How Can Philanthropy Fund Narrative Power at Scale?

A write up of the session held at Philea, in which Isabel Crabtree-Condor (Oxfam Novib), Abi Knipe (Global Narrative Hive and Funders Initiative for Civil Society), Chiara K. Cattaneo (Elemental), and Mandy Van Deven (Both/And Solutions and Elemental) discussed what it will take for philanthropy to “effectively resource narrative strategies”. There were calls for “intersectional collaboration as a starting point, not an end goal”, taking the necessary time to come together “to build trust and meaningful relationships”; for philanthropy to “recognise its current power and its full potential in the narrative space by contributing resources to a vision of a collective future we all care about and nurturing this vision of the future in the present through concrete actions”, and “getting involved in learning and practice spaces…to identify and unravel the myths that dictate how our sector operates.”