Catalyst Now (formerly Catalyst 2030) is the global umbrella movement for the world’s social innovators, the alignment layer and operating system of the social innovative economy.
What we make possible:
🔹Turn many voices into one global movement
🔹Help good solutions travel faster and further
🔹Shift who shapes the future
Become part of the social innovators' first home. Join Catalyst now!
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🎉 Today we’re celebrating our Impact Report 2025!
In a year marked by major global challenges, our members demonstrated that systemic change is possible when we act as a community.
✅ 6,170+ members across 156 countries
✅ 4,250+ organizations represented
✅ 89.42% member satisfaction
✅ 830+ leaders actively collaborating
Thank you to every member for being part of our journey from Catalyst 2030 to Catalyst Now, and for proving that change is already happening.
Read the report in our bio
Introducing the Ecosystem Funders Council (EFC)
Across the world, social innovators are already proving that change is possible. The question is: are funding models evolving fast enough to support the scale of change we need?
Too often, innovation moves faster than the systems and financing structures around it.
Because the world is not short of solutions - it is short of the connective infrastructure that helps those solutions scale, and influence systems.
That’s why Catalyst Now is launching the Ecosystem Funders Council: a space where visionary funders and social innovators come together to rethink how philanthropy can better enable systemic change.
Not another traditional donor network, but a collaborative platform for ecosystem thinking, trust-based partnerships, and long-term impact.
If you’re committed to reimagining funding for the future, we invite you into the conversation.
Join the EFC and help shape the answer: [email protected]
Why does data fail to change behaviors? Often, the barrier isn't a lack of motivation, but the design of the process itself.
In our latest Medium article, Ankita Mirani (Social Innovation Studio) explores how redesigning data collection can transform a community. Working with Vrutti-Livelihood Impact Partners, we turned extractive surveys into a Household Resilience Journal.
By turning data into a tool for self-reflection rather than an external metric, we saw household intent to act jump from 5% to nearly 60%.
To drive systems change, we must stop designing for people and start designing with them.
Read the full story (link in bio).
Africa’s young changemakers have boundless innovation, knowledge, and passion. What they often lack is access to mentors, trusted networks, and systems thinking that can help scale their impact. Too many are still building in isolation.
That’s why we created the InterGen Bridge Initiative (Buddy System – Youth Edition), pairing high-potential social entrepreneurs under 35 with experienced changemakers to accelerate progress toward funding, growth, and credibility.
Catalyst Now exists to support the people and organizations already driving change, acting as an alignment layer and operating system that brings together ideas, capital, policy, and leadership so they can work in harmony rather than in isolation.
A special thank you to the mentees, mentors, and all our collaborators for their dedication to this program.
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May brings new opportunities to reflect and recharge.
As we enter Mental Health Awareness Month, it's time to reflect on the well-being and the resilience of our communities.
Upcoming Events:
🔹May 5 | AI for Human Potential - May Change Hub Session: An interactive session where we explore how AI can help uncover hidden talents and turn them into real impact
🔹May 5 | New School, Communities, and Adult Support: A learning series that explores unconventional methods of learning
🔹May 7, 12,14 &22 | Discovery Session APAC: Explore how we work, and connect with social innovators across the APAC region.
🔹May 14 | Change Hub: Emotional Resilience - Finding Peace in the Midst of Crisis (A seminar in French)
🔹May 14 | Change Hub: Emotional Resilience – Practical Application and Peer Exchange (French)
🔹May 21 | Being Human While Everything Is on Fire: A Safe Space for Social Entrepreneurs: A webinar where we'll explore our personal and collective challenges
🔹May 27 | General Assembly of Catalyst Now (members only)
🔹May 29 | The Human session: An intentional pause, a moment to slow down, breathe, and simply be human.
Explore all events and sign up now (link in bio)
The road to 2027 starts now.
Catalyst Now South Africa is convening leading actors in the Social and Solidarity Economy — social innovators, entrepreneurs, co-operatives, funders, investors, researchers and ecosystem practitioners from South Africa, across the continent, and globally. This is a layered national and continental process building towards the 2027 Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unconference, taking place alongside the World Economic Forum.
Our goal is to strengthen South Africa’s Social and Solidarity Economy through advocacy, policy influence, capacity building, and inclusive economic empowerment.
We invite you to be part of shaping this growing ecosystem.
Register your interest by 31 May 2026.
Over the next 12 months, the journey includes:
📍 9 Provincial Dialogues
📚 2 Academic Colloquiums
🤝 6 Pan-African Roundtables across East and West Africa
⭕ Monthly Circles of Trust to deepen collaboration, strengthen leadership, and advance the Social and Solidarity Economy
The Unconference will take place from 7–9 April 2027.
To get involved:
1️⃣ Register via the link in our bio or scan the QR code
2️⃣ Email [email protected] for more information
3️⃣ Share this with your networks as we grow and strengthen the Social and Solidarity Economy together
Join the journey. Shape what comes next.
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A warm welcome to the 52 new members joining us this April!
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.
Be part of the catalyst now (link in bio)
At the debut of the Ecosystem Funders Council at the Skoll World Forum 2026, one truth resonated louder than ever: we must invest in the systems that orchestrate collaboration.
The session brought together philanthropic leaders, social innovators, and community-led organisations around a one conversation, coordinated funding is the infrastructure for systems change.
The evidence is already here:
♦️ The Catalyst Now ecosystem in 2021 delivered 2 million Covid 19 vaccines in one month.
♦️ 179 organisations are collaborating through Catalyst Now’s mental health collaboration to reduce isolation for hundreds of people.
These are not isolated wins; they have a clear coincidence, collaboration, and resources. The challenge before us is clear: redefine funding architecture to strengthen the systems that enable collective action. Because the world isn’t short of solutions. It is short of alignment.
If you are interested in joining the Ecosystem Funders Council, write us at [email protected]
This Earth Day, at Catalyst Now, we believe the world isn't short of climate solutions; it's short of alignment.
Climate action can't exist in silos. Our Catalyst for Climate collaboration brings together social innovators and partners to co-create and scale locally-led solutions for global impact.
From reducing emissions to regenerating ecosystems, we're championing projects led by communities who understand the ground beneath their feet.
Let’s move from isolation to collaboration. Invest in community-led action and help us bridge the gap.
Join Catalyst for Climate & become a member of Catalyst Now (link in bio).
Education is changing, but is the system keeping up?
With 5 billion minds shaping our world by 2050, we are at a crossroads. Are we delivering an outdated 20th-century script, or are we building a system that honors the agency and curiosity of today’s youth?
At Catalyst Now, we believe:
🔹Access to basic infrastructure for learning is a human right
🔹Learning must become purpose-driven
🔹Students deserve a voice in what they learn and why
It’s time to move from a rigid script to a system that prioritises the diverse needs of future learners.
Insights by: Howard Blumenthal Editors: Ernestine Melha, Emmanuel Chukwunenye Amechi
Read the full story (link in bio).
Are you a young changemaker ready to turn ideas into real community solutions?
Apply now for the next Catalyst Academy cohort.
A 9-month structured pathway that takes you from knowledge to action, through, peer learning circles, applied theory and guided mentorship.
Join us on this journey to move from theory to community-rooted action (link in bio).
