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CatComm Awarded Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urbanists Prize 2022

On November 26, 2022 Catalytic Communities (CatComm) was awarded the 2022 Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urbanists Prize (FNA—Federação Nacional dos Arquitetos e [...]

CatComm Turns 20!

Thank you to all those who joined us in celebrating Catalytic Communities’ 20th Anniversary! It has been our privilege to have so many incredible people involved with [...]

Don’t Miss Our Full 2019 Annual Report

Dear Friends, Thank ou for making this our most impactful year ever, by far! 2019 was a year of unprecedented growth and unparalleled impact for Catalytic Communities. Click [...]

Support CatComm in 2020

As Catalytic Communities gets ready to celebrate 20 years, the demand for our work is soaring across Rio’s favelas. RioOnWatch.org reporting, Sustainable Favela [...]

Team Bios

Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. Founder & Executive Director Theresa Williamson is a city planner and founding executive director of Catalytic Communities. Theresa is [...]

2018 RioOnWatch Readers Mapped: 214 Countries Represented

RioOnWatch is our award-winning, bilingual community news site and the heart of Catalytic Communities’ communications strategy. We seek to shift the narrative on [...]

CatComm Reporting Policy

Through RioOnWatch reporting and other media work, Catalytic Communities aims “to engender a more accurate picture of favelas, their contributions to the city, and the [...]

RioOnWatch Turns 8!

On this, our 8th birthday, we are setting out to make RioOnWatch financially sustainable by engaging the monthly support of fans like you. Read on to see [...]

Evaluating CatComm’s Approach: Exploring our Impact on Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas

The final evaluation report described and analyzed a list of 27 outcomes in 6 communities. November 1, 2017—Between January and May 2017, Catalytic Communities‘ [...]

CatComm’s Organizational Life Cycle

Catalytic Communities is here to perform a specific sequence of long-term activities that, together, will trigger the desired catalytic effect the organization was launched [...]

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