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Confluence II: Global Narrative Power
Time: Past, Region: Global, Region: MENA, Approach: Insight, Approach: Interconnection, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/17/25 Time: Past, Region: Global, Region: MENA, Approach: Insight, Approach: Interconnection, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/17/25

Confluence II: Global Narrative Power

Invited to participate in a gathering of global narrative practitioners and funders that focused on decolonization narratives through the lens of Palestine.

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Legacy Narrative Project
Language: English, Region: Europe, Time: Past, Approach: Insight Mandy Van Deven 9/16/25 Language: English, Region: Europe, Time: Past, Approach: Insight Mandy Van Deven 9/16/25

Legacy Narrative Project

Invited to contribute insights to the Lankelly Chase Foundation’s compilation of lessons learned over fifteen years of funding systems change and social justice movements.

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How Philanthropy Can Fund Narrative Power that Lasts
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/16/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/16/25

How Philanthropy Can Fund Narrative Power that Lasts

Invited to be a panelist for a 4-part learning series hosted by Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia on what funders can do to support narrative infrastructure that strengthens democracy.

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The Essential Power of Deep Narrative
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Europe, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/15/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Europe, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/15/25

The Essential Power of Deep Narrative

Contributed to an exploration of how ‘deep narratives’ function to hinder or accelerate social and cultural transformation, with a particular focus on the UK context.

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A Reading Group on Narrative Change
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Global, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/14/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Global, Language: English Mandy Van Deven 9/14/25

A Reading Group on Narrative Change

Invited to co-present at the Annotation Exchange series, which aims to harness collective knowledge, explore new modes of digital collaboration, and create new approaches, frameworks, and models of engagement in narrative change.

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Narrative and Community Building in Italy
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Approach: Interconnection, Region: Europe, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/12/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Approach: Interconnection, Region: Europe, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/12/25

Narrative and Community Building in Italy

Invited to present on the role of narrative in building community at Assifero's National Conference of Community Foundations.

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Funding Narrative Ecosystems to Build Power
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Global, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/11/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Global, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/11/25

Funding Narrative Ecosystems to Build Power

Facilitated an EDGEy Wednesday session on building power for collective transformation by funding narrative ecosystems.

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Movement Journalism and Media Reparations
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/10/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/10/25

Movement Journalism and Media Reparations

Invited to host an Activist Book Club session on movement journalism, media reparations, and imaging a media landscape where Black people not only tell their stories, but own them.

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A New Era of Philanthropy
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/9/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/9/25

A New Era of Philanthropy

Provided input on a book manuscript that explores the foundational assumptions that shape how philanthropy operates and practice shifts to move the sector beyond critique to real transformation.

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Funder Learning Series
Time: Past, Region: North America, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/8/25 Time: Past, Region: North America, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/8/25

Funder Learning Series

Provided guidance to explore a learning series that deepens funder knowledge of the connections between narrative strategies, organizing, and power building to promote economic justice and worker power.

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Media Impact Project
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/7/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/7/25

Media Impact Project

Served as advisor on a series of reports commissioned by the California Health Care Foundation to surface insights on how to think about narrative change impact and how to more effectively fund this work.

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We Have the Narrative Power
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Latin America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/6/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Latin America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/6/25

We Have the Narrative Power

Invited to speak at an event celebrating the five year anniversary of Puentes.

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Alternative Feminist Economic Narratives
Region: Europe, Approach: Insight, Time: Past, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/5/25 Region: Europe, Approach: Insight, Time: Past, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/5/25

Alternative Feminist Economic Narratives

Contributed to a mapping project that identified the narrative approaches of global feminist organizations and artists that shape new economic thinking and policy making.

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Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources
Time: Past, Region: Global, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/4/25 Time: Past, Region: Global, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/4/25

Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources

Invited to contribute narrative-related definitions to a toolkit of practical feminist influencing strategies and actions.

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Narrative Trend Brings New Money to Journalism
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/3/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: North America, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/3/25

Narrative Trend Brings New Money to Journalism

Invited to contribute an article to NiemenLab's annual predictions for journalism series on how philanthropy can invest in journalism as part of a narrative change strategy.

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Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat
Time: Past, Region: Europe, Approach: Interconnection, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/2/25 Time: Past, Region: Europe, Approach: Interconnection, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/2/25

Pop Culture and Social Change Retreat

Invited to join a gathering of cultural innovators, activists, and philanthropists working to strengthen narrative power to advance climate and migrant justice in the UK.

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Humor and Human Rights Lab
Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Europe, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/1/25 Time: Past, Approach: Insight, Region: Europe, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/1/25

Humor and Human Rights Lab

Participated in a multi-day gathering that brought a selected group of activists, scholars, and narrative practitioners together to explore how to leverage humor to make progress on global human rights.

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Expanding Narrative Impact in the UK
Time: Past, Region: Europe, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/1/25 Time: Past, Region: Europe, Approach: Insight, Language: English Jocelyn Ban 9/1/25

Expanding Narrative Impact in the UK

Contributed to the design and development of research to determine what it would take for narrative change work to have more real-world impact in the United Kingdom.

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