Video Storytelling for Impact Reports
Make an impact, show the results.
Are you looking to share your stories of success about conservation, community action, stewardship, or sustainability in a powerful, inspiring, and impactful way?
For over 16 years, we have helped destinations, brands, and organizations increase their impact by telling local stories worldwide using beautifully crafted videos, engaging content, and communications—all with a ‘people-first’ approach.
Our unique fusion of creativity, strategy, and authenticity enables us to align our video storytelling with your organizational objectives for showcasing your projects.
Impact Results for Nonprofits, NGOs, & Foundations
The Power of Visual Storytelling
Video storytelling is a powerful tool that helps bring a story to life.
People retain 65-70% of info shared through stories, compared to only 5-10% through a complex data-driven report.
Video storytelling portrays the people, the communities, and the environment behind the data and the research, bringing your project or initiative to life in an empowering, emotionally appealing way.
How Foundations and Nonprofits Can Use Video Storytelling for Impact Reports
In support of major projects, a video impact report can live alongside a traditional, written, data-driven report on a project to be presented at a board meeting, an industry event, or as a fundraising tool.
Impact Report Examples with Video Storytelling
Example 1: Saving Cochamó: A Community Protects the Wild in Chile’s Volcano Region
The powerful convergence of conservation and responsible tourism is essential for protecting the places we love—and this story is a powerful example of that success.
A story of collaborative community conservation in one of the most iconic wild landscapes in South America. This is the story of how residents and grassroots nonprofits came together to defend Chile’s Cochamó Valley and safeguard its forests, rivers, culture, biodiversity, and future.
The film showcases the power of a community-first conservation model that unites local leaders with culturally responsive national and international partners to protect a place that has shaped generations. It documents how decades of local stewardship, resilience, and advocacy helped catalyze one of the most ambitious land-protection efforts in Chilean history.
PROJECT MISSION
Puelo Patagonia and Organización Valle Cochamó (OVC), two small yet deeply ambitious grassroots organizations, had long worked to protect the ecological and cultural heritage of Cochamó Valley. In 2022, their mission reached a pivotal moment: the remaining 131,000 hectares of Hacienda Puchegüín—one of the largest remaining pieces of privately owned wilderness in the region—went up for sale. The community recognized an unprecedented opportunity to secure lasting protection for the valley before extractive pressures or overtourism could irrevocably damage it. Together, they built an unprecedented alliance with global conservation leaders, including The Nature Conservancy, the Freyja Foundation, Patagonia, and the Wyss Foundation.
To support the Conserva Puchegüín campaign and amplify the voices of those fighting for their home, GLP Films produced a pro bono short film capturing the urgency, passion, and collaboration driving this historic conservation moment. The film centers on the perspectives of local families, community leaders, and nonprofit partners, documenting their hopes, fears, challenges, and vision for a protected future.
IMPACT
The Conserva Puchegüín campaign has become one of the most significant conservation initiatives in Chile. With the full fundraising goal nearly achieved, the coalition is on track to secure the remaining private land, establishing one of the largest wildlife corridors in South America—more than 1.6 million hectares of connected protected lands.
The film supports this historic effort by elevating local leadership and reinforcing a powerful global message: meaningful conservation succeeds when communities are at the center, and diverse partners work together toward a shared vision, uniting to protect threatened wild places before it is too late.
Impact Project Details
Partner: Puelo Patagonia and Organización Valle Cochamó
Location: Valle Cochamó, Chile
Key Themes: Conservation | Collaboration | Community | Responsible Tourism
Example 2: Community-Led Conservation in the Maya Bioshere Reserve
A powerful story of community-led forest conservation by the communities who both nurture and support the forest’s resources in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the Petén region in Guatemala. They were awarded the first forest concession in history by the Guatemalan government.
The film highlights the power of the local community to successfully manage, protect, and conserve the forests throughout the past 25 years of the concession and beyond.
Impact Project Details
Partner: Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP)
Location: The Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén Region of Guatemala
Key Themes: Community | Collaboration | Conservation | Stewardship
PROJECT MISSION
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP), a philanthropic organization that directly supports forest conservation and community concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the Petén region of Guatemala, sought to incorporate authentic community voices and stories into their evaluative efforts to assess the progress and positive impact of the community concession program over the past 25 years.
MACP wanted to capture the voices, thoughts, and opinions of local workers, concession leaders, and community members. The video story served not only to document the impact of the concession model over 25 years, but also to directly record their hopes, fears, threats, and vision for the future.
IMPACT
The film supplemented the data collected by MACP and was presented to board members and stakeholders involved in the project.
Example 3: Sierra Gorda Ecological Group: Innovative Local Climate Solutions
This film powerfully highlights the successful conservation and climate solutions they initiated decades ago in response to the rapid environmental deterioration of their home in the Sierra Gorda bioregion in Querétaro, Mexico. Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda IAP continually strives to bring progress to the region and serve as a global example of community-led, research-based conservation projects. A story of resilience, innovation, and the extraordinary power of local action. Local stewards are the custodians and agents of change and a driving force for a nature-positive future.
Impact Project Details
Partner: Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda IAP
Location: Sierra Gorda Region, Queretaro, Mexico
Key Themes: Reforestation | Carbon Solutions | Conservation | Stewardship | Community
PROJECT MISSION
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG) was founded over 35 years ago, led by the singular vision of one woman, Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, and her family and their mission to preserve, protect, and regenerate the unique biodiversity of the Sierra Gorda. Since their founding, the GESG team has built integrated community environmental education programs and celebrations to bring hope to the serious work of regeneration and conservation. Today, their local, science-based model is being applied to a regional carbon reduction program and provides a critical local model that can be replicated on a global scale. As the impacts of climate change continue to accelerate declines in biodiversity, GESG’s work brings us hope for a better future.
The film highlights the successful conservation and climate solutions they initiated in response to the rapid environmental deterioration of their home in the Sierra Gorda bioregion in Querétaro, Mexico.
IMPACT
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG) won the Climate Innovations category in the 2024 Regenerative Travel Impact Awards in Climate Innovations. The film is also the winner of My Hero Film Festival 2024, the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2024, an Official Selection for the Colorado Environmental Film Festival 2025, and the Wild & Scenic Film Festival 2025.
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