Bridging the Distance: Organizational Storytelling That Builds Trust Across Borders
July 1, 2026
When programs, staff, and leadership are based abroad, earning donor confidence requires more than compelling stories. It requires transparency, cultural understanding, and proof of impact. This webinar will examine how your organization can leverage strategic communications to build donor trust and credibility with U.S. audiences while maintaining authenticity and fostering lasting donor relationships. Register here to join us live.
In this session, you will:
✔️Learn how to draft compelling narratives that bridge geographic and cultural distance, using language, imagery, and proof points that resonate with U.S. donors, even when programs and leadership are based elsewhere.
✔️Discover strategies to avoid common storytelling pitfalls—from savior narratives to abstract impact claims—and instead build authentic credibility without a physical U.S. presence.
✔️Explore how to communicate organizational goals with transparency and nuance, balancing ambitious vision with honest assessments of capacity, context, and data.
✔️Gain practical approaches for discussing both successes and setbacks with donors and boards in ways that build trust rather than damage credibility.
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM BST | 5:00 PM EAT | 6:00 PM GST | 10:00 PM CST
You will hear from:
Moderator: Hope Armanus, Director of Marketing & Communications, Changent; Founder, Conscious Comms Collective
Speaker: Kylie Augustine, Senior Director, Fundraising Content Strategy, ASPCA
Speaker: Sadé Dozan, Vice President of Advancement, Borealis Philanthropy; Founder, Melanate.
Closed captioning with translation will be available. Can’t attend live? Be sure to register to receive the full session recording!
This webinar is free and open to the public, so feel free to share this invitation with others who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you there!
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This webinar is part of the Myriad USA series on Sharing Best Practices in Fundraising, designed to help nonprofit professionals worldwide enhance their fundraising practices and strategies. With Myriad USA, donors can count on a knowledgeable, one-stop shop for all their international giving, regardless of geographic location. We also provide foreign nonprofits with cost-effective solutions to mobilize resources in the United States. Discover our services at myriadusa.org/services/.
Speakers
Named PRWeek’s 2022 Most Purposeful Communicator, Hope Armanus is a strategic communications and narrative-strategy leader with 10 years of experience spanning community healthcare nonprofit (Changent) a Fortune 20 company (Verizon), a global humanitarian nonprofit (International Rescue Committee), the U.S. government (USAID), and a leading social-impact PR firm (Global Health Strategies).
Hope has managed multi-million-dollar campaigns, led executive communications for C-suite leaders, built cross-sector partnerships, shaped public-facing impact narratives, and designed high-profile convenings for philanthropists, policymakers, and corporate leaders.
Her work sits at the intersection of communications, social impact, policy, and community building—translating complex ideas into influence, trust, and meaningful engagement.
Outside of her role at Changent, Hope Armanus founded the Conscious Comms Collective, a private, members-only global community of cause-conscious communications professionals.
Kylie started her career at the ASPCA in 2011. She currently leads the team that creates fundraising and engagement content for member communications, including direct mail, email, SMS, aspca.org, telemarketing and other channels. In addition to development campaigns, Kylie collaborates with teams throughout the organization to amplify other priority initiatives through communications to ASPCA donors — such as corporate partner activations, brand awareness promotions and volunteer/foster/adopter recruitment. Kylie is passionate about communicating the ASPCA’s lifesaving work through emotional storytelling involving animal beneficiaries. Outside of work, Kylie enjoys fostering dogs and exploring NYC since moving back in the fall of 2025.
Sadé Dozan is a philanthropic advisor and culturist, whose work sits at the intersection of wealth, care, culture, and power. She serves as Vice President of Advancement at Borealis Philanthropy, leading organization-wide fundraising and communications strategy during a period of profound sector transition. She is also the Founder of Melanate., a movement infrastructure initiative cultivating leadership, narrative power, and resource fluency among Black women and gender-expansive people working in wealth and philanthropy.