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Co-creators

In partnership with individuals, organizations, networks, and movements, Change Elemental co-creates transformative power and possibility for a just, sustainable, and equitable world.
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Core Team

202-524-9568 lcao@changeelemental.org

Leslie Cao

Consulting Associate
617-323-4860 mleach@ChangeElemental.org

Mark Leach

Senior Advisor
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202.238.7591 alin@ChangeElemental.org

Alison Lin

Senior Consultant
202.238.7587 esloanperry@ChangeElemental.org

Elissa Sloan Perry

Director, Prefiguring Futures
202.238.7582 psysiuk@ChangeElemental.org

Pam Sysiuk

Finance & Operations Manager
202-238-7599 ntokunow@ChangeElemental.org

Naima Yael Tokunow

Design & Communications Manager

Governance Team

Associate Consultants

Partners

Featured Partners

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Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE)

Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE) brings together extraordinary leaders from arts and culture organizations to collectively address racial and geographical imbalance in the arts.

The John W. Mack Movement Building Fellows Program The John W. Mack Movement Building Fellows program aims to strengthen and develop the pipeline of next-generation movement leaders to lead social justice and racial equity work that results in a more just and equitable Southern California region. The John W. Mack Movement Building Fellows program is designed to help emerging leaders: Transform their leadership skills to more effectively respond and adapt to ever-changing conditions; Better articulate their personal leadership stance; Build upon their existing networks through a dynamic shared peer cohort experience; Deepen the alignment between their personal and shared values and their movement work; Learn from current movement leaders about how to build and manage great teams; Identify how they can better connect with more seasoned movement leaders as well as support the development of the next generation of leaders; and Access other leadership development and support resources for themselves and their organizations. roque armenta Organizing Director Power California Janel Bailey Co-Executive Director of Organizing and Programs Los Angeles Black Worker Center Carlos Cervantes Ride Home Program Life Coach Anti-Recidivism Coalition Sophya Chum Associate Director Khmer Girls in Action Carla DePaz Director of Community Organizing East LA Community Corporation Lesli LeGras Morris Director Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project, National Center for Youth Law Anthony Ng Policy Manager, Immigrant Rights Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Los Angeles Cheyenne Reynoso Director of Ocean Protector’s Program Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples Flor Rodriguez Associate Director Miguel Contreras Foundation Jesus Sanchez Founder and Executive Director Gente Organizada David Turner III Coalition Manager Brother Sons Selves Coalition Tracy Zhao Executive Director API Equality—LA John W. MackJohn W. Mack served as a Commissioner on the City of

John W. Mack Fellows of the Weingart Foundation

The John W. Mack Movement Building Fellows Program is designed to support next-generation movement leaders to advance social justice and racial equity work that will result in a more just and equitable Southern California. Supported by the Weingart Foundation with Change Elemental consultants and others, the program cultivates adaptive leadership, cohort-based learning, and support for staff well-being, based on a dynamic and systems perspective of leadership.

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Building Movement Project

 The Building Movement Project develops research, tools, training materials, and opportunities for partnership that bolster nonprofit organizations’ ability to support the voice and power of the people they serve.
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Panta Rhea

Panta Rhea’s mission is to catalyze a just and sustainable world through food sovereignty, people-powered systems change, and grassroots resilience around the globe.

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CompassPoint

 Compass Point believes in the power of creating a collective vision for a liberated world free of oppression—a more just world cannot exist without having the courage to first imagine it. Compass Point builds structures, cultural practices, business strategies, and approaches to organizational change that bring them, and their partners, closer to liberation.
  • 350.org
  • A Better Balance
  • ACLU Connecticut
  • ACLU of Washington
  • AFL-CIO
  • Advance Native Political Leadership
  • Allies for Children
  • American Federation of Teachers
  • Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles
  • Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
  • Arabella Advisors
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice
  • Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence
  • Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC)
  • Baltimore’s Promise
  • Beespace
  • Better Future Project
  • Blackbird
  • Boston University School of Public Health
  • Building Movement Project
  • CODE2040
  • California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
  • California Humaniities
  • California Long Term Care Education Center
  • Call To Action
  • Campaign for Black Male Achievement
  • Canadian Environmental Grantmakers
  • Center for Cultural Innovation
  • Center for Hope and Healing
  • Center for Social Innovation
  • Center for Whole Communities
  • Center for Women’s Global Leadership
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Civil Liberties and Public Policy Project
  • Clery Center
  • Coalition for Abortion Access and Reproductive Equity (CAARE)
  • Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)
  • Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment Project
  • CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
  • Constitutional Accountability Center
  • CorStone
  • Cultivating Leadership
  • Democracy Fund
  • Democracy Funders Collaborative Census 2020
  • Demos
  • Dignity and Power Now
  • Dogwood Alliance
  • East LA Community Corporation
  • Educational Alliance
  • Elwood Union Free School District
  • Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
  • Episcopal City Mission
  • Equal Access International
  • Equitable Evaluation
  • Equity in the Center
  • Eugene and Agnes E Meyer Foundation
  • Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • Expose Facts – WHISPER
  • FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture
  • FSG
  • Family Defense Center
  • Ford Foundation
  • Forum for the Future US
  • Free the Slaves
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Front Range Economic Strategy Center
  • Fund for Global Human Rights
  • GEO
  • Gender Justice
  • General Service Foundation
  • Generative Somatics
  • Georgetown Univesity
  • Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants & Refugees (GCIR)
  • Greenpeace
  • Groundswell Fund
  • HEAL Food Alliance
  • Hewlett Foundation
  • Hispanics in Philanthropy
  • Hollaback!
  • Human Rights Funders Network/Proteus
  • IAM Assoc/Burns Inst/Inst for Juvenile Justice, Equity & Fairness
  • Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy
  • Inner Activist
  • Interaction Institute for Social Change
  • International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
  • Iowa Council of Foundations
  • James Irvine Foundation
  • Jhpiego Corporation
  • Jobs to Move America
  • Jobs with Justice
  • Justice Funders
  • Juvenile Law Center
  • Kairos Fellowship
  • Land Trust Alliance
  • Landesa
  • Leadership Learning Community
  • Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE)
  • Living Cities
  • Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
  • Marguerite Casey Foundation
  • Martha’s Table
  • Merck Family Fund
  • Mergerwatch Project
  • Minnesota Education Equity Partnership
  • Move to End Violence
  • Movement Strategy Center
  • Movement Tapestries
  • Ms. Foundation for Women
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation
  • National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
  • National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies
  • National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • National Institute for Reproductive Health
  • National LGBTQ Task Force
  • National Network of Abortion Funds
  • National Women’s Health Network
  • National Women’s Law Center
  • Netcentric Campaigns
  • New Economy Coalition
  • Newark Educational Success Board
  • On the Move (Voices Youth Center)
  • Panorama Global
  • Panta Rhea Fund
  • Partnership for Working Families
  • Pico CA Network
  • Pretrial Justice Institute
  • Prosperity Now (formerly Corporation for Enterprise Development)
  • Proteus Fund
  • Raikes Foundation
  • Regenerative Finance
  • Reproductive Health Technologies Project
  • Resonance Network
  • Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
  • Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Rockwood Leadership Institute
  • Rooted in Vibrant Communities
  • Rotary Charities
  • Ruderman Family Foundation
  • Safety Pin Box
  • Save the Children-International Programs
  • Service Employees International Union
  • Social Transformation Project
  • Solidago Foundation
  • StarLions Collective
  • Strong Field Project: Thought Innovation Lab
  • Sum of Us
  • The Anne E Casey Foundation
  • The Center for Popular Democracy
  • The Center for Racial Justice in Education
  • The Children’s Partnership
  • The Compton Foundation
  • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • The Hidden Leaf Foundation
  • The Kresge Foundation
  • The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • The Meyer Foundation
  • The Moriah Fund
  • The Policy Academies
  • The Whitman Institute
  • Third Sector New England
  • Thousand Currents
  • Tides Center/Leaderstrust
  • USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE)
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
  • United Jewish Appeal – NY
  • United States Breastfeeding Committee
  • University of California at Irvine Sustainability Initiative
  • University of California- Healthforce Center
  • University of California- School of Dentistry
  • Urban Institute
  • Wallace Global Fund
  • Wellstone Action
  • Wilderness Leadership & Learning
  • Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
  • Women’s Economic, Social & Political Action Network
  • Women’s Foundation of Mississippi
  • Workers Defense Project

Co-create With Us

At Change Elemental, we believe changemakers can co-create what is needed to spark transformative, equitable change.

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