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Owners, CEOs, Presidents, and Vice Presidents
Next Narrative Summit Is by invitation-only:
Summit Partners recommend and invite foundation senior executives, communications strategists, and strategic allies.
$10B Giving
The 2024 Next Narrative Summit convened 161 executive leaders whose foundations directly control over $200 billion in assets, grant over $10 billion annually, and shape the narratives that influence who is entitled to live, own, vote and excel in their regions.
$200B Assets
WHO ATTENDS THE SUMMIT
Jim Shelton, CEO, Blue Meridian Partners
"There is a new perspective emerging about how we will build a country designed for inclusive prosperity and belonging that delivers on the promise of liberty and justice for all. The Next Narrative Summit showcases those who are highly effective and is a community of leaders who are working toward our best future."
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56 Funding Organizations including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Omidyar Network, Chan zuckerberg Initiative, 1803 Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Walton Family Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Barr Foundation, Einhorn Collaborative, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, New Commonwealth Fund, Best Buy, NBC Comcast Foundation, Prudential, Joyce Foundation, and The California Endowment.
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31 Associations including Grantmakers in Health, Funders Together to End Homelessness, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, ABFE, Living Cities, America's Promise Alliance, StriveTogether, Solutions Journalism Network, and The Communications Network.
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23 Intermediaries including The Othering and Belonging Institute, Equal Measure, ACT, P150, and the Aspen Institute.
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13 Communications Firms & Outlets including Ad Council, Burness, Hattaway, Spitfire, GMMB, Global Strategies Group, Chronicle of Philanthropy, S.O.B. Productions, and ESPN.
HIGHLIGHTS
How We Invest Billions For Equity and You Could Too
Tonya Allen
President
McKnight Foundation
Have a compelling vision that is solution based that can get you to some level of scale [...]. Start where you are, start where your vision is, make it compelling, and enlist as many people who have the same vision as you and make sure it's not about you [...]. I need you to fund this vision because we all can do this work together.
100%
Found that the plenary session gave them information or ideas that they can use to increase their impact.
Restoring Rights and Cleaning the Slate: Leaders Turning Pain Into Purpose
100%
Found value in the plenary session, with 77% describing it as transformational and 14% considering it very important to the field.
Desmond Meade
President
Florida Restoration Rights Coalition
You don't have to be a billionaire, you don't have to be a politician to have an impact in your community, your state, or even the world. If that guy who was addicted to crack cocaine and homeless and in and out of prison and jail, could be one of the 100 most influential people in the world, then what does that say about me [...]? We could shed all of those negative stereotypes. We could set all those things that try to make us think that we're less than or we're limited in what we can do.
The Next Narrative For Health Equity
The margin of error is high for philanthropy because we can take risks that our other partners don't afford to take. We're meant to create space, to grow and develop. But if it's not consequential, and we don't think it's going to be consequential, why do it?
Allyn Brooks-LaSure
Vice President, Communications
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PREVIOUS AGENDA
This is the third time I’ve participated in an asset-framing training and it was still as relevant and informative as the first time. I’m walking away with greater clarity on how to use asset-framing more strategically in service to our mission.
WALLACE FOUNDATION
Kudos to Prudential for doing the work to reveal how racial equity awareness building can lead to a double bottom line competitive advantage.
LIVING CITIES
The Q&A segment of the session was phenomenal. The audience was so thoughtful and so engaged. The conversation around the power of a new plurality along with the importance of eradicating the zero sum were very impactful.
ACT
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