Ethical Communication Consulting

We support ethical, genuine, and impactful visual storytelling.

The landscape of visual communication and fundraising is rapidly evolving. Discriminatory, stereotypical, and misleading images are increasingly being challenged, while digitalisation and AI demand a renewed commitment to ethical communication and authenticity.

Fairpicture supports nonprofits and impact brands adapting to these changes through consulting services focused on ethical communication and fundraising. Our consulting sessions and workshops are designed to enhance your organisation’s storytelling practices, ensuring you communicate ethically, authentically, and in line with both legal and social standards.

Consulting Services

Frame

Nonprofit communication and impact reporting must effectively engage audiences, manage complexities, and achieve objectives in today's ever-changing environment. Fairpicture has a proven track record of enhancing communication strategies for nonprofits — from small local groups to large international organisations — as well as private-sector entities.

Does your communication align with current debates?

We assist in refining your positioning, optimising your communication efforts, and developing impactful fundraising campaigns that are fully embedded within your organisation’s framework.

Stereotypical and discriminatory or fair and safe? Get a view from the outside and discover blind spots in your visual communication. Involving visual creators from different regional and cultural contexts, we analyse and provide feedback for your communications, campaigns, and visual content. We will advise you on the fair and safe production and use of your image catalogue.

How it works:

  • You send us your pre-existing visual materials.
  • Our consulting team checks them according to the requirements of a fair image.
  • In a short workshop, we discuss strengths and weaknesses of your current imagery according to the Fairpicture standards of a fair image. 
  • You gain knowledge about context, possible effects of your images, and impulses for strengthening your visual communication in ethical terms.

What you get:

  • Short review: How fair are your pictures?
  • 1,5h online workshop

    Price: CHF 900.-

    On demand: In-depth review involving Fairpicture visual creators.

Case Study

Having fair pictures isn’t just ethical. It’s a strategic business decision. Data legislation requires new ways of producing, storing, and using images. Align your visual communication with your organisational values and the demands of the global market. Tailored to your needs, we co-develop your strategy for ethical and safe visual communication.

What you get:

  • Strategy and guideline development, including implementation workshops
  • Process streamlining

Case Study

We would like to communicate differently, but then we can't conduct effective fundraising - we hear this every day. Leveraging decades of fundraising expertise in NGO communication, we not only elevate awareness of ethical considerations in fundraising – spanning from decolonization to community-led storytelling – but also collaboratively implement them alongside you.

With some clients, we have now started to empirically test this question. For example, we send out a traditional mailing and parallel one that meets criteria for ethical communication. Be bold and test your hypotheses with an experienced partner.

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Consulting Case Studies

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Interactive, practice-oriented workshop

Get an insight into the workshops of Fairpicture using the example of the German Agency for Int. Coop. (GIZ)
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Communications Quick Review

Discover an in-depth case study showcasing a fair and critical review of communication practices.
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Visual Communication Guidelines Development

Fairpicture helps you to develop guidelines for your visual communication. Learn more.
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Workshops & Tailored Training

We offer regular workshops for individuals on current topics in ethical visual communication. These interactive, hands-on sessions empower participants to address issues such as stereotypes, ethical fundraising, storytelling, and communication in humanitarian and development contexts.

We also provide internal training tailored to your organisation's specific needs. Whether you want to challenge established thinking patterns, invigorate internal discussions, or acquire new knowledge, our workshops are customised to support your goals. Just get in touch with us.

In recent months, we have covered subjects that deeply resonate with our work, such as decolonisation in visual communication, ethical AI prompting, and ethical storytelling practices. Below is an overview of our current topics — spots are open for booking now.

  • Ethical Fundaising
  • Recognising and Addressing Stereotypes
  • Depicting Poverty with Dignity
  • Ethical Depiction of Children
  • Ethical Use of AI Images

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Fairpicture input at Amnesty International Switzerland, February 2024: Putting on the human rights lens.

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Free Resources

Through our consulting services, we develop tools like the Image Ethics Analyser, the Risk Assessment Tool, and the White Paper on Data Protection — all of which are freely available to the public.

These resources are consistently valuable and widely used.

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Let's have a chat!

Leave us a message or schedule a meeting with someone from our team. Join us in making fairness in photography and ethical storytelling the new normal!

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