Summary
The worldview stack sorts the work that shapes how people see the world into five layers, “from the fastest and most measurable down to the slowest and most foundational”. It comes from Alex Evans, in a 2026 essay on funding. From the top: media and strategic communications; culture and entertainment; people and pipelines; relational organising; and formative institutions such as congregations and unions.
For Evans, the “upper layers work on what we think”; the “lower layers work on who we are”. People join those rather than watch them, and they make the upper layers stick. They’re also slowest to show results, which, he argues, is why progressive funders shy away.
Rationale
Part 2 lists “the institutions you engage with” and “the TV you binge” among what shapes deep dispositions. Evans’s stack holds both, and adds the funder’s question of which layers get paid for.