The key to accelerating social change in emerging markets lies in leveraging the abundance of resources that already exist within those contexts. Among these are young people’s passion and innovative ideas for developing their communities. This interactive panel...
Catalyst 2030's
Catalysing Change Week 2024
Building the Social Innovation Sector
6 - 10 May 2024
Powering net-zero growth in rural Africa
Solar microgrids are the lowest cost option for ending energy poverty for 800 million people. The World Bank says the potential is for 200,000 microgrids, yet only 19,000 exist today - $200 billion in investment is needed, yet only $5 billion has been deployed. The...
Systemic Change Driven by MSMEs and Artisans in Order to Achieve the SDGs
Hecho por Nosotros and its guests will discuss how decentralized finance and new collaborations with MSMEs and indigenous populations can drive the systemic change necessary to reach the Sustainable Development Goals set by the 2030 Agenda. The event will focus on...
COVID-19 Catalyzing Recovery of Social and Community Enterprises
Catalyzing Recovery of Social and Community Enterprises for Transformation (CRESCENT): A Global Initiative for Social Enterprise Recovery and Innovation Call to Action Set-up a global program and fund to assist social enterprises and their marginalized stakeholders to...
Economic Resilience as the Pivot for Gender, Climate, Equity
Industree is hosting a virtual session at Catalysing Change Week on May 12, 2022, anchored with the support from USAID, moderated to gather best practices, perspectives and solutions for ensuring the successful integration of gender, climate and equity components and...
Next financing paradigm for systemic change
*presentation of the conclusions of a study on the needs of funders in relation to systemic change - authored by "The Systems Sanctuary" with Illuminate Network, as a basis for a wider discussion on the impact of these needs on the creation of new funding models...
Accelerating African Philanthropy and Systems Change
An informative discussion led by various key discussants with deeply rooted insight and experience on philanthropy, social change, movement building, inclusion and transformation, all talking about the impact that home grown African based philanthropy would have in...
Building Bridges for Impact & Launch of StartPoint
The objective of the Session: To discuss the importance of a platform such as StartPoint and spotlight other critical components for building a robust NGO sector across Africa. Through this launch event, we hope to increase awareness among funders and non-profit...
Sharing Social Innovation Best Practices: Teaching & Training Resources for SE
First educators from around the world will share best practices and experiential learning opportunities to engage students and community members to learn social entrepreneurship concepts. To curate knowledge and existing resources, the Catalyst 2030 partnered with...