All Guaranteed Income is Narrative Change: How Grantmakers Can Better Understand, Practice, and Support Narrative Change Efforts (Part 2)

This is an in-person workshop in Oakland, California for funders making grants benefiting the East Bay.

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 two is an in-person workshop in Oakland, California for funders making grants benefiting the East Bay.

Participating funders will be engaged in a full day of hands-on activities and joyous engagement in a brave space. Participating funders should come prepared to fully participate with a growth mindset. Pre-work will include: watching part one of this training; a personal reflection exercise on harmful narratives; and submission of narratives your grantmaking institution is attempting to change. Materials will be emailed to registered participants in mid-September.

Faculty

Anne Price, The Maven Collaborative
Jhumpa Bhattacharya, The Maven Collaborative

Sponsor

Y&H Soda Foundation