Elemental's approach facilitates Interconnection (ecosystem cultivation), Insight (knowledge exchange), Imagination (funding experiments), and Integration (sector alignment) with individuals and institutions in philanthropy.
Commissioned to design and facilitate a funder engagement process that shares insights on how to resource the infrastructure to shift cultural mindsets for the long-term and explore opportunities for co-investment.
Facilitate a session at the ACF annual conference on the ways public perception of philanthropy is shifting and opportunities to build narrative power for a democratic vision of justice for all.
Design and facilitate a funding exploration that asks: what does care look like when it is not a response to harm? And how might we resource proactive care practices that prefigure the world we long for?
Published guidance drawn from the wisdom and experience of 50 movement communications and narrative organizers on the funding criteria and philanthropic practices that effectively resource narrative infrastructure and power building.
Serve as a strategic partner in designing an action-based co-learning process to identify best practices for resourcing narrative power across a wide range of issues through an exploration with a committed group of peer funders.
Convene narrative funders to cultivate relationships, share knowledge, surface shared ambitions, co-strategize, and identify ways to collaborate on resourcing the UK narrative ecosystem.
Co-moderator of a member community at Ariadne Network where funders explore how resourcing these strategic approaches can support human rights and social justice aims.
Curated and edited a series that features contributors who represent a cross-section of philanthropy exploring narratives that drive how the sector operates and sharing what's possible by altering these flawed assumptions.
What if philanthropy’s greatest resource isn’t financial but relational capital? This conversation with Louisa Mann, Tesmerelna Atsbeha, and Chiara K. Cattaneo explores our relationship with money, power, and each other.
Hosted a podcast episode to explore narratives that underpin common practices in philanthropy and provide examples of funders that have adopted practices that accelerate progress toward a more just and joyful world.
Curatela ed edizione di una serie di contributi che rappresentano una sezione trasversale della filantropia, esplorando le narrative che condizionano il modo in cui il settore opera e condividendo cosa sarebbe possibile alterando queste premesse fallaci.
Published an article that provides a situational analysis of the narrative infrastructure of social justice movements and how philanthropy can contribute to fortifying it.
Published a framework to guide grantmaking based on an in-depth analysis of insights from global narrative practitioners and funders about the quality of resources movements need.
Se publicó un análisis en profundidad de las ideas de los profesionales y financiadores de la narrativa global sobre la calidad de los recursos que necesitan los movimientos.
Published an article that synthesizes practice implications for funders that seek to resource narrative ecosystems and infrastructure.
Publicar un artículo que sintetice las implicaciones prácticas para los financiadores que buscan financiar ecosistemas narrativos e infraestructura.
Convened narrative funders to cultivate relationships, share information about the landscape of narrative work and funding, and identify ways to be mutually supportive in resourcing narrative ecosystems in Southeast Asia.
Organized a session at the Philea Forum where narrative practitioners and philanthropy professionals provide practical guidance on how to effectively resource the narrative strategies of social movements.
Co-presented a session at the Narrative Power Summit in which funders and narrative practitioners demystify philanthropy and co-design a fund to resource narrative infrastructure.
Invited to be the keynote for and support the design of the Communications Professionals in Philanthropy meeting where Philea members connect, exchange ideas, and co-develop solutions on shared challenges.
Took part in book promotion for an anthology in which Mandy Van Deven and Zaineb Mohammed co-authored a chapter that examines the history of philanthropy, communications, and narrative.
Guided the direction of a foundation’s narrative strategy that aims to catalyze a new vision for wealth stewardship by elevating practices that promote the equitable governance of money.
Guest curated an issue of The Wellbeing Project's newsletter for philanthropy professionals that creatively explored the links between narrative, care, and healing in the sector.
Invited to participate in a panel discussion with the Forced Labor and Human Trafficking team and a group of migrant worker leaders about narrative as a practice for advancing migrant rights.
Hosted a podcast episode to enhance funders' knowledge of and support for practices that empower organizers to build narrative and cultural power and foster durable transformation.
Invited to speak at the Network of European Foundations annual meeting of European foundations dedicated to strengthening philanthropic cooperation about how to resource narrative change.
Provided an introduction to key concepts and facilitate dialogue about narrative change among a community of European philanthropy support organisations that seek to identify common ground and jointly advance the ecosystem.
Invited to deliver a workshop on how to resource narrative power at Assifero's National Assembly of Members.
Organized a session at the Funding Futures Festival to share insights on the transformative capacity of community-led narrative and cultural strategies to make progress on intersectional human rights.
Invited to speak on a podcast about the advantages of taking an ecosystem approach to resourcing narrative power and the narratives that govern philanthropy.
