Findings
Over the course of our learning and grantmaking, we've come across extraordinary research, quotes, images, articles, and insights by people and organizations all over the world. This is a collection of inspirational resources that drive our work.
"This is why we need storytelling. You don’t need to come into physical or electronic contact outside your ideological comfort zone...With storytelling, we can experience the thrill of “the other,” yet remain safe."
Sometimes I walk down the street and I look at all the people I'm passing and I think, damn, all these stories walking right by me.
"A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
CapRadio brought wildly diverse residents face-to-face through intimate story circles to talk about housing, hear one another and envision the way forward. It’s an experiment in deep listening, radical hospitality and bridge building.
