Spark Innovation and Advance Change
Make a Donation to Support Change Elemental
Today’s challenges call for us to combine our energy, wisdom, and resources to create a just world. When you contribute to Change Elemental, you join a community freeing, combining, and catalyzing the elements of deep change needed to build a world rooted in love, dignity, and justice. Contributions support the Karl Mathiasen Equity & Innovation Fund, established in 1995 to honor our co-founder’s legacy of innovation, catalytic transformation, and social justice.
This fund subsidizes coaching and consulting for networks, organizations, and leaders who could not otherwise afford these services. It also seeds innovative programs (like our Prefiguring Futures Lab) that foster active learning and collaboration among those transforming inequitable systems. By connecting imaginative organizations and movements, the Fund sparks creative solutions for a thriving justice ecosystem.
Together, we are igniting change exponentially more powerful and equitable than we can spark alone. Join us.
All donations are tax-deductible.
Fund Eligibility
We determine eligibility for a subsidy in the exploratory, early stages of an engagement. We prioritize groups working with communities of color and low-income communities, deepening their understanding and practices of the elements critical to advancing a thriving justice ecosystem and pursuing innovative strategies for addressing today’s most entrenched problems. To learn more, please contact us.
Previous Recipients of the Karl Mathiasen Equity & Innovation Fund
In the spirit of abundance and in the face of diminishing resources, we invite you to explore our list of past recipients’ work and give when you are so moved, supporting the organizations shaping our shared liberation.
- Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE)
- Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
- Better Future Project
- BOLD
- CADRE
- Call to Action
- Center for Hope and Healing
- Collective Power for Reproductive Justice (fka Civil Liberties and Public Policy)
- Compass Point
- DC Alliance for Youth Advocates
- Demos
- Dignity and Power Now
- Dignity USA
- Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective
- East LA Community Corporation
- Ekvn-Yefolecv
- Equally Blessed
- FORCE
- Fortunate Families
- The Forum for Youth Investment
- Free the Slaves
- Gender Justice
- Hope House
- Inner Activist
- Jobs to Move America
- Juvenile Law Center
- Kairos Fellowship
- LAANE
- Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE)
- Leadership Conference Education Fund
- Living Cities
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Network of Abortion Funds
- National People’s Action
- Men Can Stop Rape
- Partnership for Working Families
- Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE)
- Social Transformation Project
- The StarLion Collective
- The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
- Rooted in Vibrant Communities (fka Rainer Valley Corps)
- Venture Philanthropy Partners
- WESPAN/National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Wilderness Leadership & Learning
“Because of our work with Change Elemental…we are better at looking for ways to address the tricky dynamics of race and structural racism in our efforts to bring economic justice to the communities we serve. Thank you!”
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
