Think Big: A Narrative Learning Community
Photo: Arise Legislative Day, held Feb. 25, 2020 at the Alabama State House in Montgomery. Photo courtesy of Alabama Arise.
Create a space to consider big ideas
Foster peer-to-peer learning and sharing
Identify unanswered strategic research questions
Provide a resource for lessons learned
Think Big: A Narrative Learning Community
Photo: Arise Legislative Day, held Feb. 25, 2020 at the Alabama State House in Montgomery.
Guided by a team of state and national advisors, this two-year long project aims to:
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Create a space to consider big ideas
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Foster peer-to-peer learning and sharing
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Identify unanswered strategic research questions
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Provide a resource for lessons learned
Our Story
Think Big got its start with a simple idea – can a range of communicators at local, state and national levels, co-create powerful, unified strategies around big ideas or challenges that can be deployed across issue silos?
With a grant from the Omidyar Network, the Topos Partnership and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities launched a six-month pilot learning community in 2021 designed to develop Anti-Austerity narratives. Quickly, members of the learning community insisted on expanding the scope. They wanted a space to think big and aspirationally, to set aside the short-term battles and consider ways to leverage today’s work for tomorrow’s bigger wins.
In early 2022, we re-launched as the Think Big Learning Community, and have grown to over 1,000 members, with representatives in nearly every state and across multiple issue domains. We have provided a platform for innovative narratives on the economy, democracy, race, civic engagement and more. And, through the encouragement of our rural and Southern members, we’ve launched a companion effort, The Southern Mindshift Project.
The Think Big Narrative Learning Community is launching as its own nonprofit in 2024. Thanks to the Learning Community and the work we’ve done together over the last two years, and with the foundational support of the Omidyar Network, Think Big is poised to grow to better meet the needs of our movement and strengthen our narrative ecosystem.
Stay tuned!
Join Us
The Learning Community is open to all advocates and stakeholders who want to think big, learn together, and share strategies to build the America we want and need.
For more information, contact: team@thinkbigalliance.org