Just Community
We bring people together to build community and change exclusionary narratives around poverty and incarceration.
We coordinate workshops that bring people together to share knowledge and build capacity. We also run a storytelling series for impacted people to develop the tools to resist exclusionary narratives.
We coordinate a network of values-aligned people and organizations to build connections and trust across multiple interest and identity groups. The network offers support with professional development and facilitating peer-to-peer connections.
We engage in strategic communications to change narratives and expand the reach of our work.
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What is Narrative Change?
At Community Spring, we build economic stability and collective power alongside impacted community members through our Just Income and Just Power programs. While this work creates essential pathways to stability and agency, we recognize that lasting change requires more than policy shifts alone.
Without transforming deeply held cultural narratives, even the most progressive policies can be undermined or reversed. This understanding drives our commitment to narrative change work, which strengthens and sustains our community's power.
Workshops
Narrative Change Workshops
We resist harmful narratives about formerly incarcerated people and their families through community workshops. We invite community members who have been impacted by incarceration and poverty to share their experiences and hone their narratives.
We create all of our workshops with impacted community members, building stronger connections, sharing local knowledge, and strengthening our collective ability to envision the world we are working to create through narrative.
Technical Workshops for Change Making
We offer a series of workshops that build technical skills for grassroots change makers. Examples of the type of workshops we offer:
Digital communications such as Canva
How to start a nonprofit
Program development and evaluation
Persuasive writing such as op-eds
Building a strategy for engaging with elective officials
Network
We coordinate a network of values-aligned people and organizations to build connections and trust across multiple interest and identity groups.
This includes affinity groups for Black artists and activists, fellowship alumni, social entrepreneurs, and guaranteed income recipients.
The network builds support for grassroots change makers with professional development and peer-to-peer connections.
Communications
We engage in strategic communications to change narratives and expand the reach of our work.
We utilize social media, video, digital ads, blogs, written publications, bus ads, and earned media to build awareness and change minds.
