This field companion to The Storytellers’ Guide to Changing Our World 2.0 is intended to make creating an abundance of impact stories—a culture surge, if you will—easier. It is especially written for artists and organizers who want to collaborate in telling engaging impact stories in any media to make their neighborhood, state, country, or planet a better place.

Culture Surge is evolving the Storytellers' Guide to serve as a tool for artists and organizers to coordinate a core story with threads our communities to action, specifically for the midterms.

2020 was a year of rising to the occasion: one in which ViacomCBS had to demonstrate who we are as a company and how we show up for our employees, audiences, communities and partners around the world. We faced one of the worst health crises in a generation and a racial reckoning that continues to reverberate across our society.