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Social Impact Storytelling with a queer sensibility

Secret Agents works at the intersection of social impact storytelling, strategy and measurement. We craft stories, methodologies and create social impact stories. Our strategies help purpose-driven organizations achieve greater impact through mediums like podcasts and documentaries. Our skills training courses share the results of our work with the social impact community.

 
Featured Podcast

Queer Legends: An oral history Podcast.

Queer Legends is our award-winning series about 2SLGBTQ+ history and fierce activism. Queer Legends won the 2023 Canadian Podcast Award for ‘Outstanding Documentary’ series and is featured by Apple Podcasts.

Get in touch if you need some great content. We can help you.

“If you’re interested in models of how to preserve local queer history, this is a great example.”
— Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette, Asst. Director for Digital Learning, CNDLS at Georgetown University
Create Social Impact Entertainment With Us

Turn your stories and data into social impact stories

 

Secret Agents is always learning and leveraging emerging digital communications tactics. We use data and story-based evidence to communicate barriers to change and help people understand motivators for action. We co-design social impact communications and entertainment, establish key audiences and create podcasts, documentaries and immersive experiences to achieve your social impact goals.

 
Social Impact Strategy & Storytelling

Let's create social impact stories together!

Our work with leading foundations, charities and civil society organizations is in the emerging field of social impact strategy. Our projects are designed to drive innovation and unlock your capacity to do things differently to communicate impact.

We lead social impact communications projects to support achieving your social impact goals.

Secret Agents helps design and conduct social research and development work using mixed methods research, with a focus on how value and patterns can be found in qualitative analysis.

Story-based research helps focus impact.

We develop and produce social impact storytelling with your team.

Using animation, high-end audio & video or emerging digital mediums, we develop interactive story strategies to produce social impact journalism, podcasts and entertainment.

Producing powerful content to drive innovation.

We develop strategies to communicate, scale or transfer knowledge about your innovation. We approach our strategy and impact design work with an intersectional lens, our research is trauma-informed and uses Appreciative Inquiry.

Learn how your data can help write your organization’s social impact story and lead change.

We help model data held within your organization; collect stories and analyze these inputs to create a path towards sustainable social impact.

Data can help guide your stories.

Your work with us helps fund education for under-resourced social purpose organizations.

We are a social enterprise and central to our mission is helping social impact organizations and communicators to learn and connect with others.

Building capacity is central to our mission.

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Our sliding scale fee structure supports the Social Impact community
Our sliding scale fee structure supports the Social Impact community

Secret Agents Sliding Scale

Our mission is to create space where progressive communicators from purpose-driven organizations have the opportunity to come together and learn from each other, regardless of their budgets. Our prices are designed to help reduce financial barriers for folks with different levels of income.

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The Top 5 microphones for NGOs, non-profits and charities
The Top 5 microphones for NGOs, non-profits and charities

Sound for NGOs, non-profits and charities

Every project you’re working on needs good sound. Recording good audio makes you and your content sound amazing and professional. We know that budgets are tight, so here is Secret Agents’ Top 5 microphones for NGOs, non-profits and charities. Whether it’s for Zoom calls, podcasts or national conferences, sound great!

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The (Social) Science of Empowerment and Empathy
The (Social) Science of Empowerment and Empathy

The (Social) Science of Empowerment and Empathy

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We’ve worked on projects with

 

We asked some of the people we’ve worked with to reflect on their projects with us.

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Annelies Tjebbes
Founder Roots & Rivers Consulting
Annelies Tjebbes
Founder Roots & Rivers Consulting

“Social Innovation Canada engaged the Secret Agents team on a few different pieces of work this year, and we were incredibly impressed with their care and attention for the work, their efficiency, and their relationship-focused approach. I have referred Secret Agents on to a number of other clients and can't wait to work with them again!”

Founder Roots & Rivers Consulting
Maureen Silcoff
President Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers
Maureen Silcoff
President Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers

“Secret Agents developed and implemented a research and storytelling initiative for us with insight, creativity, and professionalism. Ian and Shawn are amazing storytellers who use state of the art social media tools to bring a message to life.”

President Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers
Jeff Ward
CEO Animikii Indigenous Technology
Jeff Ward
CEO Animikii Indigenous Technology

“Secret Agents help us understand and realize our impact in new ways. We hosted our inaugural Indigenous Innovators Gathering with research and support from Secret Agents and I appreciated their approach of leading design of the event but also transferring their knowledge and expertise, building Animikii’s capacity so that our team can grow and learn.”

CEO Animikii Indigenous Technology

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how might we be Able to help you Communicate Impact?