By: Donna Bransford, Iris Garcia, and Larry Yang There’s a saying in philanthropy: “If you’ve worked at one foundation, you’ve worked at one foundation.” It’s a fairly obvious observation: no two funders are alike, which also means that none of our failures are exactly alike either. For Kataly, our context…

By: Shaena Johnson and Marni Rosen The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) at the Kataly Foundation is a group of nine women of color movement leaders who have a long history of engagement in intersectional environmental and social justice work. After being established at Kataly in 2020, the nine leaders…

This month, the Kataly Foundation redistributed an additional $1.5 million to fortify the reproductive justice efforts of 19 grassroots organizations. Of these 19 organizations, 15 are existing grantees of Kataly. Traditionally, this redistribution of resources would be categorized as rapid response. …

By: Nwamaka Agbo, Lynne Hoey, Lina Shalabi, and Jocelyn Wong What does it look like to be committed to non-extractive investment in a fundamentally extractive financial system? This is a question that we are grappling with as the Restorative Economies Fund (REF), one of the Kataly Foundation’s three program areas…

By: Zaineb Mohammed There are so many ways to fail. We can fail others, fail ourselves, fail at things, fail to do things, and much more. Even though failure is a part of everyone’s life, it often feels like a word we shouldn’t say out loud. As a communicator by…

On Wednesday, May 25, the grants management team at the Kataly Foundation hosted a webinar to discuss the complex power dynamics in the grants administration process, how to build trust into systems, and how funders can ensure that infrastructure serves, rather than challenges, movement groups. We were honored to be…

By: Danielle Royston-Lopez and Ray Holgado Trust is a word we hear a lot in philanthropy right now, particularly with progressive funders. Oftentimes, the conversation about trust-based philanthropy is seen as the purview of program staff at foundations. …

The concept of philanthropic advocacy is not new — people, organizations, and coalitions inside and outside of philanthropy have been organizing funders for many years. However, more recently, the idea of organizing philanthropy has received more attention from mainstream philanthropic institutions, media outlets, and writers. …

On Wednesday, November 10, the Restorative Economies Fund (REF) team at the Kataly Foundation hosted a webinar to discuss how to use capital as a tool for liberation and create shared prosperity instead of individual wealth. …