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A 3-day immersive conference custom-designed for social impact organisations to leverage the power of communications to achieve their annual targets and goals.
Strengthen your connection with funders, partners, & govt reps.
Submarine is a unique comms-focussed bootcamp targeted towards strengthening your brand presence, fundraising & partnership efforts, program delivery and organisational team culture. The bootcamp is structured to be a highly collaborative experience packed with workshops, brainstorms and group critique spaces. Our sessions are curated to give you a 360 degree understanding of all aspects of communications, from research, to content writing, to design, to conversion & outreach strategies.
Agenda
This session will give you a comprehensive run down of all materials and assets you need to elevate your organisation’s brand experience across stakeholders. You will learn about why and how to build each of the materials with details about timelines and resources needed to invest. The checklist will help you feel confident and clear about how to devleop your org’s starter kit customised for its annual goals.
The starter kit to strengthen your brand communications for fundraising and expansion.
SESSION 1
This session addresses the need for and power of a strong communications strategy. You will engage in a step-by-step process on how to build a strategy for your organisation, how to monitor it, and how to iterate on it as the year progresses. The session includes tips on how to get all departments in the organisations involved and contribute to your strategy.
Structuring a comprehensive annual communications strategy that adapts to your org goals
SESSION 2
Your pitch is your brand narrative. It acts as the core nucleus of your communication efforts. Everything you create needs a strong foundational narrative. The session will help you learn how build a powerful brand/program narrative, and customise it for varied usages and stakeholders. You will leave this session with a framework that you can confidently use and that can adapt to your org requirements.
Customising your narrative pitch for different scenarios and stakeholder
SESSION 3
Sometimes, the hardest part of the work is the actual "building" process. This session will provide a framework to use to build your materials from start to finish. In addition, we will deep dive into the fundamentals of design. By the end of the workshops you should feel more in control of the process and confident to deliver top quality creatives within set deadlines. The process will help you manage time, manage expectations with external collaborators in the creative process, and keep you on track to achieving your targets.
Demystifying the creative implementation process
SESSION 4
Qualitative impact plays a critical role in engaging with external stakeholders like funders and potential partners. This session will take you through the specific role that videos, photos, stories, qualitative information play in creating a level of understanding, empathy and urgency in the work that your organisation does. You will get guidelines on how to collect qualitative data, and an execution plan on how to put it together to present to your stakeholders.
A simplified execution plan to document and showcase outcomes and impact (qualitative)
SESSION 5
Getting the right resources is critical in achieving your communication goals. We will recommend the most impactful and cost-effective ways to achieve your targeted org goals. This could range from outsourcing a large part of your comms to building a full-suite robust in-house communications team. We will help you plan for and source the right mix so that you can get started with your newly designed strategy!
The foundation of constructing an in-house communications team for the future
SESSION 6
Note: The current agenda listed on the website reflects the exact line up for our Bengaluru Submarine Conference in August '24. We may be making minor adjustments to enhance the experience of the bootcamp for the Bengaluru Conference in 2025.
09.30am–10.00am: Meet & Greet
10.00am–10.45am: Opening + Intro
10.45am–11.15am: Session 1
11.15am–11.30am: Break
11.30am–12.15pm: Workshop
12.15pm–12.45pm: Reflections
12.45pm–02.00pm: Lunch
02.00pm–02.45pm: Session 2
02.45pm–03.30pm: Workshop
03.30pm–03.45pm: Break
03.45pm–04.15pm: Q&A
04.15pm–04.30pm: Recap + Wrap
Wednesday
09.30am–10.00am: Recap & Intro to Day 2
10.00am–10.30am: Session 3 (Part 1)
10.30am–11.30am: Workshop
11.30am–11.45pm: Break
11.45am–12.00pm: Session 3 (Part 2)
12.00pm–12.30pm: Workshop
12.30pm–12.45pm: Reflections + Summary
12.45pm–02.00pm: Lunch
02.00pm–03.15pm: Workshop
03.15pm–03.30pm: Break
03.30pm–04.00pm: Session 4
04.00pm–04.15pm: Reflections + Wrap
Thursday
09.30am–10.00am: Recap & Intro to Day 3
10.00am–10.45am: Session 5
10.45am–11.15am: Planning Time + Q&A
11.15am–11.30am: Break
11.30am–12.00pm: Session 6
12.00pm–12.30pm: Q&A
12.30pm–12.45pm: Reflections
12.45pm–02.00pm: Lunch
02.00pm–02.45pm: Brand Introspection Exercise
02.45pm–03.15pm: 3-day recap + What's Next
03.15pm–03.30pm: Closing + Wrap
Friday
We will focus on giving you simple processes, easy-to-implement action plan to get you started on your own. These tools will help your team craft a more powerful brand story, know how to customise pitches for various stakeholders, create stronger materials, and streamline the way your org communicates.
Our ultimate goal with the bootcamp is to build capacity in you (and in-turn, your org) to effectively integrate stronger communication and design practices into organisation’s workflow across departments.
Leave with confidence and a clear action plan
Application Details
Where?
Bangalore International Centre,
Bengaluru
When?
April 9–10–11
(Wed-Thu-Fri)
Early Bird Application
Deadline: January 17, 2025
Fee: INR 15,750 + GST
General Application
Deadline: February 28, 2025
Fee: INR 19,750 + GST
Note: We've limited the conference to 25 seats
For questions please write to mail@studiosubu.com
Submarine is designed to fit the needs of NGOs of all sizes, and experience levels. Whether you have a bootstrapped 4-person team, or larger multi-city team, the processes and frameworks is flexible to adopt. To maximise learnings from the bootcamp we recommend having a leadership-level member from your org to attend it. In the past we have had CEOs, Founders, Fundraising Heads, and communications managers part-take in our bootcamps.
Who is the conference for?
The fee includes access to all 3-days of sessions, workshops and lifetime access to resources/materials shared during the conference. It also includes lunches & snack for day 1, 2, 3 and all-day refreshments during the conference.
What does the fee cover?
Click on the registration form to register for the conference. We will then send you an email with the payment link. Your seat at the conference will be reserved once you have made the payment. If you have any questions, please email us at:
mail@studiosubu.com
What's the application process?
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Investing in comms can be a gamechanger for your organisation
Having a strong communication and design practice is the foundation for building high impact solutions, especially in the social impact space. It is critical for our market to see them beyond the conventional, demarcated roles/functions in a “comms team”.It plays a critical role in almost all areas of an organisation’s work.
It makes or breaks your fundraising efforts, the team culture, and influences the success of your program’s impact on ground to a large extent. It helps you create experiences that are more immersive, articulate, cohesive. Investing in it allows you to build a deeper and more meaningful connection with your stakeholders, your internal teams and your end users.
Feeling the love from our past participants
iTeach Schools
Soumya Jain, CEO
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[It] gave us an exhaustive set of tools that one could customise based on the context they are communicating in. I believe the efficiency it's going to bring in my team’s, as well as my own functioning, is going to be strong.
Sanjhi Shikhya
Kanwaraj Singh, Communications Manager