By Joy Portella, Minerva Strategies – This year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos offered up much of its standard fare: private jets, top-tier corporate and political leaders, celebrities, heady speeches, and bold proclamations. But this year’s gathering had an undercurrent of anxiety. It wasn’t a 2009-style panic about global financial…
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Joy Portella Minerva Strategies’ President, Joy Portella, argues that we need better storytelling to capture the complexity of international development. Originally published in The Guardian on April 18, 2014. A despicable villain is a critical element of any successful narrative. Heroes are important, but where would Harry Potter be without Voldemort? Or Batman without the Joker? Heroes aren’t…
Minerva Strategies’ President, Joy Portella, weighs in on the PR blunder behind World Vision’s rapid policy reversal on same-sex marriages. What happened? How could it have been avoided? What can other organizations learn from this mistake? Published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Last week’s about-face by World Vision over the issue of same-sex marriage got attention around…