Course Outline
6. Keep Going (4 min)
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Sharing success stories from recent sites is a great way to show program impact — and raise awareness, funding, and interest for your next cohort of LENA Grow! |
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Follow these tips to help you share your outcomes throughout your community and beyond:
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Share Impact Reports and discuss positive program benefits to keep center director buy-in high. |
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Find your LENA Grow ambassadors. Check with center directors, coaches, and others in your community to see how they can support your program by sharing within their networks. |
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Collect stories and photos from center directors, coaches, and teachers. Use these, along with your ongoing program data, to tell your impact story to the community, stakeholders, funders, and to new sites and teachers you are recruiting. Visit Craft Your Success Story for great ideas, partner examples, tips, and customizable templates to share your success stories and program data. |
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Grow your audience. Consider ways to share your story with a broader audience, such as conference presentations, social media posts, or showcasing your work on your website. |
From the Field
Partners continuously communicate the opportunity to use LENA Grow through their networks using websites, news spots and interviews, and social media posts. Scroll through for some effective examples you can adapt for your program.
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Word of mouth is one of your most powerful tool towards recruitment! Once you have completed a cohort, ask programs that participated to help spread the word and provide you with stories. Visit this LENA Library article to learn more about using stories and social media to promote LENA Grow in your community. |
Put It Into Practice