Funding Principles

Supporting the Conditions for Emergent Futures

• Growing and protecting the capacity to imagine, create and practice alternative futures

• Place-based approaches to systems change

• Growing the capacity of futures change makers

Supporting the conditions and infrastructure that will enable transformational change to emerge. Pou Horizons will engage with groups seeking to integrate new and known (indigenous knowledge) systems that support communities to imagine and practice a more desirable future that prioritises wellbeing for people and place.

Shifting the Power by Changing the Narrative

• Support transformational and counter narratives that centre the voices of those with lived experience

• Growing a more diverse and inclusive pool of storytellers that champion social justice

• Supporting an infrastructure for collective sensemaking

By funding knowledgeholders, storytellers, narrative strategists and communication capacity, we expand the imagination of what is possible. Pou Horizons will seek to support work that centres lived-experience narratives and counter narratives that challenge dominant assumptions. Systems dont change because the story is told once, they change because the story becomes normal.