Design and secure co-investors for a collaborative fund that will enable coordinated investments in long-term infrastructure for cultural mindset shifts that promote dignity, equity, and collective well-being.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Moderate a webinar with leaders working at the intersection of film, media, cultural organizing, and philanthropy to discuss narrative power as both an internal practice and an external strategy for social change.

Carry out a strategic inquiry that included a situational analysis, overview of investments in UK narrative infrastructure, case studies of funding experiments, themes in philanthropy’s successes and failures, and recommendations on future directions.

Convene narrative funders to cultivate relationships, share knowledge, surface shared ambitions, co-strategize, and identify ways to collaborate on resourcing the UK narrative ecosystem.

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.

Invited to contribute to Kataly Foundation’s series to publicly share philanthropy failure stories, a reminder that sharing our wrong turns and course corrections is an act of humility and generosity, and a commitment to being more effective as a sector.

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.

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.

Facilitated a session at the Association of Charitable Foundations 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.

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.

Partnered with the Philanthropisms podcast to create a 4-episode series that dives deeply into some common narratives that shape the philanthropic sector and offers insights on how to step into transformative opportunities.

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.

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.

Published an article that synthesizes practice implications for funders that seek to resource narrative ecosystems and infrastructure.