The Doc Society's Impact Field Guide database is a collection of tools, organizations, trainings, case studies, templates, funding opportunities, and more to support your efforts to have an impact.
Risk Assessment for Social Film Screening
Freedom Film Network
Risk-assessment tool
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Audience Funnel
Aggregate/Doc Society
You must understand where your audience is to be able to bring them to where you need them to be. How do they feel about your issue? What do they kno…
Topic: Audiences
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Screenings Request Form Template
Peace is Loud
Designed to help facilitate a community screening campaign
Topic: Distribution
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Holding Ourselves Accountable: A Consent Calendar Resource
Peace is Loud
Model for establishing informed, active consent throughout the filmmaking process (available in English and Spanish)
Topic: Participants
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Impact Campaign Budget Example 2: Full campaign
Peace is Loud
Budget template for robust campaign that included screenings, digital outreach, partnership work, and original resources
Topic: Budgets
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Non-Fiction Core Application Project
International Documentary Association
Collaborative effort by grantors who regularly fund documentary projects to standardize application requirements, with the aim of fostering greater a…
Topic: Funding
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Necessary Skills Worksheet
Doc Society
Use this worksheet to identify gaps in necessary skills on the team and how to best utilize team members' skills and talents.
Topic: Team Building
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Campaign Environment Quadrant
Doc Society
Understanding whether an issue is relatively known or unknown and whether there is strong and organised opposition or minimal resistance could inform…
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
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Impact campaign budget template
Impact Social Club
Guidance in developing a campaign budget
Topic: Budgets
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Strategic Plan Worksheet
Doc Society
Use this worksheet to lay out your film's message, goals, the "agents" who can help you achieve them, and more.
Topic: Strategic Planning
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Film Distribution and Impact Budget Template
Peace is Loud
Template is for a full film distribution and impact campaign budget
Topic: Budgets
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Film Campaign Screening Host Survey Sample
Peace is Loud
Help to evaluate community screenings work within an impact campaign
Topic: Distribution
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