Our upcoming events

We keep funding solutions. But the shared infrastructure that helps them connect, learn from one another, and grow together rarely gets funded. Building directly on a UNGA funder conversation, this session explores what becomes possible when philanthropy invests in that connective tissue, including how locally led solutions can reach greater scale without losing the local ownership that makes them effective.

How can philanthropy help locally led solutions reach scale without losing what makes them local?

Live interpretation will be available in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.

Some of the biggest barriers to systems change sit beyond the reach of any one funder. When funders move together, they can do more than combine capital. They can align around shared needs, connect complementary efforts, bring different institutions and sectors into the same conversation, share lessons from what they are seeing across portfolios and geographies, and use their collective influence to remove barriers that affect many organisations at once. This session explores what becomes possible when philanthropy acts collectively around challenges that no single funder could address alone.

What can funders unlock together that none of them could achieve alone?

Live interpretation will be available in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.

Funding is only one of the assets philanthropy can bring to social change. Funders can also open doors to governments and businesses, convene actors who would otherwise not meet, connect social innovators to new partners, share lessons from working across different portfolios and geographies, and help effective approaches gain wider visibility and influence. This session asks how philanthropy can put those assets to work in response to what social innovators and ecosystems actually need.

What if the money is only one part of what philanthropy has to offer?

Live interpretation will be available in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.

Ce partage autour de la citoyenneté numérique propose de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des réseaux sociaux au-delà de leur simple utilisation, en s’intéressant à leurs mécanismes et à leurs impacts sur nos usages quotidiens. À partir de cette compréhension, les participants seront amenés à réfléchir aux bonnes pratiques et aux comportements responsables à adopter en ligne, notamment dans la création, le partage et la consommation de contenus. Cet espace d’échange permettra aux participants de partager leurs expériences, leurs pratiques et leurs réflexions autour des réseaux sociaux.

The General Assembly (GA) is the movement’s main forum for sharing ideas and information, celebrating successes, and shaping its direction. It advises the Governing Council on strategy, council appointments, annual plans, and other matters. The GA emphasises consensus-based decision-making, ensuring inclusive participation.

The GA convenes virtually on the last Wednesday of the month, co-chaired by two leaders from the Governance Councils. All Catalyst Now members are welcome to join and to offer feedback on the movement’s direction and share updates on collaborations, advocacy efforts, and events.

Catalysts 4 Climate Monthly Collaboration Sessions bring changemakers, working across diverse thematic areas—including food systems and agriculture, climate and health, disaster response and migration, circular economy and materials, and climate learning and awareness — together to build meaningful connections, share practical solutions, and turn collective learning into action. Through Thematic Action Pods and cross-network exchange, participants explore opportunities to scale and replicate solutions, build partnerships, identify funding opportunities and policy priorities, and strengthen collective advocacy. Each session is designed to move from connection → learning → collaboration → action, with concrete opportunities and next steps emerging from every conversation.

VUKARA is a platform that connects women entrepreneurs in the Global Majority with expertise, networks, and capital. This session will showcase how backers can contribute their valuable time and networks as a form of business backing in addition to capital via VUKARA that is currently piloting with women entrepreneurs in Kenya.

We know impact-led works. This session explores the full potential we can unlock when we shift how we think and act that way across the entire system. In this 90-minute regenerative dialogue, local implementers, social impact investors, and coalition builders share lived experience on what’s working, what’s broken, and what needs to change for impact-led to become the norm. Join us to move beyond talk and toward real systems change.

Blended finance is fast becoming the backbone of sustainable impact work. This panel maps the shift from grants to blended finance and impact loans, drawing on tuiFund partners across Australia, the US, and Kenya, plus a live case study from an environmental enterprise. Attendees leave with a framework for their next step.

Collaborative funding models are increasingly framed as vehicles for localization and power-shifting in philanthropy and development. Yet the language of trust-based, African-led collaboration has outpaced the infrastructure needed to make it real. Many collaboratives move money differently without changing who holds decision-making power, who bears risk, or who is accountable to whom — reproducing the same intermediary dynamics they were built to replace.
This session explores what it means to design collaborative funding models without capture.
Participants will work through:
What distinguishes a collaborative that redistributes decision-making power from one that redistributes only funding flows
What governance and accountability have to be true — structurally — for shared decision-making to hold under pressure
Where existing African-led collaboratives have built real enforcement or feedback mechanisms, and where the absence of one has quietly reintroduced old dynamics
The session will draw on SFP’s ongoing work on lack of accountability infrastructures as a central structural problem in the social sector, alongside the researchers and practitioners on collaborative funding in the room — aiming to leave participants with a working set of conditions for evaluating any collaborative model they’re part of, rather than a general endorsement of the collaborative approach itself.