Funding Your Impact Summit: Ethical Storytelling

Storytelling opportunities can engage donors by explaining a CBO's mission, vision, values, and services. Join the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits for a session by Anita Varma to discuss a set of ethical principles and practices designed to help guide nonprofit organizations towards stronger storytelling. 

Featuring: Anita Varma, Assistant Director, Journalism & Media Ethics, Social Sector Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University; Jessica Paz Cedillos, School of Arts & Culture; Usha Srinavasan, Sangam Arts; Demone Carter, Sacred Heart Community Service.

SPEAKER

Anita Varma, Assistant Director, Journalism & Media Ethics, Social Sector Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Anita Varma is the assistant director for Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Social Sector Ethics. She focuses on the design and implementation of applied ethics projects, conducts research, and facilitates public engagement for both program areas. From 2018-2019, Varma was a program manager at the Markkula Center. Prior to joining the Markkula Center, Varma was a doctoral candidate at Stanford University in the Department of Communication, where she focused on journalism ethics and received her PhD in 2018. Her dissertation (Solidarity in Action: A Case Study of Journalistic Humanizing Techniques in the San Francisco Homeless Project) analyzed the role of solidarity in American journalism using a case study of how and why Bay Area journalists humanize homeless people.