The Catalytic Philanthropy Podcast
Sep 26, 2026 · 31 min · 8 segments
Discover how lean funders can nurture the fundamental conditions for any systems-change effort, no matter the specific issue or goal - by helping to build the civic culture of their community. By…
Rich HarwoodGuest
Andy CarrollHost
You know, there are so many ways that funders, their grantees and communities can work with us.
And we're trying to make our work as accessible and affordable as possible for everyone.
So, for instance, funders who are listening to us could join what we call our Harwood Circle for Catalytic Funders.
We have free virtual events all the time that they can plug into to to augment how they're thinking about how to be catalytic.
We can do local labs and virtual labs for individual funders, for your grantees, for your communities, where people can learn the approach of turning outward that folks in Alamance and Reading and communities all across this country have learned.
Funders can take part in our Harwood Catalytic Guide program for funders, for their grantees, for folks in their communities, which is a very deep dive into developing a catalytic mindset and set of behaviors, both to guide others, to think about your grant making, to think about working with communities.
And like we did in Reading and Alamance, we can undertake a community initiative, what the Institute calls community initiatives, which can both reshape how a community's civic culture is taking form and how we can strengthen it, as well as make sure that a community is addressing what really matters to people in communities.
There are some communities that have peeled off one or two pieces of the ways in which we can work together.
There are some communities that are just doing a single part of these activities.
Our goal, as I've mentioned earlier, our public mission is to spread a new approach for how we can address what really matters to people in communities and strengthen the civic culture of communities all across America.
You know, there are so many ways that funders, their grantees and communities can work with us.
And we're trying to make our work as accessible and affordable as possible for everyone.
So, for instance, funders who are listening to us could join what we call our Harwood Circle for Catalytic Funders.
We have free virtual events all the time that they can plug into to to augment how they're thinking about how to be catalytic.
We can do local labs and virtual labs for individual funders, for your grantees, for your communities, where people can learn the approach of turning outward that folks in Alamance and Reading and communities all across this country have learned.
Funders can take part in our Harwood Catalytic Guide program for funders, for their grantees, for folks in their communities, which is a very deep dive into developing a catalytic mindset and set of behaviors, both to guide others, to think about your grant making, to think about working with communities.
And like we did in Reading and Alamance, we can undertake a community initiative, what the Institute calls community initiatives, which can both reshape how a community's civic culture is taking form and how we can strengthen it, as well as make sure that a community is addressing what really matters to people in communities.
There are some communities that have peeled off one or two pieces of the ways in which we can work together.
There are some communities that are just doing a single part of these activities.
Our goal, as I've mentioned earlier, our public mission is to spread a new approach for how we can address what really matters to people in communities and strengthen the civic culture of communities all across America.
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