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Reframing Sexual Violence: From #MeToo to Time’s Up

In the shift from #MeToo to Time’s Up, movement leaders are strategically framing sexual violence as a social and cultural problem, rather than an individual problem. Doing so helps people think...

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Framing for Social Change

How we frame social issues profoundly influences our understanding of them, and how we think and talk about solutions.

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You Say You Want a Revolution? How We Might Think about Guns and Social Movements

What are the key ingredients that those building today’s movements should consider as they go about the hard work of mobilization? Drawing on framing and social movement literatures, FrameWorks...

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Broadening Understandings of Oral Health

The FrameWorks Institute released a new communications toolkit to help advocates broaden public understanding of oral health in America.

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New Studies Identify Challenges in Advocating for a Safer Health Care System

The FrameWorks Institute released two new reports designed to help advocates make a stronger case for a safer health care system.

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What’s Plasticity Got to Do with It? Framing the Need for Children’s Programs

Children’s advocates have been working hard to build public and political will to enhance funding for programs that support early childhood development. But these advocates have faced a major...

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Looking back on 2017

This handy, clickable chart compiles all the framing studies and toolkits that FrameWorks published in the past year.

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New Article Explores Public Thinking about Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol

This article offers recommendations advocates can use to make a stronger case for policies and programs to prevent and address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

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Reframing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Studying Culture to Identify Communication Challenges and Opportunities

How does the public think about prenatal exposure to alcohol, and what are the implications of the public’s deep-seated beliefs about this issue for advocates working to address fetal alcohol...

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Framing Stories for Change

Stories have remarkable power to drive social change—but some stories are more powerful than others. In this feature article in Change Agent, the journal of the Communications Network,...

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Responsibility and Obligation

How can activating people’s senses of responsibility and obligation move social issues forward, and is one more effective than the other? FrameWorks’ CEO Nat Kendall-Taylor explores this...

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Going Beyond Resonance

Today’s communications professionals prize resonance as a sign that their messages are “working,” but sometimes resonance backfires. FrameWorks CEO Nat Kendall-Taylor explains why and what...