Case Studies
Further Point of View (POV) Examples
| Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Examining the Narrative Landscape for Cultural Evolution (2024). Full narrative report; CHL Issue |
As a… global coalition of activists, writers, researchers, and organizers working within the Transition Resource Circle (TRC). Our mission is to challenge extractive economic and philanthropic models while supporting postcapitalist alternatives. We aim to help foundations, grantees, and the public rethink the role of capital—shifting from wealth accumulation to wealth liberation in service to life.
We see that… The current economic and political system has led to a global polycrisis—ecological collapse, rising authoritarianism, systemic racism, extreme inequality, and deepening poverty. Wealth remains concentrated in the hands of the top 1%, perpetuating structural injustice. Philanthropy operates as a paradox: it extracts wealth through capitalism while positioning itself as a solution, ultimately reinforcing the very systems it claims to address. A fundamental transformation is needed—one that moves beyond philanthropy as a tool of power and toward the redistribution of resources in ways that dismantle exploitative structures.
Therefore we want to… Contribute to a deep ontological shift in institutional philanthropy—challenging private ownership, transactional funding models, and hierarchical decision-making. We aim to center relationality, collective stewardship, and post-capitalist frameworks, including commons-based funding, cooperative economies, and alternative governance models. By promoting anti-colonial, post-anthropocentric, and community-led approaches, we seek to redefine wealth and resource management as a shared responsibility rather than a mechanism of control.
To achieve this we must… Listen to the evolving narrative landscape to guide the Transition Resource Circle’s work in shaping discourse. By conducting research and crafting strategic interventions—such as op-eds, thought leadership, and storytelling—we will create pathways for shifting the public and philanthropic conversation toward transformative futures.
| Beyond the Carbon Fixation Pathways to Regenerative Futures: Narrative Analysis (2025). Full narrative report; CHL Issue |
As a… group of narrative practitioners and actors supporting land regenerative projects,
We see that… while land is a critical lever in the transition away from anthropocentric capitalist systems there is a lack of shared frameworks of understanding and coherence of underlying logics that are needed to build the momentum to enable this transition. Movements, organizations and funders at the forefront of shifting how we relate to land are siloed and are not cross-pollinating.
Therefore we want to… support the ecosystem of actors working on land-based issues and drive systems-level change by coalescing their tools, strategies, and organizing capacities and developing shared narratives around the intention of liberating land from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism. By doing so, we can foster a cultural context rooted in radical relationality, making it possible to rematriate and regenerate land and ecosystems on a large scale.
To achieve this, we must:
- Identify and consult key actors to understand the narrative space, identify points of collective action and articulate a transition pathway for the movement.
- Create an ecosystem map to organize the different actors and their relationships identifying points of collective action to serve as a navigational tool.