The Future is Collective Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 2025

Capability Activities Hosting learning communities and building capacityRunning pilot projects: vartaLabs co-create interventions and journeys as pilot programmes and then take them to scale. Examples include: Samjho Toh - The Samvidhan LIVE Dialogues;25 Gender Jagrik: Questioning Masculinity;26 Youth Leaders in Climate Action (initiatives on rewilding and renewables to inspire climate positive communities); and Togetherness Table.27 Codifying a methodology: vartaLeap has codified the youth-centric FLOWING principles for its design processes. Also, where possible and relevant, gamification is used to increase and sustain engagement. Capturing and disseminating learnings: vartaLeap makes extensive use of WhatsApp communities, as well as LinkedIn, to capture and disseminate learnings to the membership and beyond. In addition, vartaLeap presents its messages on national and global platforms, as well as digital platforms. vartaLeap also creates short films and videos to amplify and accelerate their learnings and approach, which are available on YouTube (The 5th Space).28 The collection includes more than 200 film and media products created by ComMutiny – The Youth Collective, the host organization of vartaLeap. Hosting communities of practice: For the public, vartaLeap hosts numerous online and offline convenings, capacity building initiatives and platforms for co-creation. For its membership, vartaLeap hosts bonding nights (themed gatherings), learning days (online and offline cross- learning sessions), informal regional level meetups, narrative building events and Khoj Yatras (one-on-one member visits). Consulting, coaching and training: vartaLeap is a key learning partner to the collective ecosystem in India. It has strategic alignments with cutting-edge consulting firms such as Vyaktitva, Adaptatva to offer courses and capacity building on collectivization and coalition building in the country to foundations, civil society organizations and higher education institutions. Investing in systemic solutionsDeveloping public goods: vartaLeap’s learning resources are available to members of the coalition as public goods that can be adopted and adapted to augment their programming and interventions with young people. Its frameworks and principles are publicly available, and its curricula and games can be made available to non-members on receiving expressions of interest. Co-fundraising for initiatives: The facilitariat works to raise resources for both internal and external initiatives. Coalition members also engage in collaborative fundraising by building common narratives of shared programmes and approaching donors in a consortia, where possible. Collective action activities (continued) 25. A journey co-designed and run by members since 2019 to combat polarization among youth. 26. A programme co-conceptualized by members of the Gender Jagrik Lab in 2020 to shift norms around gender-based violence and women’s leadership. 27. An intergenerational, gamified experience first designed in 2019 to create dialogues in families and communities, later adapted as a well-being initiative todevelop feelings literacy. 28. YouTube. (n.d.). The 5th Space. https://www.youtube.com/user/the5thspace. The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 73