The Roadmap
What if our moment has come? What if we have finally emerged with a solution that future generations will honor for having ended hunger, poverty, war, needless diseases, climate change and everything else that threatens our survival and keeps us from thriving?
What if this solution were extremely difficult (but not impossible); expensive (but we have the funds); would take millions of people (we’ve got them); demand incredibly sophisticated organizing (like how we got to the moon, built nations, cities, businesses)?
What if you became a part of it, a very big part, because it’s an enormous solution?
What if you dedicated your life and resources to it for the well-being of future generation – and frankly, most important of all – for you?
How do you think you would feel? You’re about to find out.
Year One Launches
Mission Control: National & Community Coordinating
Social Current leads as central coordinating entity for all activities with regional cohorts of communities who will help us to create, test, and refine strategies to change the perception and fundamentally redefine the nonprofit sector and its ability to solve social problems. Learn more here.
Marketing & Communications
Build awareness by creating a broader narrative change communications strategy, campaign, a suite of assets (print, billboard, video, publications, etc.), and events inclusive of documentary production development of national and pilot efforts.
Education, Literacy Tools, & Curricula
Leverage existing assets (UnCharitable movie, TED Talk, books, Bold Training) and develop new tools, curriculum, resources, and intellectual assets for use in national and community efforts to educate community leaders, media, donors, higher education, policymakers, and general public.
Policy & Advocacy
Foster the development of federal, state, and local policy and advocacy strategy, tools, training, and resources. Lead and coordinate policy activities and convene partners/coalitions inclusive of support for coordinated policy activities and partner activities.
Media Response and Literacy
Develop a go-to source for social sector media response, national and local communications toolkits, and media training to staff within pilot communities and the broader social sector community.
Continuing to Build Momentum
As the work gets underway, Social Current envisions learning from its experience and that of our pilot communities to effectively plan for future activities. Some of our initial areas of interest currently include:
- Bringing together funders for discussions to develop a unified vision and strategy to support the sector
- Developing resources and tools to support organizations with mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and capital funding
- Exploring the establishment of a venture fund that enables organizations to pitch innovative ideas for potential funding
- Establishing a more efficient system for sharing information about the organizations that make up our sector and the significant contributions they are making within their communities
Stay tuned for updates and consider how you can contribute to the list of future activities that represent the highest priorities as we work to shape a new narrative for the sector.