Catalyst Network of Communities

10/29/2022

Tomorrow afternoon!

Tomorrow at 1:00 pm come enjoy a free event like you’ve never seen before!
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Featuring the debut performance of playing Peter and the Wolf with narrating, and local Long Beach youth participating also!
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We’ll have musical carnival games, costume making, and other surprises too! Make sure to dress up too!

04/01/2022

16 years ago, today, we established Catalyst to help you to connect, collaborate, and share resources. The last couple of years has left a lot of us feeling disconnected. As we emerge from the pandemic, it's time for us to re-engage to build a tangible sense of community!

Join the team and let's see what this could look like together!
https://www.gocatalyst.org/volunteer-form

03/28/2022

It was so good to reconnect with the ole LBCreative crew again!

04/10/2021

01/02/2021

Check out the Zoom concert this Sunday, Jan 3rd featuring the life of black composer Joseph Bologne, presented by our fiscally sponsored program The Infinite Stage!

Register for zoom concert here:
https://linktr.ee/Theinfinitestage

09/01/2020

We’ve made a lot of progress working towards our close, getting everything ready for our Unlimited Everything Must Go Free Shopping Day on Sept. 13th, 1-5pm. Since our announcement, we’ve also gotten responses from people wanting to start their own Free Sharing Operation (FSO), as well as pre-existing FSOs who will receive some of our closing inventory and support.

If you prefer not to start an ongoing FSO, you can also host a one-time giveaway for your neighborhood. We will give you items from our closing inventory (clothing, household items, toys, etc.) and you can make them available for people in your neighborhood without accepting donations. Remember to have your own social distancing procedures.

For more info and to request inventory, go to http://www.gocatalyst.org/fso-network.

08/28/2020

Something amazing happens when people help each other. Community.

It’s now more than ever that we need ways for people to support one another. We'd like to use the inventory from our closing Whittier Free Store to seed new free sharing activities. What if you hosted your own mini free store for your neighborhood? Of course, not exactly what we were doing with the Whittier Free Store - but rather something more simple and manageable for you - just an opportunity for neighbors to give what they can and to receive what they need. And we'd help you!

For more info and to request support for seed inventory, go to http://www.gocatalyst.org/fso-network.

Seed inventory will only be available for the next few weeks during our close out process!

08/26/2020

With the closing of our Whittier Free Store in a few weeks, we’re hoping to use the inventory to seed new and pre-existing free sharing operations. Read more about it at http://www.gocatalyst.org/fso-network.

The Whittier Free Store and Artisan Work Lab will be closing in September 2020.

In a nutshell, we've been fortunate and thankful to have been invited by First Christian Church of Whittier to occupy the space so that we could serve the community for the past 5 years. The congregation has since closed their services at the end of 2019 but have graciously allowed us to continue using the space. We've recently been informed that they have had to lease the entire church campus to another large church which means we'll need to move out of the space as soon as possible.

Rather than finding a new space to open and operate in, we have decided to close down our Whittier Free Store and Artisan Work Lab programs. But it's now more than ever during this time of social distancing, social isolation, anxiety, and economic uncertainty that we need ways of connecting with neighbors and helping each other in whatever ways that we can. So we're excited about new possibilities for helping others to start free sharing operations (FSOs).

Read more about it here:
http://www.gocatalyst.org/fso-network

Also check out the upcoming calendar:
http://www.gocatalyst.org/calendar