I want to first say that I think that the conversation around narrative has been very contrived, that narratives are a set of ideas or beliefs that have been refined over time that accumulate, and so when we talk about shifting the narrative, I think that it makes it sound like it happens one organization
I love this question about experimentation, because it’s central to how I approach building narrative power. I was first introduced to design thinking by my mentor Sujatha JC Dawson, who is a professor of management practice at The New School, and it was just the kind of intervention I needed to stop making years-long comms
This is my 10th year building narrative power for social movements, and I’ll talk a little bit more about what narrative power is and how we deploy it, but in that time the field of strategic communications has grown profoundly, and that’s one significant change that we’ve seen—more and more institutions working to eliminate oppressive
On any given day of the week, nonprofits face multiple decisions, large and small. How do we know we’re making the right ones? The word billionaire is ubiquitously associated with certain names: Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett being two of the highest profile in the class. Aside from their immense wealth, one thing that links
“Voto Latino’s Power Summit,” Yashmori This article is the fifth in a series of articles that NPQ, in partnership with Hispanics in Philanthropy, will publish in the coming weeks. (You can read the prior installments here, here, here, and here). The series brings forward the voices of Latinx leaders within the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors
