To mobilize and leverage the collective expertise in education to strengthen schools, school systems, and education nonprofits to ensure equity and excellence for all kids.
Over this period, catalyst:ed helped 251 schools, school systems, and nonprofits connect with and leverage specialized technical assistance to build organizational capacity. Specific activities included: (1) conducting consultations with organization leaders to help them diagnose their challenges and identify specific high-leverage projects where they can benefit from expert help (2) facilitating connections with a curated list of providers with the right mix of skills and experiences needed for capacity building project (3) granting funds to support the completion of projects, and (4) post-project completion, capturing lessons through our reflection and feedback process. To enable this work, catalyst:ed continued to support its network of 798 providers. 84 percent of projects that were matched in this period fully met their goals and 11 percent mostly met their goals. Catalyst:ed also generated several memos and reports based on its work to inform the field.