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Agencies for Good: Building Trust, Collaboration, and Innovation in the Tech for Good Sector
Agencies for Good: Building Trust, Collaboration, and Innovation in the Tech for Good Sector
Reflecting on the Impact and Success of the Agencies for Good Initiative in Fostering Collaboration Across the UK Tech for Good Sector
Tamara S
Oct 10
Inside Catalyst — Sept 23: liberatory practices vs mainstream tech business models
Inside Catalyst — Sept 23: liberatory practices vs mainstream tech business models
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on tech design biases, decentralising power, working our values and trimester planning.
Joe Roberson
Sep 24
Inside Catalyst — Sept 16: circles, connection and challenge
Inside Catalyst — Sept 16: circles, connection and challenge
Reflections from the Catalyst team on working in person, sharing power and putting our values into action.
Joe Roberson
Sep 16
Inside Catalyst, June 19: growing governance, bias management and liberatory tech talks
Inside Catalyst, June 19: growing governance, bias management and liberatory tech talks
Catalyst life is rich this week. The Next Frontiers conference was our highlight, but there’s lots of good and many challenges!
Joe Roberson
Jun 19
Testing Catalyst’s new vision and mission statements
Testing Catalyst’s new vision and mission statements
Findings and insights from talking to people about the words and phrases we are starting to use to describe Catalyst.
Joe Roberson
Jun 17
Inside Catalyst, May 20: reviewing 30 Executive Director applications
Inside Catalyst, May 20: reviewing 30 Executive Director applications
Shortlisting 7 people, application questions, reciprocity, personal challenges and birdsong…
Joe Roberson
May 20
Inside Catalyst, May 13: designing governance and content discovery
Inside Catalyst, May 13: designing governance and content discovery
Reflections on the week’s progress and challenges — from Ellie, Megan and Joe.
Joe Roberson
May 13
Turning good content into great content: reflections on Shared Digital Guides 2023-24
Turning good content into great content: reflections on Shared Digital Guides 2023-24
Kat Quatermass reflects on changing ‘good’ content into ‘great’ content and making Guides usable for people with different levels of…
Joe Roberson
May 13
Inside Catalyst, April 29: one month old
Inside Catalyst, April 29: one month old
Shaping culture, taking full responsibility for our choices, choosing ethical tech, planning for risk inspiration…
Joe Roberson
Apr 29
Inside Catalyst, April 22: transition update
Inside Catalyst, April 22: transition update
Catalyst has changed its structure and mission. This blog shares what we’ve been thinking about this last week. It’s written by me but the…
Joe Roberson
Apr 22
How we prepared and ran a retrospective for Catalyst’s transition process based on range of…
How we prepared and ran a retrospective for Catalyst’s transition process based on range of…
If you’re connected to Catalyst in some aspect, you probably know that this is an exciting time for the network. Since 2021, Catalyst has…
Kayleigh Walsh
Apr 3
Should you show digital costs separately in grant funding applications?
Should you show digital costs separately in grant funding applications?
Helping UK non-profits decide whether to integrate digital costs into core and project funding application budget lines.
Joe Roberson
Nov 28, 2023
Building Resilience In the Nonprofit Sector: The Role of the Catalyst Network
Building Resilience In the Nonprofit Sector: The Role of the Catalyst Network
In 2022, the Catalyst network began a review of the network and the support that it offers the nonprofit sector in the wake of the Covid-19…
Sadaf Rasheed
Sep 4, 2023
Support and training update #3: rain won’t dampen our summer progress
Support and training update #3: rain won’t dampen our summer progress
Our third co-written blog. Written in 5 minutes by members of Catalyst’s support and training circle.
Ab Brightman
Sep 4, 2023
Support and training update #2: challenges and happy things
Support and training update #2: challenges and happy things
Our second co-written blog. Written in 5 minutes by members of Catalyst’s support and training circle.
Joe Roberson
Jun 28, 2023
Digital Trustees — growth and impact
Digital Trustees — growth and impact
Recruiting Black and Asian trustees, how small charities offer a different kind of value from their larger counterparts and how we deliver…
Third Sector Lab
Jun 27, 2023
Challenges and excitement: what Catalyst support services are up to
Challenges and excitement: what Catalyst support services are up to
This blog was co-written in 5 minutes by members of Catalyst’s support and training circle. Together we run 6 support initiatives on behalf…
Joe Roberson
May 23, 2023
The Good, the Great and the Glorious
The Good, the Great and the Glorious
A weeknote that’s more about my work breaks and less about the work I did. 2/3 is written by me. Can you guess which 1/3 is written by…
Joe Roberson
May 4, 2023
The Good, the Bad and the Merciless
The Good, the Bad and the Merciless
When I need a quick title, this one never fails: “The Good, the Bad and the [fill in the blank]”.
Joe Roberson
Apr 20, 2023
How I revamped my productivity system after 12 years of Getting Things (less and less) Done.
How I revamped my productivity system after 12 years of Getting Things (less and less) Done.
This is about rocks: micro, small and large ones.
Joe Roberson
Mar 23, 2023
The anti-structure: rebelling against my own advice
The anti-structure: rebelling against my own advice
This working week has been so structured that I’m rebelling against it and writing these weeknotes without a structure. Without a structure…
Joe Roberson
Mar 16, 2023
Renaming Service Recipes lean style
Renaming Service Recipes lean style
How we’re doing it. Avoiding the easy title ‘whats in a name’. #notaweeknote #notyetconfirmed
Joe Roberson
Mar 9, 2023
Product testing: what we learnt from testing Service Recipes with new users
Product testing: what we learnt from testing Service Recipes with new users
6 insights from 71 total, gained from usability testing with 5 new site users.
Joe Roberson
Mar 8, 2023
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