Investing in Mindset Infrastructure
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.
Pause Fund
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?
How to Fund Like a Narrative Strategist
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.
Funder Learning and Action Cohort
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.
UK Narrative Funder Gatherings
Convene narrative funders to cultivate relationships, share knowledge, surface shared ambitions, co-strategize, and identify ways to collaborate on resourcing the UK narrative ecosystem.
New Narratives Convening
Invited to participate in a meeting with the International Funder Collaborative to contribute insights on how to fund narrative infrastructure and power building.
Funder Space: Communication, Narrative, and Culture Change
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.
Philanthropy’s Mandate to Fund Narrative Power
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.
Myths of Philanthropy Series
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.
The Myths of Philanthropy (virtual session)
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.
The Myths of Philanthropy (podcast)
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.
Cultivating the Conditions
Published an article that provides a situational analysis of the narrative infrastructure of social justice movements and how philanthropy can contribute to fortifying it.
How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems
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.
How to Fund the Infrastructure for Narrative Power
Published an article that synthesizes practice implications for funders that seek to resource narrative ecosystems and infrastructure.
Southeast Asia Narrative Funder Gathering
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.
How Can Philanthropy Fund Narrative Power at Scale?
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.
Impact Report: POP Fund
Invited to share insights on drivers that affect the pop culture for social justice ecosystem and the future of cultural strategy for the Power of Pop Fund's end-of-pilot evaluation.
Art and Culture in Action
Invited to participate in a funder-only meeting on narrative and cultural strategies that advance climate and gender justice and inclusive democratic societies.
Philanthropy’s Relationship to Narrative Power Building
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.
Communicating in Times of Scrutiny
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.