2026-06-11T14:51:16-07:00 2025-07-31 811489821 HEALY AND ASSOCIATES 1200 CONCORD AVE STE 250 CONCORD CA 94520 990 2024-08-01 201897585 Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy SMAR 4752420002 1301 N Broadway STE 32649 Los Angeles CA 90012 Angus Maguire Board President 2026-06-11 true true Hasina Sabrina Chowdhury P03013259 9256030800 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Angus Maguire 1301 N Broadway STE 32649 Los Angeles CA 90012 2017745 false X www.storybasedstrategy.org X 2004 VT SMARTMEME, INC. DBA CENTER FOR STORY-BASED STRATEGY (CSS) CULTIVATES IMAGINATION SPACES WHERE STORY, GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZING, AND DEMOCRACY ARE INTERWOVEN STRATEGIES TO BUILD POWER. 6 6 12 0 3967578 1929476 230579 56474 19879 21183 120 10612 4218156 2017745 211697 662949 0 1096189 1176525 0 100554 728513 1038750 2036399 2878224 2181757 -860479 5309193 4177120 309404 233917 4999789 3943203 X SMARTMEME INC. DBA CENTER FOR STORY-BASED STRATEGY ("CSS") IS A NATIONAL STRATEGY CENTER DEDICATED TO HARNESSING THE POWER OF NARRATIVE FOR MOVEMENT BUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE. CSS PROVIDES SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE LEADERS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ALLIANCES THE STRATEGIC SUPPORT TO REFRAME ISSUES AND WIN CRITICAL CAMPAIGNS. WE USE STORY-BASED APPROACHES TO AMPLIFY THE IMPACT OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, TO COMMUNICATE TRANSFORMATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND TO RE-IMAGINE SOCIAL CHANGE STRATEGY. THROUGH TRAINING AND CONSULTING, WEVE SUPPORTED OVER 300 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND 6,000 INDIVIDUAL CHANGE AGENTS. true true 2476917 662949 56474 Public Trainings: CSS hosted multiple introductory training sessions to equip organizations with Story-Based Strategy (SBS) methods and support them in building long-term capacity for narrative strategy. Additionally, CSS planned a four-day, in-person training session, set for October 2025, bringing together 30 participants from different organizations. Partnerships: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: CSS brought together a one-year cohort alongside Frameworks to shift mindsets around care while addressing individualism and deservingness. The cohort also aimed to convene collaborative learning spaces throughout the year to foster co-creation, relationship-building, and shared learning across six different organizations and build their capacity for narrative strategy. Partnerships: Healthy & Safe Schools: In the second year of a two-year initiative, CSS implemented a structured, multi-phase framework designed to support a cohort of organizations in the adoption and application of SBS methodologies. This initiative facilitated the development of a cohesive meta-narrative and integrated long-term communication strategies to strengthen campaign effectiveness and advance community capacity of participating organizations working to promote and grow healthy schools. Partnerships (Custom): Throughout the year, we support a variety of community-based organizations and collaborative initiatives by training groups in SBS tools to strengthen leadership, capacity, and facilitate effective planning and decision-making processes. Through partnerships, workshops, strategy sessions, and technical assistance, we help organizations utilize narrative strategy to develop shared visions, align goals, and enhance accountability to the communities they serve. . RWJF: Developed curriculum and underlying structure for a 1-year cohort program with six organizations on narrative strategy & shifting mindsets. TCE Healthy & Safe Schools: Continued to provide cohort trainings, individualized coaching, in-person convenings and conducted new field research through partnering with Frameshift Public Trainings: Successfully completed 4 annual Intro Trainings and planned our annual 5-day Advanced Training (held in October 2025) while implementing new tools and innovating the 5-day structure to find new best practices.Custom Trainings: Deepened partnership and provided custom coaching with several collaborating organizations including the Southwest Organizing Project, Rogue Climate and over 20 EPA grantees. Network: Continued to hold spaces to build a network of SBS practitioners and began planning a new network gathering called Radical Imagination Retreat to run in 2026. 2476917 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false true false false true true false false false false false false true false true false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false true 35 0 true 12 true false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA VT X X X X The Organization 4752420002 1301 N Broadway STE 32649 Los Angeles CA 90012 Nayantara Sen Executive Dir. 32.00 0.00 X 155929 0 0 Reuben Tihi Hayslett Interim ED 2.00 0.00 X 47086 0 0 Jamila Brown Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 41700 0 0 Angus Maguire President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Seng So Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Iva Torres Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kedar Reddy Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Rachel Weidinger Board Member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 244715 1 false true false 0 1929476 1929476 Consulting contracts 541610 13041 13041 Training and event fees 541610 43433 43433 56474 21183 21183 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS 900099 10612 10612 10612 2017745 67086 21183 662949 662949 0 0 0 179655 142497 25193 11965 0 843852 669318 118335 56199 0 73852 59577 8924 5351 79166 71618 1000 6548 65060 56878 6444 1738 14887 14887 60224 2300 57924 0 0 0 236060 204231 24898 6931 0 2705 1266 1378 61 24440 20036 2841 1563 0 28889 23215 3702 1972 103140 100490 2473 177 0 62796 49209 9876 3711 1965 1965 0 0 11964 8142 3072 750 Program associates 232005 232005 Faciltators and trainers 114388 114388 Payroll Processing Fees 27436 19287 6359 1790 Dues and subscriptions 26923 18050 8147 726 25868 21461 3335 1072 2878224 2476917 300753 100554 1726900 1855383 975774 993417 2552648 1255407 0 0 0 0 0 7954 20196 0 0 0 0 0 45917 52717 5309193 4177120 231713 176786 11000 77691 46131 309404 233917 X 3122289 2291083 1877500 1652120 4999789 3943203 5309193 4177120 -860479 -196107 X false true X true false X 1301714 1590278 1365670 3967578 1929476 10154716 677386 375542 293775 230579 56474 1633756 0 0 0 1979100 1965820 1659445 4198157 1985950 11788472 0 187 86462 779296 989605 1309292 3164842 187 86462 779296 989605 1309292 3164842 8623630 10033 19879 21183 51095 0 10033 19879 21183 51095 0 2199 2795 8899 120 10612 24625 1981299 1968615 1678377 4218156 2017745 11864192 0.72690 0.77420 0.00430 0.00300 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Sabbatical Payable 46131 46131 2020245 2500 2500 2017745 2017745 2880724 2500 2500 2878224 2878224 true Mexico 0 1 Trainings Remote Employee 129703 1 1 129703 129703 false false false false false false Part I, Line 3f - Investments and Expenditures We have one employee working remotely on trainings in Mexico, employed through the EOR DEEL. Total cost was $129,703. true Black Organizing Project 1035 West Grand Avenue Oakland CA 94607 464578588 35000 0 Re-grants Center for Policy Initiatives 2820 Camino del Rio S 314 San Diego CA 92108 330824881 60000 0 Re-grants Central Valley Movement Build 3810 Broadway Sacramento CA 95817 920464522 35000 0 Re-grants Gender & Sexualities Alliance 548 Market St Suite 53568 San Francisco CA 94104 205367752 35000 0 Re-grants Social & Environmental Entrep 23564 Calabasas Road 201 Calabasas CA 91302 954116679 60000 0 Re-grants The Frameworks Institute 1333 H Street NW Suite 700 West Washington DC 20005 710891642 437949 0 Re-grants 6 0 X X false false false false false false false false false Nayantara Sen Executive Dir. 155929 155929 Nayantara Sen Former ED 28305 Contractor false Angus Maguire President 480 Training false Jamila Brown Vice President 119700 Cohort Program false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Angus Maguire- $480Contract: Research & Tech WritingJamila Brown- $119,700.00Contract: Cohort Program Director - TCE Police Free SchoolsNayantara Sen- $28,305.00Contractor: RWJF Program Manager; Contractor: consulting hours for new ED during transition Form 990, Part III, Line 2 A restricted grant to lead a cohort alongside Frameworks (funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Form 990, Part III, Line 3 We wrapped up the CommOp program as the funding was closing down (paragraph about this program in prior year 990). Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The tax return is prepared by an outside accounting firm. After completion of said returns, the organization is sent a draft of the tax returns to be reviewed and examined. The organization makes copies of the returns and distributes to those individuals charged with governance. Those individuals at that time can review and if applicable discuss any line items in the return with the accountant who has prepared the return. If all items are found to be acceptable, an authorization is signed and provided to authorize the outside accounting firm to process, sign and provide copies of the returns to be filed (paper or electronically) with the designated governmental agencies. The tax returns are then signed by the organization, stamped and mailed with certified return receipt or the signed form 8879 is provided to the outside accounting firm allowing electronic filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Employees and Board members of the organization are required to put in writing their conflicting interests when they first become an employee or Board member; then these are reviewed and updated annually. Annual Declarations of Conflict of Interest are distributed and signed by the CSS Board of Directors at the beginning of each Fiscal Year. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The organization determines the compensation of key employees, including the Executive Director (or CEO/top management official), by reviewing market data and comparable compensation levels for similar positions at organizations of comparable size, budget, and mission and taking into account the organizations financial data. This includes researching publicly available data from nonprofit compensation surveys, Form 990 filings of peer organizations, and other relevant industry benchmarks. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Federal Tax Returns are available at guidestar.org & ProPublica. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents are available for public inspection at the principal place of business.The conflict of interest policy and the organization's financial statements are available upon request.