This interview originally appeared on Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ website as part of their 20th Anniversary Celebration. The article is reposted in full. How IRIS Uses Storytelling to Drive Social Change International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS) is a new donor collaborative...

Last October, International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS) gathered together more than 70 storytellers and activists to share inspiration and evoke curiosity about new forms of storytelling and impactful narratives that respond to our present moment. Our friends at Bogotá-based...

Read in Portuguese In his latest piece for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, IRIS Narrative Lead Brett Davidson notes that “Narrative Change has emerged as a field over the past few years, as nonprofits and foundations long focused on supporting human rights saw that many of their hard-won...

In this newsletter: a new report launched for #saferstorytellers   Still in early stages, IRIS is now building out its structure which is envisioned to create and amplify interdisciplinary story and narrative-centered exchanges between grassroots to regional to national and international...

Leia em portugués | Lea en español What we need instead is the space to mourn collectively, be angry together, learn to look after and look out for one another. — Brett Davidson, Narrative Lead at the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling Over the past few weeks, I’ve come across...

Leia em portugués | Lea en español Funders, activists and movement leaders need to understand what happens in the field of narrative during a time of crisis and disruption, and prepare ahead of time rather than scrambling to respond after a disruptive event takes place. Here are five factors we...

  At the 20th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, I addressed the convening with a ‘Letter to Tomorrow: The Cultural Imperative.’ In this keynote, I explored creative strategies that address cultural power. FIFDH’s commitment to positively impact the world...

Leia em portugués | Lea en español Stories are not magic bullets and impact isn’t linear. This resonates with IRIS’ approach—it’s why we work with storytellers who embrace nonlinear, complex, and unpredictable narratives that drive concrete benefits back to story source communities. — Brett...

Greetings from IRIS, a new donor collaborative working internationally at the intersection of story, impact and civic innovation. Launched this summer, we have been building the team and working with our donor partners and experts to pilot our work. We wanted to introduce you to the IRIS team and...