New Stories

We deepened our capacities for working with people and communities who recognize that this is a time for profound, transformative change. As climate, social, and economic disruptions intensify across the u.s. And around the world, newstories is accompanying those who are ready to reimagine and regenerate in the face of adversity. We have worked with others to cocreate a bioregional community regeneration collaboratory in northern california and have started to lay the groundwork for a new network of bioregional community regeneration collaboratories. Additionally we developed an entirely new newstories website to share principles, practices and stories about how to restory for regenerative futures. A new great transition stories website is under development as well, with an expected launch in 2025. D learning. Program highlights in this area: 1. Great transition stories: we are preparing to launch a fully redesigned great transition stories website. In the midst of today's polycrisis, this platform will offer a vital reminder: humanity has long held the capacity to transform hardship into hope, and to birth possibility from adversity. 2. Regenerative response bioregional community collaboration networks: newstories continues to walk alongside communities recovering from wildfires and other disasters. In the past year, this included work in northern california, british columbia, brazil, japan, and eastern washington. We are also co-developing a new model-fire-affected communities collaboratories-starting in northern california, with plans to expand to other regions.

We support a diverse array of fiscally sponsored programs-each uniquely engaged in the work of re-storying their communities. From cultivating youth leadership in lebanon to serving as learning partners with global initiatives like warriors without weapons and the berkana exchange, our collaborations span a wide network of transformative efforts. We work alongside kufunda learning village in zimbabwe and compassion games international in the u.s., helping these partners deepen their impact and engage others in building healthy, resilient, and regenerative futures.