Working Across Issues
In addition to our work on social issues, we have a set of high-level, multi-year projects through which we examine mindsets and framing across issue areas. These projects allow us to understand and advise on concepts that are important for everyone using framing, narratives, and communications for social change. Below, you can learn more about these projects and explore the associated research and resources.
Key Initiatives
Culture Change Project
The Culture Change Project is a multi-year investigation into American culture. Is it changing? Are our patterns in thinking shifting in the midst of so much social and political upheaval? How can cultural shifts inform how progressives communicate about important issues?
Key Initiatives
Moving Mindsets Innovation Lab
The Moving Mindsets Innovation Lab exists to challenge and shift the cultural ideas that hold structural racism and health inequity in place. How we understand gender, who we believe deserves care, and what we think families look like shapes policy, determines who gets support, and decides who bears the cost when systems fail.
Key Initiatives
Work/Shift
WorkShift is a multi-year initiative designed to change the narrative on work and labor. By understanding how Americans currently think about work—and mobilizing effective framing strategies—we can build support for the structural changes and redistribution of power needed for more just and equitable labor systems.
Key Initiatives
Measuring Early Childhood Mindsets in Australia
Commencing in 2025, FrameWorks is leading a 4-year project exploring how Australians think about the early years and testing how those working to support children and families can shift Australian mindsets to increase demand for policy reform. The work is funded by the Minderoo Foundation.
Key Initiatives
Moving Mindsets
Through this initiative, we examine the relationship between narratives, mindsets, culture, and public policy—providing a playbook for big shifts in thinking that can catalyze tangible social change.