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BECOME A VITAL PART OF THE CHANGE
Help us raise awareness of informality, its multi-faceted impacts, and the solution: Reality Check Analysis (RCA).
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Together, we examine how informality shapes everyday life, and how transforming it can open pathways to freedom—addressing issues ranging from homelessness and housing crises to migration, economic reform, and the implications of AI.
Choose Your Donation
Every level of support you choose directly funds:
LEVEL 1:
Up to $500 Awareness Promoter
Your Impact:
Supports our local operations in the field.
LEVEL 2:
$500 – 70% Awareness Promoter and Fact Checker
Your Impact:
Research, fact-checking, and story development for the documentary—before the camera ever rolls.
LEVEL 3:
$2,000 — PodCast – Reality Check Walk with ‘Elena
Your Impact:
On-the-ground production costs –transport, licences/permits, and field community coordination, so we can film where the story happens.
You are invited
to a two-hour Reality Check Walk with Élena, typically held in New York, Washington D.C., Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico city. When walks are scheduled in other locations, participants will be notified by email with details and availability. These curated walks offer a space to observe and discuss how informality shapes everyday life in the places where it is lived.
LEVEL 4:
$5,000 — Face-to-Face Conversation with a Distinguished Change Team Member
Your Impact:
Power the next phase of our work—new research projects and new documentaries.
A one-hour conversation
online or in person, with a member of our Change Team, including contributors such as Francis Fukuyama, Deirdre McCloskey, David Landsman, Willem Buiter, Nobel Laureate Christopher Pissarides.
LEVEL 5:
$10,000 — Priority Preview of the Documentary film 70% Informals
Your Impact:
Private screenings for targeted audiences/communities for educational or other purposes, followed by Q&A. Includes permissions, licensed footage, translations and accessibility (subtitles/captions).
You are invited
to an exclusive private screening, virtual or (where possible) in person, with a live Q&A session. Be among the first to experience the documentary you made possible.
LEVEL 6:
$12,000 — Co-Producer of two “Reality Check with Élena” videocast episodes
Your Impact:
Power the production of Reality Check with Élena videocast—allowing the series to continue airing and expanding their reach.
You help bring conversations
with leaders, those who live in informality, and those who have experienced the transformation across Africa, Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
LEVEL 7:
Partner in the Transformation of the 70%
Your Impact:
Contact us to explore specific opportunities to transform a country at a time, increase awareness, and use Reality Check Analysis’ first level assessment.
•$100,000 supports the production of the 70% Informals next documentary co-producer and receives producer’s credit.
•$50,000 amplifies production and distribution of our video podcast and receives producer’s credit.