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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. Founder & Executive Director Theresa Williamson is a city planner and founding executive director of Catalytic Communities. Theresa is [...]
RioOnWatch is our award-winning, bilingual community news site and the heart of Catalytic Communities’ communications strategy. We seek to shift the narrative on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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‘ [...]
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 [...]
Catalytic Communities engages in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD). Here we highlight some of the primary differences between the traditional deficit-based community [...]