The Report

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Annual Impact Report

An update on progress across Catalyst. Thanks to our evaluation partners, inFocus, and all partners who contributed data and insight.

Between 2023-24, Catalyst had over 30 activities, including initiatives, research projects and working groups, and we engage with 90 core partners to deliver these activities.

Key Areas of Focus, April 2023 - March 2024

Enhancing the digital capabilities of nonprofits

Promoting reuse practices

Fostering collaborative networks

Inclusion and equitable tech practices

Transition to Community Interest Company (CIC)

Strategic reviews and new mission adoption

A purple tree that illustrates catalyst roots and fruits model. Initiative circles are the fruits of the tree represented by red strawberries, red hearts and red apples with black tops. On the top of the tree there is a text Collaborative Network circle with hearts with different initiatives within them, on the left there is support and training text with apples/red circles around it that contain different initiatives and on the right there is reuse infrastructure circle with strawberries around it that also contain different initiatives. On the trunk of the tree there is the core text and in the roots there are Funder Ecology, Learning and Impact and Inclusion.

Changes

Organisational Transition: Completed strategic review and transition to CIC, focusing on liberatory technology and community-centred digital decision-making.

Support and Training Circle: Increased digital skills and practical knowledge among charities, leading to improved digital practices and safeguarding processes.

Reuse Circle: Successful promotion of reuse culture, resulting in better resource allocation and stronger partnerships.

Collaborative Networks Circle: Creation of diverse, inclusive spaces for knowledge sharing, expanding professional networks, and new ways of working.

Our Lessons

Inclusive Practices: Inclusion must be embedded from the beginning, with a focus on power-shifting and community engagement.

Decolonial Evaluation: We must democratise how we think about learning, impact, and who decide what's important.

Importance of Collaboration: Collaboration and knowledge sharing are crucial for capacity building in the nonprofit sector.

Strategic Evolution: What most needs catalysing now in the sector is focusing on the intersection of tech and power.

Highlights

Support and Training Circle

Catalyst Resources: 172 sign-ups for user research courses, 17 articles created, and 13,095 resource page views.

The Curve: 2,628 training registrations, 40 online training sessions.

Digital Candle: 310 matches to volunteer digital experts, 702 experts registered.

Collaborative Network Circle

Tech For Good Organisers Network: Diverse and inclusive spaces for knowledge sharing.

Knowledge Exchange Initiatives: Participants gained skills and confidence to apply new knowledge.

Community Engagement: Identified conditions for successful community engagement.

Reuse Circle

Open Working Practices: Enhanced understanding and implementation of open working concepts.

Infrastructure and Open IP: Reduced development time and costs for charities and funders.

Shared Digital Guides: Sourced and published practical solutions for addressing community challenges, by and for nonprofits.

All initiatives

950 support touchpoints* delivered, e.g. training workshops, matches to peers, experts or digital agencies, resources, community meetups.

50,868 instances* of people supported, e.g. workshop/training, attendances, page/resource views.

*Some of these may be the same people due to accessing multiple services.

Collaborative Network Circle

Tech For Good Organisers Network: Diverse and inclusive spaces for knowledge sharing.

Knowledge Exchange Initiatives: Participants gained skills and confidence to apply new knowledge.

Community Engagement: Identified conditions for successful community engagement.

What’s next for Catalyst

Sustaining Connections: Maintain and strengthen connections within the wider ecosystem to amplify efforts.

Inclusive Digital Future: Build on insights to promote more equitable tech practices in collaboration with communities and funders.

Strategic Initiative Continuation: Focus on six core initiatives and contribute to new projects.

Revised focus: Building on the Tech Justice research, work to shift power to communities most affected by harmful technologies to shape a more tech-just future.