This project will provide permaculture practitioners with practical, engaging ways to communicate their impact.

We will produce an action-learning challenge for Colab members, in which they will use storytelling, visual tools, and real-world actions to communicate their outcomes.

Our aim is to empower projects to secure funding, partnerships, and greater recognition—amplifying permaculture’s global impact.

Our objectives are to:

1. Develop a gamified action-learning challenge to help permaculture practitioners improve how they communicate the outcomes and impact of their work. (Specific)

2. Create 4-5 interactive chapters (slideshow format) with practical challenges for participants to complete. (Measurable)

3. Use existing knowledge from the Permaculture Impact project and networks to co-create a lightweight, engaging format. (Achievable)

4. Strengthen the ability of permaculture projects to tell their story, secure support, and amplify their impact. (Relevant)

5. Release the first challenge within 4 months, with the full sequence completed within 6 months. (Time-bound)

Expected Outputs

We will produce 4 or 5 interactive challenges around communicating your project’s impact that are offered to CoLab members over a period of several weeks. People are invited to complete their challenges and share with the CoLab in the new #communicate-your-impact channel.

Intended Outcomes

Our intention is to generate interest and excitement about communicating and celebrating our successes and achievements as permaculture projects.

After participating in our challenges, participants will be able to use practical and engaging ways to communicate their impact.
Our aim is to empower projects to secure funding, partnerships, and greater recognition—amplifying permaculture’s global impact.

This project will strengthen the ability of permaculture projects to tell their story, secure support, and amplify their impact.
Peer exchange of experiences, and learning within the CoLab.
The outputs of this project will remain available to future audiences as the materials will be available via Slack and/or perma.earth.

Communicate Your Impact Challenge

Objectives

2. Review different approaches taken to the above list and evaluate pros/cons (by end April)

3. Define needs of a new glossary system based on learnings, include the consideration of a community contributed maintenance model (by end May)

4. Design new glossary system (by end of June)

5. Begin collecting terms and definitions from networks, in part from volunteers, in part by aggregating data already collected with permissions (July to end of September)

6. Build new glossary system (July to end of September)

7. Publish and promote glossary across networks in CoLab Slack, website, newsletter & ask others to share and start using it (September)

8. Strategy for continued stewardship (September)

Objectives

April 2023

1. Survey:

1. 1. During the 2 months survey we gather information about already existing material online in the form of infographics, articles, documents, professional services and projects in favour of using the NBS mentioned above and document the resources found in a NextCloud folder and spreadsheet with links.
   2. During this stage we also search for legislation and list interesting resources or research papers mentioning such legislation in a spreadsheet and NextCloud folder.
2. Analysis: During this 2 months’ phase we go through the materials found and identify the top 3 case studies, the top 3 legal frameworks to work within and the top 3 habits to adopt for optimal reuse of your domestic waste waters
3. Design: In the last phase of again 2 months we will edit the data and the raw material, and pour it into an informative, professional looking, educational slideshow presentation that can be shared online.

1/ Database of Resources (legislation in different languages, case studies, forums, information, books, training and more) – (hoping this link works as a collaborative document for anyone visiting the project webpage)

2/ Presentation of findings, as per objectives – 3 legal frameworks in the spotlight (EU in the end), 3 case studies, 3 top recommendations for the home

Objectives

April 2023

By the end of October 2023 we will have
1. A way for people to capture electronically stories of the origins and inspirations of permaculture.
2. A process in place to verify the content
3. A way in which to share for free verified content to the public
4. Run a session for CoLab to explain how people can add content and how to use the content
5. Run a session for Permaculture Association Britain’s Educators CoP to explain how they can add content and how to use the content
6. Deliver a session on this work at the UK Permaculture convergence in September

Updated aims due to lack of funding through the Emergent Festival –

The amount allocated means we have budget for 24 hours of work, hence the first 3 parts of the project
8 – 8 – Look at what data we want to capture
8 – 16 – Create a structure to hold the data in a meaningful and flexible way (normalisation)
8 – 24 – Create a way for people to enter the initial sample content.

To complete the project we will apply for further funding from the CoLab Diversity pot.
For any shortfall, we will do crowdfunding to the general permaculture people worldwide.
We are confident we will achieve this, so this initial amount is a great way to get us up and running.

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