Catalyst's services can help your community grow and your organization succeed
Community + Economic Development
Community Planning + Placemaking
Business Recruitment + Retention
Branding + Marketing
Message + Materials Development
Neighborhood + Issue-Oriented Events
Strategic Planning
Mission + Values Statements
Staff Management + Mentoring
Capacity Building
Board Development
Advocacy + Resource Development
Lobbying Strategies + Campaigns
Grant Writing
Budgeting
Fundraising Plans + Implementation
Community + Economic Development
Community Planning
Community members and stakeholders are more likely to get what they want when they collaborate to create a vision for their neighborhood or business district. Catalyst facilitates design charrettes, strategic planning processes and public meetings to help you create a vision with a plan that matches your values and goals.
Business Recruitment + Retention
Whether you need to recruit certain businesses to round out your business district or develop programs to help keep your current businesses, Catalyst can work with you to develop and implement a custom-made plan that is appropriate for you.
Branding + Marketing
Defining your image and conveying it in the right ways plays a big role in helping people understand how you view your community and what you want it to be. Catalyst can lead you through a creative decision-making process to help you determine an develop your community’s brand, as well as a plan to market it within the resources you have.
Messages + Materials
Telling the story of your neighborhood or business district will help promote your interests succinctly and effectively. Catalyst can help you develop clear, inspirational messages and materials that work to inspire others to value the people and places you care about.
Events
The right event, highlighting the the issues you care about or spirit of your neighborhood or business district, can work to instill a sense of place, set and lead a discussion, and increase community spirit. Catalyst helps you determine which events are a good fit for you and then works with you to produce them well.
Organizational Development
Strategic Planning
Coming to agreement on the goals, strategies and tactics of your organization will help ensure you’re collaborative, productive, and successful. Catalyst can lead a strategic planning process that captures the collective wisdom of everyone involved with your organization and helps you develop a plan that all can agree to and participate in.
Mission + Values Statements
Composing mission and values statements that everyone can agree on work well to inspire your team and help you succeed. Catalyst will facilitate a creative decision-making process that enables you to formulate succinct, inspiring statements that ground your work.
Staff Management + Mentoring
Strong organizations leverage the time and talent of both volunteers and staff members towards the collaborative implementation of programs and projects. Catalyst will work to empower all participants to fully engage and grow their skill-sets while keeping teams accountable to deadlines and measurable outcomes.
Capacity Building
Communities are constantly changing and organizations need to add skills to keep pace with the new demands that arise. Catalyst can help your team grow their skills and expertise through trainings, planning, and meeting facilitation. Whether you need help with programmatic work, project design, fundraising or economic development strategies, we can help you build on your talents and get more done.
Board Development
Because boardmembers set the strategic direction of your organization, they have much to say about how effective your work will be. Making sure they have the right skill-sets to meet your needs is important. Catalyst can help you recruit an appropriate mix of people and train them to work as a team to meet the needs of your organization.
Advocacy + Resource Development
Lobbying Strategies + Campaigns
Knowing who you need to persuade, which messages will bring them to your side, and how you can best deliver your case is essential to getting decision makers to support your goals. Catalyst will help you navigate your political lay of the land and deliver convincing arguments to the people whom you want to take action for you.
Budgeting
Stable organization management over the long-term requires strategies for financial sustainability. Catalyst will work with your leadership to build budgets and plans that ensure the responsible management of your finances and continuing functionality of your organization.
Grant Writing
Grants provide invaluable resources that help you conduct program work and build organizational capacity. Catalyst can help you develop working relationships with the right funders and draft inspiring proposals that fund and support your work and your mission.
Fundraising
Visionary organizations create opportunities for local stakeholders to support the continuation and growth of their initiatives through monetary donations. Catalyst will work with you to develop and implement fundraising plans to engage supporters and meet your financial goals.
