Interdependent Networks

In an environment that demands a blend of collaboration, care, connection, and solidarity, Change Elemental energizes, convenes, and guides networks of changemakers to move intentionally toward love, dignity, and justice together.
With Change Elemental, networks of grassroots leaders, organizers, culture workers, funders, and movement accompanists working across issues, movements, and sectors discover authentic ways to generate power greater than the sum of their parts in service of vision.
We support networks in connecting across divides, overcoming habits that hold them back, and remaking strategies and systems together to ensure the well-being of all. Together, we foster alignment rooted in shared values, a long-term commitment to building trust, and harnessing generative tensions to nurture authentic relationships. By building capacity for nimbleness, flexibility, and adaptability in their culture, structures, roles, and strategies, we support networks in being more efficient and impactful amid uncertain, chaotic terrain.
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- Support networks in their formation and initial structuring, including grounding in shared values, authentic relationship-building, purpose and vision, managing tensions and conflicts, and embracing experimentation as a means to move strategically and systematically forward in emergence, by offering a lightweight structure and approach that facilitates iterative and innovative learning.
- Develop the mindset, skills, and practices of effective movement network leaders operating at the intersection of networks and organizations, including clarifying the relationships among individuals, organizations, funders, and the network.
- Catalyze short- and long-term strategy and capacity for equitable systems change amid complexity and chaos; facilitate ongoing learning and action cycles; and support the sharing of learning with the field.
“Our Women’s Democracy Lab – Future Presidents Project [became] one of the pillar programs and the reason that we could build an alumni program. Without the space to build seriously deep connections and networks, we wouldn’t be able to talk about alumni and how to grow what has been established already.”
Women’s Democracy Lab


