Updates

August 11, 2020 PRESS RELEASE—COVID-19 IN FAVELAS UNIFIED DASHBOARD 2nd PRESS CONFERENCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [RELEASE IN PDF] COVID-19 IN FAVELAS UNIFIED DASHBOARD WILL HOLD ITS SECOND PRESS CONFERENCE THIS THURSDAY, 8/13 ‘BEHIND THE FAVELA CORONAVIRUS [...]

Resilient Favela Community Organizations During the Pandemic: Hear the Activists Speak [VIDEO]

On July 16, the Sustainable Favela Network’s (SFN) Environmental Education Working Group held the online teach-in “How has Socio-Environmental Mobilization in the [...]

Transformation of Basic Sanitation in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Debated at Online Teach-In [VIDEO]

On July 9, Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) Water and Sewerage Working Group held an online teach-in event, “Perspectives on the Transformation of Basic [...]

Online Lectures for your Students on Rio de Janeiro Favelas by Dr. Theresa Williamson, founder of CatComm

Since 2010, Catalytic Communities’ Executive Director, Theresa Williamson, Ph.D., has given lectures at universities around the world on a range of topics related to [...]

July 7, 2020—COVID-19 IN FAVELAS UNIFIED DASHBOARD LAUNCHED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [RELEASE IN PDF] RIO DE JANEIRO’S COVID-19 IN FAVELAS UNIFIED DASHBOARD TO LAUNCH JULY 9 Initiative unites diverse peripheral collectives and [...]

NOW AVAILABLE—ON COMMON GROUND: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust

June 30, 2020—Just out, On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust is a collection of twenty-six original essays, written by forty-two [...]

Looking to Help Rio Favelas Mitigate the Effects of Covid-19? There Are Many Ways To Help

With the arrival of Covid-19 in Rio de Janeiro, building awareness and actions to mitigate the risks that the disease poses to the health and economy of the favelas is [...]

NEW PUBLICATION—Favela vs. Asphalt: Suggesting a New Lens

March 1, 2020 Now available “Favela vs. Asphalt: Suggesting a New Lens on Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas and Formal City” chapter by Catalytic Communities’ [...]

Join CatComm at the 2020 World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi—And Vote for Us by the 11th!

The 10th World Urban Forum will be held in Abu Dhabi from February 8-13, 2020. Organized and convened by UN-Habitat, the World Urban Forum has become the foremost [...]

Catalytic Communities Provides Training Course for SESC Community Development Workers [IMAGES]

SESC participants with Vila Autódromo leaders. Photo by Luiza de Andrade

From December 16-18, Catalytic Communities (CatComm) held a training program for 10 representatives of Brazil’s national Social Commerce Service (SESC). The three-day, [...]

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