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

16/06/2026

Join us online for a series of inspiring events exploring education, climate action, and youth engagement around the world

Upcoming Events:

♦️ June 16 | 11 AM (CET): Who Owns the Data? Indigenous Sovereignty in the Age of AI
A learning session amplifying Indigenous voices on the critical issues of our time.
Pizzonizni
♦️ June 17 | 4 PM (CET): Shifting Narratives, Amplifying Stories
Join the Catalyst Migration Initiative! Be part of a collaborative movement across Latin America and the Caribbean to highlight the powerful impact of migrants.
Jeanne Joseph Aguais
♦️ June 18 | 12 PM (CET): Discovery Session Taiwan
An opportunity to learn more about Catalyst Now, explore how we work, and connect with fellow changemakers across Taiwan.
♦️ June 18 | 5 PM (CET): Conversation Café: The Power of Art In Addressing The Margin
In this session, we will explore how art can be used to challenge gender inequalities, confront harmful social norms, and advance the rights and empowerment of women and girls
♦️ June 23 | 5 PM (CET): Inteligencia Artificial y el futuro de la innovación social (in Spanish)
Oscar Mauricio Morales Cuellar
♦️ June 24 | 3 PM (CET): General Assembly (members only)
The General Assembly is the movement’s main forum for sharing ideas and information, celebrating successes, and shaping its direction. Catalyst Now Asia & the Pacific, Catalyst Now Europe Chapter, Catalyst NOW, Nigeria Chapter, Catalyst Now - South Africa, Catalyst Now Syria Chapter.
♦️ June 25 | 12 PM (CET): Discovery Session South Korea
♦️ June 25 | 3 PM (CET): Youth livelihood Pathways for a Just Transition (Session 2)
Willice Onyango Redfrog
♦️ June 25 | 5 PM (CET): El costo invisible del liderazgo (in Spanish)
Silvana Cisneros María Fernanda Alorda

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

15/06/2026

Why doesn’t information alone change behavior?

In our latest Medium article, Swanti Satsangi Gupta explores why climate awareness rarely translates into meaningful action and what it actually takes to shift mindsets and behaviors.

Through a learning experiment we discovered that passive data and information alone fail to create lasting change. Because people don’t simply respond to facts; they respond to emotion, identity, belonging, and shared commitment.

The key takeaway?

To drive real systems change, we must move beyond traditional information delivery and start designing learning journeys rooted in empathy, participation, friction, and collective intelligence.

Because the true measure of learning is not whether people remember the content, but whether they become someone who cares and acts.

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

Thanks to Dr. Neha Vaddiparti for the authoring support.

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

10/06/2026

What are the challenges that social innovators are facing in the current funding ecosystem?

Fred Rutagengwa from Watoto Vision Africa, a member of the Catalyst Now movement, shares his vision of an ideal funding system: one rooted in community knowledge and designed to provide long term, flexible support to social innovators.

The Ecosystem Founders Council was created for exactly this purpose: to pave the way for reshaping the existing funding models.

It is a collective space that brings social innovators and philanthropists together to drive systemic change and reshape financial structures as a long-term strategic investment.

Because the world is not short of solutions, it’s short of alignment.

Join the EFC and help shape the answer: [email protected]

07/06/2026

On World Food Safety Day, Catalyst Now joins the movement "From Burden to Solutions: Safe Food Everywhere."

From Kenya to Asia-Pacific, we are addressing the global food crisis with technology-based, science-driven, localized initiatives, directly powered by our members in their communities. This includes enabling young people with climate-smart technology and mobilizing international funding for regenerative, local agricultural models.

We understand that ensuring safe food everywhere is a collective mission and that systemic change doesn't happen in isolation. At Catalyst Now, we are tackling this challenge from the ground up, starting with social innovators.

Join our collaborations and let's strengthen our efforts to create a system where safe food is a reality for everyone, everywhere: https://f.mtr.cool/jonbnylaho

03/06/2026

Catalyst Now was founded in 2019 by 100 member organisations, including Ashoka , Echoing Green , the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the The Skoll Foundation , and incubated by One Family Foundation , with the vision of uniting social innovators under a global umbrella movement.

We are a collective and diverse movement of social innovators, community leaders, businesses, governments, and local organisations from every corner of the globe with one common goal: to bring system change through collective collaboration.

Because Catalyst Now exists, systems behave differently.

Join the movement now: https://f.mtr.cool/kbrfrxbvzg

01/06/2026

June brings new opportunities to learn, connect, and collaborate

Join us online for a series of inspiring events exploring education, climate action, and youth engagement around the world

Upcoming Events:
♦️ June 2 | 2 PM (CET): Change Hub: From Insight to Action - Turning Ideas into Real Change - Discover how inspiration and ideas can be transformed into meaningful action
♦️ June 4 | 3 PM (CET): Youth livelihood Pathways for a Just Transition (Session 1)
This session examines why climate and just transition ambitions are not consistently translating into real opportunities for young people
♦️ June 4 | 4 PM (CET): Conversation Café - Live in Sync: Working With Your Cycle
In this session, Daisy Bartlett, founder of EMFAME, explores how menstrual cycle awareness can transform the way we approach our monthly schedules and wellbeing
♦️ June 24 | 3 PM (CET): General Assembly (members only)
The General Assembly is the movement’s main forum for sharing ideas and information, celebrating successes, and shaping its direction
♦️ June 25 | 3 PM (CET): Youth livelihood Pathways for a Just Transition (Session 2)

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

27/05/2026

A warm welcome to the 96 new members joining us this May!

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/lfjhqxqmoq

25/05/2026

The strength of an economy doesn’t rest on financial capital alone. It rests on the resilience of Civil Society.

In his article Investing in the Democratic Dividend, Michael Jarvis argues that stable markets require a foundation of trust that only a robust Civil Society can build. That foundation cannot exist without four essential conditions:

🔹 Transparency
🔹 Accountability
🔹 Citizen Participation
🔹 Fair Systems

As a vital part of economic infrastructure, Civil Society acts as a safety net during crises, facilitates dialogue between competing interests, and bridges the gap between citizens and institutions.

This is where the Ecosystems Founders Council comes in: it strengthens the environment where civil society flourishes and provides the platform for social innovators and philanthropists to drive systemic change - treating civil society not as a donation, but as a high-stakes, long-term strategic investment

Join the EFC and help shape the answer: [email protected]

Read the full article in the comments.

20/05/2026

Systems thinking isn’t about overcomplicating - it’s about seeing the hidden connections that drive real impact. In our latest piece, Danny Chen unpacks why this mindset is essential for tackling today's most complex challenges.

Instead of avoiding complexity, we’re learning to navigate it. The article explores:

🔹Debunking Myths: Systems thinking isn’t a top-down mandate; it’s an inclusive, experimental process.
🔹Small Wins, Big Impact: Why starting with informed, local experiments beats massive, rigid designs.
🔹Systemic Alignment: How to align human goals with complex environments.

Read the full article here: https://f.mtr.cool/ksthvpmdnd

Edited by Bernd Herbert, Coach for Strategy & Systemic Business Design

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

18/05/2026

Behind every impact is a social innovator working day after day to drive systemic change. Yet, according to the WHO, 1 in 2 people will face a mental health challenge in their lifetime. How do we design spaces where care and innovation aren’t mutually exclusive, but complementary?

This , we’re diving into conversations about resilience, care, and how to sustain ourselves and our communities in complex times.

Upcoming Sessions
🔹May 21 & 28 | Being Human While Everything Is on Fire: A safe space for social entrepreneurs to explore the personal and collective challenges of working through uncertainty, pressure, and change.
🔹May 22 | The Human Session: An intentional pause to slow down, breathe, and simply be human.
🔹June 2 | Change Hub: From Insight to Action: A space to turn reflection into practice, translating ideas into meaningful, real-world change.

Register here for our: https://f.mtr.cool/fehtzqqwnk
Read our blog on mental health and learn more about our resources: https://f.mtr.cool/euaapnpmse

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