Regenerating Community Leadership in Virtual Space
In the summer of 2021, NewStories launched an in-depth learning program for leaders whose work is to regenerate community. Over the last decade, NewStories has worked with grassroots community leaders throughout Cascadia, the Pacific Northwest, across North America, and throughout the world. We created a virtual infrastructure to connect leaders and communities at four scales: […]
Systems Change in Brazil
In 2022, NewStories began working with Imaginable Futures, a foundation in Latin America that is prioritizing systems change for equity and whole-child education. Using principles and practices of Re-Storying, we were able to shape the approach of the foundation’s initiative in Brazil by connecting and amplifying key voices. Valuing local change that makes life better […]
First Peoples’ Convening
It’s challenging to see a story you are in alone. The deep stories that shape the way we make meaning of actions become visible only when we are in the company of others. NewStories has worked with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to support Indigenous peoples around the world who are quite literally being drowned […]
Missouri Food Justice Initiative
Philanthropy is changing. Those with funds to give are seeing that they need different approaches to bring them into authentic relationships with, and shift power to, those doing work on the ground. That is essential to make things better now and to create new and equitable transformative solutions in the future. Missouri Foundation for Health […]
Dance Palace
Like many other organizations, the Dance Palace on the coastal side of California’s Marin County was devastated by COVID. A hub of community life built around the arts, everything either stopped or radically transformed in 2020. The leadership of the Dance Palace decided to use the disruption to reground themselves in community and to work […]