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Support Elos
Supporting Elos means backing work that shows, again and again, what people can change together.
Ways to support
Three ways to support us.
Choose the one that suits your situation. All three support the same work.
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Recurring donation
It’s worth dreaming together.
Every month, you help show what people can change when they act together.
Donate at no cost
Donate via the Nota Fiscal Paulista scheme
You keep asking for your CPF number on receipts, as you already do, and your next receipts generate credit for Elos. It doesn’t come out of your pocket, and it supports the organisation’s work in the same way as a donation.
Invest in Elos
Become an Elos Transformer
For those who invest in Elos as an institution and follow its activities closely. A long-term, significant commitment, involving direct engagement with the organisation and accountability for how the funds are used.
An investment of this scale starts with a conversation. Just leave your email address and we’ll get in touch.
Instituto Elos is a social education organisation. For over 25 years, in more than 60 countries and over 1,000 communities, it has been developing its own social technology, the Elos Methodology, which strengthens the capacities, bonds and conditions for collective action amongst individuals, communities and regions.
In practice, it is a single endeavour, carried out on three fronts. Elos trains leaders, harnesses the collective capacity of local communities so that they can drive their own development, and equips the institutions responsible for deciding on resources and investments to listen to and cooperate with those living in the community. How each of these is carried out is set out in the Methodology section.
Supporting Elos is different from funding a project. A project has a beginning and an end. The idea that Elos advocates, that transformation happens when people organise themselves to bring it about, needs continuity to be proven, and it is this continuity that your support sustains.
Anyone who supports Elos is supporting a change that begins with individuals and spreads throughout the community. Elos trains these people to rediscover their sense of wonder and their ability to dream, and prepares them to lead the changes that the local area itself is seeking.
Supporting Elos means investing in sustainable and self-reliant change, which rebuilds the social fabric and is sustained by those who live there. With the people, not for the people.
Elos Transformador up close
Being a ‘Transformador’ means investing in Elos as a whole.
A shared vision: the third step of the method
Elos Transformador is for those who choose to support the organisation in its entirety: its methodology, its community-based work and its ability to continue operating between one project and the next.
It is this support that answers the key question on every institutional investor’s mind: why is it worth investing in this organisation as a whole? A project delivers a finished product and then ends. Elos, however, leaves behind a lasting capacity: it trains leaders and establishes the networks that enable the local community to continue driving its own development thereafter, in partnership with public authorities, businesses and other organisations. This is what international cooperation refers to as locally-led development.
Elos holds the Melhores ONGs seal and has had eleven consecutive years of external audits. All documents are open in Governance.
Other forms
Other ways to support us.
Incentive schemes
For companies wishing to allocate part of their tax liability to approved projects. Please contact us to find out which projects are eligible.
Does your company want to work with Elos?
A business partnership is not a donation. It begins with consultancy, where discussions with a company take place.
It’s worth dreaming together.
For over 25 years, across more than 60 countries and in over 1,000 communities, Elos has demonstrated that collective action brings about change. Every contribution helps make the next story possible.
more than 60 countries · more than 25 years · more than 1,000 communities
