2024: our 15th year
OUR VISION
We envision a united, interconnected humanity that lives in harmony with Mother Earth and all of our fellow inhabitants. We believe that when we change the story, we change everything.
OUR MISSION
We are a global community of storytellers who care about protecting Mother Earth through revolutionary, ethical storytelling. We believe that sharing stories about decolonized and Indigenized climate change mitigation, science and conservation, food security and other intersecting issues bring us closer to co-liberation by shifting towards imaginative spaces and possibilities reflecting our vision. We do this through our Revolutionary Storyteller Grant, Micro-Grants, Protectors of the Sacred initiative, and other grant making and capacity-building programs. We also inspire new generations of storytellers through our acclaimed Storytelling School programs, Storytelling for Change Series & Podcast, annual events, and other initiatives and resources. We also firmly uphold the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and UNDRIP, and prioritize capacity-building for community-based storytellers and community-led initiatives within our work.
OUR Values
We are committed to:
Ethics: We strive towards ethical literacy in our work. See our code of ethics.
Decolonization: In acknowledging the constraints and contradictions of operating within a capitalist framework, we are committed to striving towards decolonizing all aspects of our work and the way we operate as an organization.
Intentional Impact: Supporting storytelling geared towards tangible and regenerative change based on local community wants and needs. We believe developing collaborative, reciprocal relationships with our stakeholders is an integral part of the work we do.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity: Respecting and celebrating what makes us all unique and creating environments that are inclusive of those with diverse lived experience. We believe that peace and unity can only come through justice and equity.
Intersectionality: Striving towards an intersectional lens in the work we do, understanding we each carry unique positionalities that support collective liberation, and that the most interesting stories that take us there involve intersecting topics and issues.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We acknowledge that the majority of our administrative work takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) on the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinaabeg, including the Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and that this land is host to many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. We are also within the Dish with One Spoon Treaty, which requires responsibility of those who use the land to share it peaceably and care for it. We acknowledge and reflect on this responsibility and recognize the efforts of the host nations in maintaining the land since time immemorial. We invite you to reflect on whose land you are living and working on as well.
OUR IMPACT
To date we have supported over 20 Revolutionary Storyteller Grantees. We have distributed over 100 Scholarships and 20 Micro-Grants.
To date we have completed 130 Assignments in 55 countries, addressing all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals / United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). We have nearly 1000 members in countries all over the world, and our directory of photographers is available to editors and publishers. We have accrued over 1 million views on our video channels.
Our Members, Storytelling School participants and Revolutionary Storyteller Grantees have created tangible change all over the world. Some highlights include conserving 10 hectares of rainforest in Sumatra, supported reforestation efforts by planting hundreds of trees, sent several equity-seeking girls to school in India, helped human trafficking survivors in Kenya, and assisted with establishing a marine protection area in Mozambique.
Visit our Media Centre for press releases and publications.
PWB is the proud winner of the 2018 Thrive Award for Top Workplaces Where Employees Thrive
"The Thrive Award recognizes Top Workplaces Where Employees Thrive, aimed at organizations that have created a healthy, productive and creative workspace by establishing a culture built on collaborative dialogue, trust, clear outcomes, tolerance and teamwork."
OUR supporters
We kindly thank our supporters for helping us make more of an impact each year, with a special thanks to Aēsop and On the Edge Foundations.
