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Narrating Toward a Bigger "We": How We Build a Model Majority
We celebrate and uplift organizers whose work, we believe, moves us toward this Model Majority - an intergenerational, multiracial, multifaith, and multilingual constituency that recognizes the power of its own history and is actively envisioning a world that includes all of us.
May 28, 20253 min read


Meeting Crisis with Community
Communities are stepping in where institutions fall short with mutual aid, community health organizations, and reclaiming narrative agency; these communities are fostering solutions anchored in hope, imagination, resilience, and solidarity. Their existence is resistance to harmful narratives of dehumanization, othering, and scarcity that shape the conversation about who deserves care—and how it should be delivered.
May 21, 20254 min read


Harmful versus Helpful Narratives
Understanding which narratives are harmful and which ones help your cause is essential. You might think you only need to focus on the helpful new narrative you're shifting to—the one you do want to advance.
May 8, 20252 min read


Orienting Together: Mapping your Narrative Landscape
Narrative Landscaping is critical to successful narrative organizing and a great place to start.
Oct 26, 20236 min read


Narrative Organizing: How we shift power towards justice
Narrative organizing is the act of building, creating and using narrative to shift power towards justice, equity and democracy. Narrative...
Oct 6, 20214 min read


Four Baskets: Necessary capacities for narrative change
Narrative change projects can be exciting to plan but can face complex challenges. The Four Baskets framework can help facilitate your work.
Jul 30, 20209 min read


What We Learned in Minnesota
Read the Full Report: Building Narrative Infrastructure in Minnesota, August 2019 Narrative Initiative was founded in 2016 to build a...
Aug 2, 20194 min read

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