The role of mental health is critical to advancing meaningful change in the issues that matter deeply to us: human rights, education, gender equity, workforce development, and more. Join us for a session featuring practitioner leaders in Bangladesh, Ghana, and the...
Catalyst 2030's
Catalysing Change Week 2024
Building the Social Innovation Sector
6 - 10 May 2024
When We Thrive, Our World Thrives – Stories of Young People from India
A critical lens missing from most education reform narratives, particularly in India, is cildhood adversity and how education ecosystems need to transform, adapt and be better prepared to respond to this fundamental challenge. However, young people have tremendous...
Circularity in Fashion: Incorporating Social and Inclusive Narratives
A gender lens approach in circularity can greatly benefit companies to identify solutions that can help them move toward SDG12, while also focusing on SDG5 and SDG8 and contributing to SDG1 and SDG 9. A great deal of importance has been given to understanding the...
Equipping funders in systems change
Equip you and your team in systems change capacity to effect lasting change! In 2021, the School of System Change set out to build an online learning environment for change funders from philanthropy, impact investors and the public sector to build systems change...
Equipping APAC funders with systems change capacity
Explore systems change with peer funders in the APAC and equip you and your team in systems capacity to effect lasting change! In 2021, the School of System Change set out to build an online learning experience for funders in the US, UK, and Europe around systems...
The Role of Higher Education in Addressing the Global Refugee Crisis
"Inclusive Internationalization and the Role of Higher Education in Addressing the Global Refugee Crisis" Universities are sites for knowledge creation and mobilization. They are centers where education can transition to awareness building and advocacy, with potential...
The Role of Indigenous Artists and Filmmakers in Achieving the SDGs
Although Canada was recently designated the 6th richest country in the world by McKenzie and Company, it stands 21st in its progress on achieving the SDGs. One of the biggest reasons for this lag has been the treatment of Canada’s minorities and Indigenous peoples who...
The Growth of Impact Venture Capital
Fireside chat meeting with impact venture capital fund managers - Educate the global Catalyst Network on the new movement in venture capital that is uniting social capital and venture capital in a disruptive new way - Teach how the measurement of the triple bottom...
Engaging private sector towards addressing malnutrition
Increasingly, the dialogue on the multi-dimensional issues around malnutrition have started recognizing the need for cross-sectoral approaches- including the role of the private sector. There has been an increase in the involvement of the private sector in improving...
Systems Change Strategy Development (Training)
This session is based on the Ashoka Globalizer systems change approach and will present as well as kick-start a training on the newly published open source Ashoka Systems Change Masterclass. You will take away ideas about how to start crafting your own systems change...