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Catalyst Now is the global umbrella movement that connects social innovators for collaborative change.

07/09/2026

Can we transform systems by changing the stories we tell?

In our latest article on Medium, author Amina Mohamed (Founder of Cameras For Girls) shares how shifting away from extractive storytelling can change power dynamics, donor expectations, and whole systems from the ground up:

♦️ Reframing Agency: Instead of outsiders deciding what is compelling, storytelling begins with relationship, consent, and shared authorship.
♦️ Shifting from Rescue to Support: Moving away from savior narratives to stand alongside capable individuals navigating systemic barriers.
♦️ Rewriting the Narrative: Training young women in media spaces to document lived experiences through resilience, creativity, and dignity, rather than poverty alone.

The takeaway? Storytelling isn’t just a comms strategy - it’s a leverage point. When we change what we show, we change what gets funded.

Authors: Amina Mohamed
Peer-reviewed & Edited by: Bridgette Kyalimpa, Ivo Arrey Mbongaya

Read the article in English: https://f.mtr.cool/zwajr4gsw4
Find the article in Arabic, French, Spanish and Portuguese in the comments

02/09/2026

September is full of new opportunities to connect, learn, and get inspired. Join us online!

Upcoming Events:

♦️ September 3 | 3 PM (CET): Conversation Café: Navigating Sustainable Impact in an Era of Global Funding Uncertainty
How can social-impact organisations sustain their work and deepen their impact in a changing funding landscape?
Join us for a Conversation Café bringing together social entrepreneurs, education and social-impact innovators, funders, foundations, CSR leaders, programme managers and ecosystem builders.

♦️ September 8-12: At One Impact Week 2026
Hosted by TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and the NO.17 Foundation Impact Week Singapore brings together leaders across business, capital, and philanthropy to reshape key areas such as urban, rural, ocean, and human consciousness ecosystems.
If you are passionate about building a regenerative future, this week is designed for you. Spots are limited.

♦️ September 15 | 4 PM (CET): Claude como compañero de misión: cómo colaborar con IA y delegar tareas (only for members - in Spanish)
Hosts: Alejandro Rodríguez

♦️September 30 | 3 PM (CET): General Assembly. The movement’s main forum for sharing ideas and information, celebrating successes, and shaping its direction (only for members)

Explore all events and sign up now: https://f.mtr.cool/xxro4nn67r

31/08/2026

A warm welcome to the 68 new members joining us this June!

We’re excited to connect and create unique collaborations that drive systemic change, enabling leaders and their organizations to move together, breaking silos and turning collaboration into real systems change.

We are convinced the world doesn’t lack solutions; it lacks alignment. That’s why we invite the ecosystem of social innovators to connect, collaborate, and join the global umbrella movement for social innovators.

Not a member of Catalyst Now yet? Learn more about our free membership and apply here: https://f.mtr.cool/ni013x0rm5

26/08/2026

How can we redesign the conditions that shape behaviour, rather than simply trying to change behaviour itself?

This Medium article, co-created with the Learning Designers Community and Learning Planet Institute, explores why lasting behaviour change depends less on raising awareness and more on creating the conditions that make new behaviours possible.

Bringing together insights from practitioners and researchers, the article features case studies from:

🔸 India: Using the COM-B framework to strengthen malaria prevention through community-centred behavioural design.
🔸 China & Nepal: Reimagining education through LivePBL, where students, parents, and global peers co-create learning.
🔸 India: Applying behavioural nudges to simplify hiring and improve everyday decision-making.
🔸 Peru: Driving educational transformation through participatory research that builds trust, shared leadership, and long-term commitment.

Across these diverse contexts, a common insight emerges: meaningful change happens when we redesign the environments, relationships, and systems that shape behaviour, not when we simply ask people to act differently.

Read the full article: https://f.mtr.cool/b4h0rij8bg

Would you like to have your article published? Get in touch with Mehr-un-Nisa Usman

24/08/2026

We need a funding system that recognizes what enables lasting impact.

For Catalyst Now member AVDA, growth was not driven by funding alone. It was strengthened through learning spaces, global networks, mentorship, and opportunities to collaborate with other social innovators.

AVDA's experience demonstrates that leadership, collaboration, and peer learning are essential to impact, yet today's funding systems rarely recognize or reward these enabling conditions.

The Ecosystem Funders Council brings funders and social innovators together to close that gap, moving funding beyond isolated projects and investing in systems that create the conditions for systemic change, through collaboration, connection and knowledge- sharing. Reshaping funding starts by reshaping what we value.

Become a member of the EFC: [email protected]

19/08/2026

This World Humanitarian Day, we are looking closely at how Catalyst Now collaborates with Community Action Collab to rethink emergency response.

Community Action Collab is a collaborative platform that builds the resilience of India's most vulnerable communities through coordinated action. By bringing together over 375 local partners, civil society groups, and government allies, they ensure 10 million people have steady access to healthcare, social safety nets, climate protection, and livelihood support.

For Catalyst Now, this partnership represents what we stand for: changing how the world responds to challenges. By combining local trust and ground-level work with our broader ecosystem of support, we make sure resources go further and communities have the support they need to build lasting resilience.

Join the Catalyst Now movement: https://f.mtr.cool/avsijmerjo

17/08/2026

Can we design an energy future through community-led solutions?

Global energy transition is usually dominated by megawatts, macroeconomics... and men. But a truly just transition requires looking at the system differently.

In our latest Catalyst Now publication on Medium, author Jaya Ramchandani (Faculty at UWC Atlantic College & Education Consultant at We Learn, We Grow) shares how three young women paved the way towards fair regenerative futures, designing real-world interventions in Mongolia, Nepal, and Taiwan. By targeting key leverage points, they are building fairer energy futures from the ground up:

♦️ Mongolia: Oyunbolor is replacing toxic coal with clean, affordable biopellets made from local agricultural waste to tackle urban air pollution.
♦️ Nepal: Sahara is using design to amplify local hydraulic research, securing safer, flood-proof hydropower.
♦️Taiwan: Daphne is co-creating storybooks with Indigenous youth to center tribal sovereignty and community voices in clean energy planning.

The future of energy isn’t just about changing our technology; it’s about shifting power to the people.

Read the full article in English: https://f.mtr.cool/mhbhzljbqn

Find the article in Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese in the comments

Would you like to have your article published? Get in touch with Mehr-un-Nisa Usman

12/08/2026

Catalyst Now is excited to be part of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK 2026.

What if love became infrastructure? This thought-provoking question is at the heart of the upcoming Well-being Economy Forum & Festival, taking place from September 8–12 in Singapore.

Hosted by TPC and the NO.17 Foundation, this event brings together leaders across business, capital, and philanthropy to reshape key areas such as urban, rural, ocean, and human consciousness ecosystems.

If you are passionate about building a regenerative future, this week is designed for you. Spots are limited.

🔹Location: Suntec Singapore
🔹Date: 8–12 September 2026

Reserve your seat: https://f.mtr.cool/luktzizaua
Learn more: https://f.mtr.cool/txxafsiigk

11/08/2026

Catalysing Change Week is now Catalyst Now Week. Same event you know and love, with a new name! As our community keeps growing, we wanted our event to reflect who we are: a global umbrella movement catalysing change together, now.

From October 12–16, 2026, we will host , and this year it's all about the power of collaboration.

Stay tuned for more details about the world's largest virtual gathering for social innovation, bringing together grassroots, business leaders, funders, and governments from every sector and corner of the planet to share breakthrough ideas and build collaborations that drive real systems change.

🔸For Catalyst Now members: Check your inbox to submit your session before August 20.
🔸Not a member yet? Get involved at catalystnow.net/catalyzing-change-week/

08/08/2026

Two days left!

Nominations for the Catalyst Now Awards 2026 close on 10 August, so if that donor, foundation, or philanthropic partner has been on your mind, now's the time to make it official.

Nominate them under a category:

🔹Leader in Trust
🔹Leader in Partnership
🔹Leader in Field Building
🔹Leader in Transformative Compliance

The best philanthropy doesn't just fund projects; it backs people, strengthens ecosystems, and makes real change possible.

Nominate now: https://f.mtr.cool/bjouzybmvn

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