Valuable tools to meet the moment and foster our dreaming and practice our feminist futures
Developed by Thays Prado from Feminist future for the Feminist Dream Space. This toolkit offers us practical ways to use futures and foresight methodologies in feminist, creative and playful ways.
Collective Imagination Toolkit
The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit, curated by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, aims to collate and platform the wisdom of Collective Imagination practitioners around the world, creating an accessible set of tools for anyone who wants to build the capacity to explore and learn a spectrum of practices related to Collective Imagination (as well as unlearn those practices that might block their inquiry).
Tech and data resources curated by Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin is a transdisciplinary scholar, writer and educator. She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. You can find valuable resources on: Tech & social justice initiatives; Fairness, accountability and transparency initiatives; Institutes and centers, etc. in this comprehensive list.
Cultural change precedes social change. Narrative drives policy. This is why we must be as strategic and rigorous in building narrative power as we are in building all other forms of power. Narrative is the space in which energies are activated to preserve a destructive system or build a better world for us all.
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Valuable articles and publications
African Philanthropies: “Our Narratives, on Our Terms” -by Halima Mahomed
Cultivating the Conditions: Philanthropy’s Role in Fortifying the Infrastructure for Narrative Power. by Mandy Van Deven
Rethinking Resources. A Newsletter for Proximate where Amina and Angelika explore the question “What’s next for resourcing social justice and feminist movements around the world?
How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems. Article by Mandy Van Deven and Jody Myrum for Non Profit Quarterly
How philanthropy can fund the infrastructure for narrative power an article by Philea
Investment Theory of Change - Equality Fund
Fostering a Feminist Financial Imagination - by Criterion Institute
Endowments as a Tool for Transformative Change - by Criterion Institute
A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations - by Criterion Institute
Inspiratorio - training center for narrative power builders in Latin America, by Puentes