to social and environmental impact, including in relation to the UN 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development. The scale and ambition of companies' investments in corporate social responsibility has grown and so have customers' expectations. Evidence shows that customers reward companies who are perceived to have a strong social and environmental impact, but tend to dismiss companies who are 'impact washing'. Research confirms that the image of a company is in considerable part derived from its CSR activities. However, CSR campaigns tend to neglect the point of view of the beneficiary community and companies miss opportunities to demonstrate the full impact of their interventions. In response to this, our proposal provides evidence-based consultancy services on how to engage communities and build capacity so that community members become storytelling leaders. In this way, the community itself is empowered to produce content that reflects their lived experiences and response to CSR interventions. Our service will offer companies with better CSR messaging, but also generate sustainable, ethical and empowering media practices. The market landscape for CSR content includes marketing agencies, content production companies and in-person engagement programmes. Marketing agencies produce industry standard strategies for CSR messaging, but tend to neglect the point of view of the beneficiaries, since their processes rarely include engagement programmes. Content production companies, often working alongside marketing agencies, produce glossy content, which tends to frame beneficiaries and their experiences from an external point of view, often resulting in a commodification of compassion that customers can easily detect (Golob & Verk 2022). In-person engagement programmes, often delivered by NGOs, offer great opportunities for beneficiary engagement, but too often fail to adequately harness the storytelling opportunities of this engagement. Our intention is to bring together these different skills in novel ways through easy-to access-and-engage-with consultancy services, thereby applying our knowledge of content-production with the skills required to engage and champion beneficiaries in self-representing their experiences. Our aim is to provide our expertise and experience to Corporates through a mechanism and vehicle that makes it simple and straightforward for them to access, use and apply. We aim to commercialise our arts-led research initially through consultancy services. This allows companies to take and apply the methods and practices developed during our research to maximise their impact, whilst championing the agency and point of view of the beneficiaries. The grant will be used to support a number of activities designed primarily to: - Develop a better understanding of potential clients' business needs;- Understand business model and preferred routes to market. We will seek out potential early customers and develop 4 commercial knowledge exchange activities with them to understand their business needs and response to the service. These activities are designed to allow us to increase our understanding of potential clients' needs and operating requirements and to refine our offering.Our aim is to enable companies to bring vulnerable communities at the centre of CSR storytelling and promote ethical participatory media practices.