Mandy Van Deven
Mandy Van Deven is the co-lead of Elemental, a funder learning and grantmaking initiative that cultivates the conditions to resource narrative power. She is also the founder of Both/And Solutions, a global consulting collective that draws on professional expertise and lived experience to provide strategic advice to individual wealth holders and philanthropic institutions, enable organizational and field learning, and design and implement funding initiatives that advance gender, racial, economic, and climate justice; serves on the board of Puentes, a network that builds the narrative infrastructure of social justice movements across Latin America; and is the board secretary at Thousand Currents, which funds grassroots groups transforming food, climate, and the economy in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Output
Articles
- Cultivating the Conditions: Philanthropy’s Role in Fortifying the Infrastructure for Narrative Power | Grantmakers in the Arts
- How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems | Nonprofit Quarterly
- How to Fund Like a Narrative Strategist | Nonprofit Quarterly
- The Myths of Philanthropy (series) | Center for Effective Philanthropy
Podcasts
- Building and Resourcing Narrative Power | Philanthropisms
- The Myths of Philanthropy: Exploring Narratives that Define What is Possible | Grantmakers in the Arts
- The Myths of Philanthropy (series) | Philanthropisms
Books