Art & Culture in Action: A Funder Learning Day Centering Narrative Strategy in Climate and Gender Justice
Funder reception in the evening of November 1, full-day program on November 2, 2025
9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (GMT-03:00)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil or virtually
The Global Philanthropy Project (GPP), The Center for Cultural Power, Climate Works, Global Artivism, Nebula Fund, and The Queer Livelihoods Project invite you to a Funder Learning Day to share insights into how narrative and cultural strategies combat climate change and advance gender justice and inclusive democratic societies.
This funder-only gathering presents a unique opportunity to build relationships across diverse funding sectors and amplify support for artists and cultural workers most impacted by global systemic inequalities, with a focus on LGBTQI communities and movements.
Advisory Committee
Who can participate?
Grantmakers, including institutional and individual funders in the fields of arts and culture, narrative strategy, climate change, LGBTQI rights/gender justice, and art dealers and collectors.
At the Funder Learning Day, we’ll examine why investing in narrative, arts, and culture is essential to climate solutions, gender equity, and LGBTQI rights. We will hear how artists and cultural workers are advancing powerful narratives for a more sustainable, gender-just world that can impact climate policy. Discussions will highlight diverse entry points for funders, opportunities for coordination/collaboration, and the critical need to scale up the resourcing of cultural and narrative strategies—particularly those led by artists in the Global South and East—to support a just transition away from fossil fuels.
Key questions we’ll explore together:
- How are global artists and cultural workers advancing narratives that build a more sustainable climate and gender just world, particularly for LGBTQI communities who are disproportionately impacted by anti-rights forces and democratic backsliding?
- What can climate funders and gender justice funders learn from one another about the importance of investing in narrative strategies—especially in arts and culture—as part of climate solutions?
- What are the diverse entry points for funders interested in supporting work at these critical intersections?
- How can funders make a coordinated case for global investment in narrative and cultural strategies in the climate sector, specifically to support a just transition from fossil fuels?
- How can funders better support artists and cultural workers, particularly those in the Global South and East, to shape, advance, and reflect climate and gender just solutions?