Practitioner Resources
The ethical storytelling resource landscape.
Publicly available resources generally originate from:
Practitioners who share their own organization’s policies and principles
Development organizations and funders who produce research on practices currently in use
Academics who research the use of stories
Without a clear authority on the practice — such as a professional association — the current strategy for most organizations appears to be surveying others’ practices to inform the development of their own.
Policies & Practices
Self-published by practitioners
Oxfam
Ethical Content Guidelines
Photographers Without Borders
Code of Ethics
SOS Children’s Villages
Ethical Storytelling Guidelines
Voice of Witness
VOW’s Ethical Storytelling Principles
VOW’s Trauma-Informed Storytelling Practices
Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling
Broke Project
Self-care for Storytellers (or Your Story Is Yours)
Define American
The Roadmap to Resilience for Undocumented Storytelling
Ethical Stori by Paul Ekuru
D.I.G.N.I.T.Y Test; A Framework for Non-Profit Ethical Storytelling
Immigrants Rising
Storytellers Bill of Rights
No Lip Service
Ethical Story-Modeling™
Research + Resources
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