A resource library for narrative change

Below is a curated collection of guides, worksheets, webinars and trainings offered as a resource for the field of narrative change practitioners. While Narrative Initiative created some of these resources, others are generated by our partners. If you’re new to the idea of narrative change, check out our where to start section below. This collection is evolving and we will add to it as we are able.

Beyond Neoliberalism: A Narrative Approach

Explores narrative strategies that might point the way to the next economy.

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Building Narrative Infrastructure in Minnesota

Recommendations for practitioners and funders embarking on narrative change projects.

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Field Guide: Narrative Research Methodologies

This report explores the landscape of both existing and emergent narrative research methodologies.

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Four Baskets Field Guide For Narrative Change Practice

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Four Baskets Self Assessment

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Funding Narrative Change: An Assessment and Framework

A vital framework for funders and practitioners seeking narrative shifts around racial justice and health equity.

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Funding Narrative Change: How Communities are Shaping and Wielding Narrative Power

How community organizations exercise narrative power to advance systemic change.

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Harnessing our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV)

Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence is a guide for communities across the United States to organize to counter political violence.

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ICE Detention of Migrant Firefighters: Narrative Landscape Analysis

ICE’s detention of firefighters responding to the Bear Gulch Fire – the largest wild fire recorded in the Olympic Peninsula – ignites a powerful conversation on immigration enforcement and its cost to all of us.

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Narrative Guide for Immigrant Futures (2025)

Offers tools for designing strategic narrative interventions that counter fear and change attitudes

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Principles for Reframing the National Security Narrative

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Rural-Urban Unity Project: A Case Study with Arkansas Public Policy Panel

How grassroots coalitions mobilized communities to expand equitable school funding and challenge entrenched special interests in Arkansas.

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Rural-Urban Unity Project: A Case Study with Communities for Our Colleges

How a multiracial student-centered campaign changed the conversation on access to higher public education

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Rural-Urban Unity Project: A Case Study with Maine People’s Alliance

How a values-based approach to advocacy and organizing led to a big win for paid family leave.

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Rural-Urban Unity Project: A Case Study with Missouri Workers Center

How low wage workers mobilized voters to stop a tax increase when negotiations for a community-benefits agreement failed to deliver.

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Rural-Urban Unity Project: A Case Study with Transit for All PA!

How a statewide coalition mobilized communities across geography and ability to push for greater investment in public transit.

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Texas Floods: Narrative Analysis

A close look at the harmful and helpful narratives that emerged during the Texas Floods of July 2025–and what they can tell us about the narrative power needed for a true, pluralistic democracy.

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The Courage in Care: Community Doulas and the Joyful Revolution of Birth

In 2024, Narrative Initiative partnered with The Burke Foundation and design firm In Good Company to create The Courage In Care: Community Doulas and the Joyful Revolution of Birth, an exhibit celebrating the transformative work of community doulas and the essential role they play in advancing birth justice.

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Toward New Gravity

An overview of common challenges, hard-earned lessons, and urgent needs for the field.

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Transforming Narrative Waters: Growing the practice of deep narrative change in the UK

Provides background on narrative change practices and opportunities for the UK.

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Worksheet for Narrative North Star Readiness

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