How to Fund Narrative Change Ecosystems

Reflections on the Global Narrative Hive gathering last year, with practical suggestions for funders and practitioners. “Narrative change is a fundamentally collective endeavor… In addition to making long-term, unrestricted grants funders need to provide resources in a way that centers the ecosystem rather than individual organizations.” With a clear warning to avoid “unwittingly replicating colonial inheritances, by popularizing (our) own perspectives and practices as the aspirational standard, claiming undue influence as gatekeepers and knowledge bearers,” instead emphasising “collective care” and “cultivating intergenerational solidarity”.