All Guaranteed Income is Narrative Change: How Grantmakers Can Better Understand, Practice, and Support Narrative Change Efforts
Narratives permeate all aspects of our daily lives. Narratives uphold our personal mental models, inform our understanding of current and historical events, shape our grantmaking strategies and practices, and influence our social, political, and economic systems. False narratives and harmful myths–in particular those about poverty and race–stand in the way of advancing meaningful economic equity. As such, economic justice practitioners have leveraged cash-based programs to build narrative power. And narrative change has emerged as a distinct funding interest and strategy among asset building funders. But what is narrative change? How is the guaranteed income movement building narrative power? And what are the philanthropic levers to advance narrative change and sustained progress?
All Guaranteed Income is Narrative Change: How Grantmakers Can Better Understand, Practice, and Support Narrative Change Efforts is a two-part training for grantmakers to learn the narrative change basics, exchange philanthropic practices, and explore actionable opportunities to support narrative change. Part one is an online webinar open to all funders. Funders will leave with a solid foundation of what narrative change is and is not, the impact of narratives on economic security policy change, and how to know whether your narrative change funding is advancing progress. Part two is an in-person workshop in Oakland, California for funders making grants benefiting the East Bay. Local funders can register for part two here.
Join us September 5 for part one of this training series, a learning session on:
- what is and is not narrative change;
- concrete examples of the most harmful narratives currently in play that act as hurdles to transformative economic policy;
- how to stop utilizing harmful narratives;
- the role of philanthropy in shifting narratives; and
- considerations and best practices when engaging in narrative change work.
Faculty
Anne Price, The Maven Collaborative
Jhumpa Bhattacharya, The Maven Collaborative
Sponsor
Y&H Soda Foundation
*Thumbnail image provided by The Maven Collective
