Met Group: Housing as Well-Being

Earlier this year, Think Big hosted a conversation with Jennifer Messenger from the Metropolitan Group, where she shared insights on the power and potential of Well-Being Narratives. We’re thrilled to continue the discussion with this article by Jennifer and her colleague Max Friedenwald-Fishman, which explores how framing economic conversations through the lens of well-being can […]

Think Big Brief: Breaking the Doom Loop

How do we present injustices and wrongs in a way that engages people and allows audiences to see that a just, equitable, and joyful future is possible? Think Big teamed up with the Topos Partnership to dig into what the social science research can tell us about how we can help our audiences break out […]

Think Big Report: Belonging In and To America

How do we get to a future America for all of us and for everyone, a nation in which belonging is co-created and power is authentically shared? Over the last year, Topos Partnership has worked in collaboration with the Bridge Project to conduct original research – including in-depth ethnographic interviews – building on the diagnosis of our fractured American […]

Think Big: Abundance in Narrative

We often define abundance as a contrast. Abundance is NOT scarcity, NOT austerity, NOT competition for resources. So, then, what IS abundance? What are some of the core elements behind the term and the idea in narrative? What do these elements look like in practice? What are some of the inherent tensions? What do we […]

Tax Justice Wins in Washington State: A Narrative Perspective

#Taxday2023 was a day to celebrate hard fought victories for tax justice in Washington State. Last month, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the state’s capital gains excise tax, passed in the legislature in 2021. An added plus –  Washington’s Working Families Tax Credit was finally made available to all state tax filers this year. […]