OUR IMPACT
357
Grants
26M
Dollars Invested
660+
Co-applicants Supported
5700+
Benefitting Organizations
What we do
Movements are essential for social change, and movement infrastructure is essential to successful, healthy movements. Mosaic is catalyzing a bigger, more influential environmental movement, helping groups access and share resources, align agendas, and build powerful coalitions whose near-term wins are building momentum and laying the groundwork for long-term systems change.
Supporting strong field-wide infrastructure, an essential element of successful movements
To boost the field’s power, Mosaic invests in four types of movement infrastructure judged most critical by diverse leaders and academic experts — narrative, leadership, connection and trust, and advocacy tools and training. Our grantmaking has reached nearly 20 percent of the environmental movement’s 30,000 organizations, helping groups access and share resources, align agendas, and build powerful coalitions to influence local, state, and national policy — including passage of landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act.
Empowering leaders and infusing movement expertise
As one of the largest participatory grantmakers in the U.S., Mosaic centers the movement’s leadership in identifying and supporting the field’s infrastructure. A diverse rotating Leadership Council that includes leaders across NGO, grassroots, and philanthropy, leads Mosaic and sets strategy in close partnership with a small staff team. The Leadership Council provides a transformative leadership experience to some of our foremost movement leaders, who come together to build their individual and collective leadership capacity.
Facilitating collaboration and generating field-wide data
Mosaic solicits collaborative movement infrastructure proposals from across the country through annual national, open grantmaking processes. This annual process — in concert with regular webinars, surveys, and other engagement tools— create opportunities for groups to find new partners, deepen relationships, and accelerate progress together. This process also unlocks deep insight into field needs that are helping funders, movement leaders, and government agencies identify the most effective levers for change.
