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How to become a writer on Catalyst’s Medium 2024
How to become a writer on Catalyst’s Medium 2024
We have a Medium publication. If you’re working on a Catalyst supported project or anything else across the network we invite you to write…
Joe Roberson
Nov 27
Inside Catalyst — 25 November: getting more ethical and losing things
Inside Catalyst — 25 November: getting more ethical and losing things
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on how we choose partners, how our tech stack frustrates and finding love in our processes.
Joe Roberson
Nov 25
Bean There, Done That: Reflecting on Coffee Connections
Bean There, Done That: Reflecting on Coffee Connections
CAST has been running Coffee Connections for a long number of years now (since 2018!), and has received support from Catalyst in the last…
Tori Ellaway
Nov 20
Inside Catalyst — 5 November: Ellie shares her joy and challenges
Inside Catalyst — 5 November: Ellie shares her joy and challenges
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on our tech justice project, grief and AI and spirituality.
Joe Roberson
Nov 6
Inside Catalyst — 4 November: Abi and Hannah share their joy and challenges
Inside Catalyst — 4 November: Abi and Hannah share their joy and challenges
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on maintaining values, Slack’s limitations and contracting smoothly.
Joe Roberson
Nov 4
What happened to the services we stopped funding in April 2024?
What happened to the services we stopped funding in April 2024?
In April of this year Catalyst stopped funding some of its initiatives. We did this because our grant income reduced and our mission…
Joe Roberson
Oct 28
Design Hops: Reflecting on the journey so far, lessons learnt, and the future
Design Hops: Reflecting on the journey so far, lessons learnt, and the future
Join me as I look back (over my shoulder 🎵) at the progress we’ve made on Design Hops over the last couple of years and our plans for the…
Tori Ellaway
Oct 24
Dovetail x Catalyst: reflections on helping non-profits find a digital partner that fits
Dovetail x Catalyst: reflections on helping non-profits find a digital partner that fits
This blog post talks about our journey helping non-profits find their perfect digital match.
Noam
Oct 22
Inside Catalyst — Oct 14: high fives, word challenges, wellbeing culture.
Inside Catalyst — Oct 14: high fives, word challenges, wellbeing culture.
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on inducting new staff, modelling stuff and workshopping the story of Catalyst.
Joe Roberson
Oct 14
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
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