Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Sustainable Favela Network Playing Host to One-of-a-Kind 2020 Mayoral Debate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RIO DE JANEIRO’S SUSTAINABLE FAVELA NETWORK PLAYING HOST TO ONE-OF-A-KIND 2020 MAYORAL DEBATE Network of Hundreds of Favela Environmental [...]

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 [...]

Theresa Williamson’s Keynote at Melbourne’s Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change and Cities Symposium

On September 30-October 2, 2020, the Melbourne School of Design Faculty of Architecture of the University of Melbourne, held its Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change [...]

In World Habitat: Brazil’s first Community Land Trust

September 8, 2020—World Habitat features Favela CLT program. Brazil’s first Community Land Trust 8 Sep 2020 Residents of the Trapicheiros favela of Rio de Janeiro are [...]

The Reinvention of Favela Artisans During the Pandemic [VIDEO]

On August 17, the Sustainable Favela Network’s (SFN) Income Generation Working Group hosted the virtual teach-in “How Can Favela Artisans Reinvent Themselves During the [...]

Favelas Hold Teach-In ‘Are Brazilians Without Memory? The Memory of the Pandemic in the Favela’ [VIDEO]

On July 27, the Memory and Culture Working Group of the Sustainable Favela Network (RFS) held the online teach-in “Are Brazilians Without Memory? The Memory of the [...]

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 [...]

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