About FuseChange
How We Began
Our history is deeply rooted in collaboration. We believe change does not happen alone, it happens working collectively together. It’s open, inclusive, accessible and crosses a wide variety of unique persepectives. We are also the first to admit, collaboration it tough and not easy. Yet, we see it as one of the most critical components towards global sustainability.
Origins of the Mission
1998 – The Seeds
In 1998, Sean Kvingedal felt a spark after hearing Toni Morrison speak at Northern Arizona University. Her words illuminated the struggles faced by people in urban communities and the need for transformative change. That moment ignited a lifelong passion finding ways to power of community-driven solutions at scale and how human relationships move collaborative change.
2002 – Setting the Mission
The internet and social networks of the 2000’s, demonstrated opportunities for nonprofits to move from their Yahoo listservs into a new multi-dimentional era.
We asked, what if, the social and environmental sectors could seamlessly recognize who is working on what, where, when, why, and how and collaborate? Leveraging new technologies we could coordinate our efforts to achieve much greater impact in less time and with fewer resources.
2008-2014 – Building Tools for Change
After focusing on the mission, talking to experts and gaining experience in community and international development, MojaLink (ImpactFlow) was founded. It was a technology that enabled nonprofits to quickly align to funders, while weaving together opportunities to collaborate and coordinate across philanthropy. Our team raised a few million in funding and started with business tools to engage employees grantmaking to nonprofits. We were successful in that the initial idea was ahead of the time.
Founding FuseChange.org
2018-2021 – Founding an Experiment
In 2018, FuseChange was born founded by Sean Kvingedal, Cory Cochola, and Regina Ingabire. We placed mission over self as a 501c3 nonprofit organization to create a volunteer-led collaborative experiment. Could volunteers from around the world, who never met in person, work collaboratively to build a nonprofit?
Over 30 amazing volunteers contributed to the development of FuseChange from around the world. We inspired design thinking events to bring inclusive communities together in efforts to collaborate on homelessness. Together, we sought to shift the narrative by disrupting how community participates in solutions. What once seemed daunting, now felt possible empowering community participation into solutions. Collectively, across geographies we shared our open source learnings and solutions. The COVID pandemic eventually grounded our plans. The learnings have lived on!
2021-2025 – Defing our Evolution
During the pandemic, we grew our services in technology design (UX/UI) and product development. We believe in generating revenue from our services to support our program objectives. Grants become bonuses that help fuel self-sustaining projects that generate change.
Our largest project was a contract to work with The New York City’s Department of Education, Students in Temporary Housing division. Our task was to ideate on an open source homeless data systems for the largest district in the country. We spoke to many districts and leaders across the country. What was realized, is that a majority of the schools are facing the same problem, requiring the same solution and everyone is solving it on their own. Learn More
2025-26
Our mission is still dialed-in disrupt how changemakers collaborate and coordinate their efforts to change systems.
People
Regina Ingabire
Sean Kvingedal
Kashyap Basu
Board Member
Regina Ingabire
Regina is a FuseChange Board of Director an expert in community partnerships, public health, diversity, inclusion and equity. Regina originally from Rwanda has always been deeply involved in strengthening her local community anywhere she resides. She is the co-founder of Never Again International that started to educate and empower youth in her home country of Rwanda. Regina has also produce a wide range of conferences and local event that bring a diverse range of community expertise together to collaborate on social issues.
Regina has worked with a variety of in international development organizations including; The World Bank, Clinton Global Health Initiative and currently works for the City of Portland.
Board President
Sean Kvingedal
I transform complex processes and ideas into over the top product solutions. My other half develops collaborative systems to help people and the environment for that last 20 years. It’s always been my goal to fully merge social good with business and do so collaboratively.
Professionally, I enjoy working in startups because it involves running on ambiguity and uncertainty. It provide me with a sense of enjoyable chaos. So my career spans across a wide range of activities that include business strategy, sales, marketing, product development and user experience design.
I have founded a SaaS social enterprise and launched a range of projects that brought diverse groups of people together solve problems. I also enjoy finding people with leadership skills and coaching them to use their talents to inspire others and do good in the world.
What makes me who I am…. I embrace diversity, like to be good and kind (to the best of my ability). It’s my mission to help people and the environment in someway.
What are your passions to help change the world?
I want to help as many people as I can utilizing technologies as an approach to increase change output. I also want to create an organization that will define what it means to be a company of people that hold strong values to be good, kind and embrace the diversity of others.
Creative Head Director
Kashyap Basu
Kashyap Basu is an entrepreneur with a creative vision of changing the world with online design and development. With more than fifteen years of experience in the management and creative fields, he successfully helped multiple startups and businesses achieve their goals. His unique communication skills with clients, programming teams and designers and his unique vision have helped accomplish numerous projects and people’s livelihoods. Kashyap is also a highly skilled designer and a creative lead. Throughout his extensive career, he has designed and supervised multiple projects from conceptualization to delivery, including multi-team complex visualizations and developments. He is highly creative and multi-talented with extensive experience in multimedia, marketing, web design, UI application design, branding and print design. In addition, Kashyap’s passion for painting and art is a testament to his creativity. Kashyap is a very motivating person to work with and his creative contributions to the social impacts at FuseChange is undeniable.