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Navigating our ethical dilemmas; what does it cost?
Navigating our ethical dilemmas; what does it cost?
Truly living our values and ethics can often cost us a lot; collectively, organisationally, and personally. Sadly, in some organisations…
Jo Morfee
Jan 22
Inside Catalyst — 16 January : back at work, kicking off comms projects, looking ahead
Inside Catalyst — 16 January : back at work, kicking off comms projects, looking ahead
Weekly reflections from the Catalyst team on the value of rest, starting new work and looking at impact reporting and being prompt paying…
Joe Roberson
Jan 13
What we learned from our governance design experiment
What we learned from our governance design experiment
Earlier this year we kicked off some work to redesign Catalyst’s governance. Here we share what we learned.
Megan Gray
Dec 16, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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