The 4 C’s
We work alongside organizations, artists, and funders to strengthen their narrative and cultural strategy.
Through strategic advising, storytelling support, and audience insight we help partners deepen their narrative power, strengthen their message, and align their work with the broader movements for repair and redistribution.
Whether you are designing a campaign, shifting public perception, or building internal capacity, we help partners integrate narrative and cultural strategy into every level of their work.
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A structured, multi-month process that brings practitioners, funders, and the people closest to an issue into one room to build shared narrative strategy. Participants leave with narrative frameworks that their field can use.
Frames, messages, and narrative schematics built for a coalition, organization, or a field. We help partners define what they stand for, name what they’re up against, and align narratives across the groups they work with.
Opinion research, audience segmentation, message and frame testing, and literature reviews designed to tell you not just what people think, but how to shape what they believe is possible and what would move them to act.
Trainings, study sessions, and facilitated Solidarity Gym exercises that build the analysis and the relationships cross-movement work requires. For organizations that want solidarity to be a practice rather than just a statement.
Support for foundations designing narrative, cultural, or reparative justice portfolios, and structuring participatory grantmaking.
Since 2023, BLIS has designed and facilitated the Health Equity Narrative Lab, convening strategists, organizers, artists, and funders to create and socialize the Health Equity Narrative House.
We are working with EQUIP-NJ to build statewide narrative infrastructure for New Jersey’s racial and economic justice ecosystem by developing a field-informed Narrative North Star and a blueprint for long-term narrative infrastructure across the state.
A multi-phase partnership helping Meyer build a narrative strategy for Greater Washington. We assessed the region’s narrative landscape through interviews with grantees, peer funders, and staff, then trained Meyer’s teams to recognize and resource narrative power, followed by workshops and coaching for grantee partners running their own narrative experiments.
Building a youth wellbeing narrative lab on the model we developed with RWJF. Over a year, the Lab will convene practitioners, young people, and funders to build a narrative framework for the youth mental health field.
We advised the organization on narrative strategy over a year, training their communications team, mentoring staff building careers in narrative, and shaping the strategy and influence work at the center of their economic justice agenda.
Narrative trainings for family foundations working across Greater Washington and the US South. We led workshops for Open Horizons’ leadership and staff and for their Leaders Network.
