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.
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Color Congress
Learning initiative supporting over two dozen nonfiction films by directors of color
Topic: Research
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BIPOC
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Media Impact Project
Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg
Hub for collecting, developing and sharing approaches for measuring the impact of media
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
Research
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Issue Areas
Frameworks
Research on how people think about different social issues
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
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Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work
Center for Media & Social Impact
Map of perceived ethical challenges that documentary filmmakers—directors and producer-directors—in the United States identify in the practice of the…
Topic: Ethics
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Dangerous Documentaries: Reducing Risk when Telling Truth to Power
Center for Media & Social Impact
How to mitigate known risks
Topic: Ethics
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Film intervention increases empathic understanding of formerly incarcerated people and support for criminal justice reform
National Academy of Sciences
Sharing personal narratives can increase connection with highly stigmatized groups
Topic: Narrative Change/Cultural Strategy
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Criminal Justice
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