EQUALSHOT

strengthening the voice of the nonprofit community

It’s been nearly a decade since Kerry Kennedy and Eddie Adams released their coffee table book “Speak Truth to Power.” Fifty essays about human rights defenders and the torture and harassment they have endured does not seem like a likely topic for a book you’d want anywhere near your coffee table. But there are several reasons why you may want to go out and buy it (or at least check it out of the library)...

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When EqualShot launched in 2002, our first assignment was to produce a video about world hunger for the humanitarian aid organization Action Against Hunger (AAH). The video was meant to draw in and educate donors, and I was looking for someone with star power to narrate.

Frank McCourt had recently been awarded AAH’s annual Humanitarian Award, and I was nominated to call him and ask if he would participate in our video. He agreed without a moment’s hesitation.

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The New York Times took a very creative step this week in commemorating the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. It’s a good lesson for all communicators in how to bring events of grand proportions down to a personal, meaningful level.

“Readers’ Moon Memories” is a slide show of 41 NYT readers’ photographs and a quote about what they were doing when astronauts first walked on the moon.

I first learned about it when my friend Deb sent me an e-mail excitedly announcing that her dad’s 1969 photo (pictured right) of her and her mom was front and center on the NYT site:

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