Field Building

P4NE’s field building work aims to grow and strengthen the new economy ecosystem, supporting people and organisations to find greater alignment, deepen their interdependence and build collective power.

At its simplest, our field-building work creates connection; supporting people to find coherence in the way they work together and what they are working for. Coherence (created in shared narratives, in how different players work, or what they count as success and invest in) can create leverage – both in terms of attracting more resources to new economy work and in ensuring the field has its greatest possible influence.

Our Aims

We work alongside our partners, using our curation and convening power, networks and resources to:

Strengthen the new economy ecosystem, understanding and supporting the shared needs of the field and strengthening the ‘connective tissue’ between organisations and actors.
Mobilise resources, introducing new funders to the field and encouraging existing funders to keep looking to the edges of new thinking and practice.
Grow the field, encouraging new and expanding lines to be drawn around who and what is part of it, and building bridges with other social and ecological movements.
Enable alignment, coherence and collaboration as the new economy field grows and changes, supporting others to situate themselves within a wider ecosystem, valuing different routes to change and unlocking collective power.

When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence have the capacity to shift the entire system.

Ilya Prigogine, complexity scientist

You can find curated content, events and other initiatives that make up this work in our Monthly Roundup, News and Events and Stories pages. If you’re curious about how our field-building approach first developed, you can read reflections and plans written by the team following P4NE’s first in-person Gathering.

Explore our work

Gatherings: annual convening

Each year, we resource and host a global gathering for people committed to bringing about economic systems change. It’s a key opportunity for hundreds of thought leaders, changemakers, funders, and others working across the new economy field and its intersecting movements to come together, share thinking and practice and build collective power.

2024's Gathering

Fertile Ground: Europe's New Economy Ecosystem

Published in October 2025, Fertile Ground is the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of this diverse and growing field to date. Commissioned by Partners for a New Economy and authored by Metabolic, the study maps and draws insights from 735 organisations across 35 countries that are actively working to transform our economic system to meet the needs of people and planet.

Read the publication

It feels Possible Now: audio recording

What would a new economy that serves the future be, look and feel like? Who must be part of this new economy, and of making it happen? In this audio encounter co-created by New Constellations, you’ll hear dreams and reflections from our partners, painting a collective picture of a new economy that allows all people and nature to flourish, and how we might start building it.

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Leaders Academy

The New Economy Leaders Academy is a collaboration between Partners for a New Economy, Common Purpose, and The Human Edge. A 10-month funded leadership development and mentorship programme, the Academy aims to strengthen the capacity of experienced and emerging leaders to work across generations, sectors and divides.

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Narrative Lab

A partnership with Culture Hack Labs, the New Economies Narrative Lab brings a pioneering methodology for narrative-led systems change to the global new economy ecosystem. In 2024, we ran the first Lab bringing together 50 new economy changemakers from 21 countries to learn and apply CHL’s five-phase method to their work.

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Clusters of collaboration

We support the development of thematic collaborations between partners, where there is need for stronger alignment, coordination, or joint working across organisations and sectors. Sparked by the Mission Labs we ran in 2023, collaborations have focused on: monetary policy and financial supervision, economics education and curriculum change, political strategy across Europe, public and private finance.

Mission Labs