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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
Catalytic Communities engages in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). Here we highlight some of the primary differences between the traditional deficit-based community [...]