Building Narrative Infrastructure in Minnesota
In 2017, Narrative Initiative launched a state strategy to support the emergence of narrative change infrastructure at the state level. This report provides an overview of the program as well as lessons and recommendations for narrative change practitioners and funders.
In late 2017, after doing an assessment of potential states, we partnered with Take Action Minnesota and the Our Minnesota Future coalition as well as a number of other national partners. Over the course of 2017-2019, we experimented with ways to support narrative change practitioners and build what we call a “narrative nervous system.” This report provides an overview of our theory of change for this program, what we did, the impact of our interventions, and what we learned. It also includes recommendations for practitioners and funders embarking on narrative change projects.