Imagine a platform where you could find all the necessary, relevant, and relatable information about the humanities, ready for you to use and apply to your own communication goals. This is exactly what the Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) aims to provide with its innovative advocacy Talking Points Toolbox. Currently in draft form, the CHC hopes to begin building this Toolbox within the next year, and we welcome suggestions, partners, researchers, and CHC Associates interested in participating in this project.
What is Talking Points Toolbox?
Talking Points is an advocacy toolbox that will be designed to offer multimodal and vibrant communication materials that are free, easy, and simple to use and adapt. The Toolbox will work with research assistants and partner associations and organizations to amplify and consolidate the advocacy tools already in use, and it will also actively seek and create new material. These resources will be meticulously organized by audience, discipline, and other relevant tags, making it easy to find exactly what you need. (Go to draft proposal for Talking Points Toolbox)
What’s the Purpose of the Toolbox?
The purpose of the Talking Points Toolbox is to make publicly available an organized archive of superior content that is particularly relevant and relatable. This content is crafted to communicate the humanities with clarity, joy, vibrancy, and awe. This Toolbox values quality over quantity, and our goal is to refresh communication about the humanities through the RITE content:
What Will the Toolbox Include?
Currently we envision the Talking Points Toolbox to include five distinct sections that will be populated with high quality materials and reference to materials like podcasts, short videos, blogs, TED talks, Infographics, video games, board games, apps, images, Memes, social media posts, interviews, fact sheets, and more. The five sections are:
- Definitions: Official and Unofficial Definitions and Descriptions
- Disciplines: A closer look at specific Majors.
- HumPop: Awe-inspiring examples of humanities in popular culture
- Myths: Debunking Persistent Stigmas
- Tips & Resources: How to Re-Frame Your Messaging
How Talking Points Can Help You
Are you looking for engaging and relevant material to communicate the value of the humanities to your constituents? Once complete, the CHC’s Talking Points Toolbox will support your needs. By providing access to high-quality, well-organized resources, Talking Points will be able to empower you to make a compelling case for the humanities in a way that resonates with your audience.
Join Us in Building Talking Points Toolbox
With the Talking Points Toolbox we will be able to communicate the Humanities more effectively and inspire others with the richness and diversity of multiple visions and voices.
Wanna help? Here are a few ways you can participate:
- Offer suggestions for the Talking Points Toolbox here.
- Other ways to engage with us at the CHC:
- Participate, now or in the future, in the next phase of the CHC’s development of projects and initiatives. You can become a CHC Associate. To do so, just use this form and we will get in contact with you in the near future.
- If you are a leader working at a Humanities organization and you would like to partner in the development of a discipline-specific Toolbox (or if you wish to become a host organization for CHC’s social media internships), please email the CHC leadership team here.
- CHC’s development of the Talking Points Toolbox and other CHC initatives, please join the CHC Email list.
- And if you want to consider donating or endowing the program in your name to support this effort moving forward, please the CHC leadership team at .