Change Elemental

? Beyond survival, there is?Black joy. There is?dreaming. There is?play. ? As we move from Black History Month into?Black Futures Month, we uplift the radical, world-shaping power of Black imagination. What does it mean to not just survive but?thrive? To center?pleasure, rest, and play?as essential to our collective liberation? Read more on our blog about how Black joy is not just resistance—it’s a blueprint for the future we are building. ?? ?? https://lnkd.in/g-VgStNj #BlackFuturesMonth #BlackJoy #DreamingBeyondSurvival

CoLab Diversity and Decolonization Campaign ?? SYSTEMS CHANGE & DEEP EQUITY: Pathways Toward Sustainable Impact, Beyond “Eureka!,” Unawareness & Unwitting Harm. This monograph illuminates essential dimensions of approaches to Systems Change, which are intimately connected with Deep Equity. It also offers ideas about how to bring racial — and other intersecting aspects of equity — more deeply and centrally into your systems change work. Offered by?Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.?of?Movement Tapestries?and?Mark Leach?of?Change Elemental. Download the monograph from the Network Weaver website here: https://lnkd.in/ggwBZwAj #SystemsChange #DeepEquity #SustainableImpact #RacialEquity

??? How do we measure growth in a way that honors our interconnectedness? In "Returning to Sacred Reciprocity: Reflections on Learning & Evaluation,"?Aja Couchois Duncan?explores learning evaluation as more than metrics—it's a relational practice, a way to deepen accountability and repair. Dive into how centering reciprocity can transform not just what we measure but how we learn and evolve together. ?? https://lnkd.in/g7kZcRHT #SacredReciprocity?#LearningAndEvaluation

In "Prefiguring a Future We Want," Elissa Sloan Perry explores how we can embody justice, care, and transformation today while co-creating the futures we long for. What does it take to start building a more just and whole world now? Read the full article in Stanford Social Innovation Review's latest supplement. #PrefiguringFutures #TransformativeChange #Imagination https://lnkd.in/gsqQXzd8

?? Change begins with the bold dreams we nurture today. The Karl Mathiasen Equity & Innovation Fund invests in our partners and programs, reimagining what’s possible and ensuring they have the resources to turn vision into action. This year, the Fund will support our work with Women’s Democracy Lab (WDL) and other initiatives, advancing innovative approaches to equity and transformation. The Fund helps sustain the deep dreaming, planning, and action needed to build a more just future.??? Join us in resourcing this essential work. Make a donation that’s meaningful to you! ??https://lnkd.in/gMgQgETa

Who imagines what’s next? Elissa Sloan Perry, head of the Prefiguring Futures Lab at Change Elemental, outlines what’s needed to support imagination and to make it possible to take risk, especially for marginalized individuals: “Given our systems of oppression and othering, the very people who are most often resourced to imagine a way out of social problems such as poverty, homelessness, racism, and transphobia are often not the most affected and thus the least likely to imagine a true solution. We often get new ways for the relative few to access settler-colonialist and capitalist ‘solutions,’ instead of true liberation whereby people and the planet can exist in mutually accountable, interdependent well-being.” This essay on building social imagination is part of a larger series of articles that illuminates practices for new pathways to a better tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/gnprbwhA

Who imagines what’s next? Elissa Sloan Perry, head of the Prefiguring Futures Lab at Change Elemental, outlines what’s needed to support imagination and to make it possible to take risk, especially for marginalized individuals: “Given our systems of oppression and othering, the very people who are most often resourced to imagine a way out of social problems such as poverty, homelessness, racism, and transphobia are often not the most affected and thus the least likely to imagine a true solution. We often get new ways for the relative few to access settler-colonialist and capitalist ‘solutions,’ instead of true liberation whereby people and the planet can exist in mutually accountable, interdependent well-being.” This essay on building social imagination is part of a larger series of articles that illuminates practices for new pathways to a better tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/gnprbwhA

??? Podcast episode alert! ??? Featured in the Leadership Learning Community magazine "HOME is Where the HEART is," Elissa Sloan Perry and Kharyshi Wiginton from the Center for Third World Organizing explore transformative conversations on the "Ubuntu: A Living Liberation Podcast." Join them as they discuss collective liberation, community power, and reimagining justice. ???? Check out the episode: https://lnkd.in/gj7WrBJD and magazine: https://lnkd.in/gWxmYKVE #LivingLiberation #UbuntuPodcast #CollectivePower #LeadershipForChange

?? Leadership is not a solo act—it's a collective weaving. At Change Elemental, we believe leadership thrives when it allows everyone to shift into their gifts, building space for both organizational elders to transform their roles and new leaders to offer their skills and perspectives. ?? Our latest blog explores what it means to coweave leadership: embracing shared power, mutual accountability, and the tensions that spark creativity. ??? Dive into how we’re (re)imagining leadership! ?? Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/gSjhUbwW #Coweaving #TransformativeLeadership

NPQ’s premium webinar on November 14 will cover sharing power by involving more staff in budget drafting and review, creating a realistic budget development timeline and process, and much more. Panelists include Ananda Valenzuela of Change Elemental and Alicia Radford, CPA. Register today: https://bit.ly/4faLfox