Catalyst Fund

Positioning Collaboratives to Generate Impact:
An Evaluation of the Catalyst Fund and Collaborative Capacity Investments

By the close of its first six years of grantmaking in 2024, the Catalyst Fund had provided collaborative capacity investments to 85 Landscape Partnerships, including 28 Indigenous-led Partnerships.

In early 2025, we contracted for an independent, third-party evaluation of the Catalyst Fund, to better understand the unique value and contributions of this program, and to explore what if any insights emerge more generally about the relationship between collaborative capacity investments and on the ground landscape outcomes.

Report forthcoming fall 2025…