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The Transformation Storytelling Fellowship is an initiative under Community Foundations of Canada’s Transformation work. Its purpose is to mobilize young people to bring an equitable and intergenerational lens into storytelling, with the goal of enabling systems transformation.
The Transformation Storytelling Fellowship program is supported by Canada Life.
Storytelling For Systems Transformation
The stories we tell often shape the change we create. Through the Transformation Storytelling Fellowship, we’re exploring the narratives within the following themes:
- Inclusive social infrastructure
- Emerging technologies for better futures
- Revisioning and reimagining
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Systems Transformation Model
How does storytelling play a role in systems transformation? This model shows the pillars and purpose that guide our work and how pathways like narrative shifting can help transform systems.
Around the globe, community leaders and organizations are working to transform philanthropy.
As the world continues to change, so does philanthropy. This series of stories, written in collaboration with WINGS Philanthropy Transformation Initiative, shares case studies of three community foundations who are building a future where everyone belongs, in philanthropy and beyond.
Clayoquot Biosphere Trust: A WINGS Philanthropy Transformation Initiative Case Study Read more
Foundation of Greater Montréal: A WINGS Philanthropy Transformation Initiative Case Study Read more
Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation: A WINGS Philanthropy Transformation Initiative Case Study Read more
Social infrastructures are the hearts and souls of cities.
They’re the spaces, platforms and networks that allow residents to gather and build shared lives, collaborate across differences, and weave social cohesion. This series of stories explore practical examples of inclusive social infrastructures that embed principles of Truth and Reconciliation, as well as decolonization in their design.
A Gathering Place Where Love Grows Read more
It’s All Here in the North End: Building And Funding An Ecosystem of Change Read more
Weaving Cohesion Through Inclusive Social Infrastructure Read more
Turning A Commitment to Truth & Reconciliation Into Action Read more
Web3 technologies represent an opportunity to shift power, value, and ownership
Emerging technologies, such as AI, or applications built on blockchain technologies intend to democratize the ownership and governance of information, as well as the networks and funds linked to them. These web3 technologies, as they are popularly known, represent an opportunity to shift power, value, and ownership away from centralized mega-institutions and towards creators and users. The blogs below explore how that philanthropy can benefit from or contribute to emerging technologies.
What Else Is Possible? Read more
Slow Study Storytelling Series: Imagination and Dreaming as Technologies of Transformation Read more
Slow Study Storytelling Series: Generative Inquiry As A Tool for Systems Transformation Read more
Slow Study Storytelling Series: We Are Transformed By What We Seek To Transform Read more
Storytelling is a powerful tool to help us envision and imagine a more livable, pleasurable, equitable futures.
The pieces below explore the transformation we need, helping us re-imagine and re-vision the world we want to live in, and help shape for future generations to inherit.
Accessible Transformation Read more
Lessons from a transformational storytelling fellowship Read more
Collectively Imagined Futures Read more
Meet the Fellows
Inda Intiar
Fellow 2022/23
Njoki Mbũrũ
Fellow 2022/23
