Our approach to capacity building ultimately seeks to foster:

• Resilient change agents within Black and Indigenous communities, and all communities of color
• Highly collaborative teams and partnerships that can sustain and evolve in the face of new and changing conditions; and
• Enduring community assets that create shared prosperity, self-determination, and power.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions about our capacity building offerings.

Securing the Roots

Securing the Roots is a virtual six-week cohort-model program that aims to expand the fundraising capacity for community-based organizations, with an emphasis on groups who have less than 5 years experience mobilizing resources. 

This program is free and includes a stipend of $2,500 per individual/organization from Securing the Roots. 

As part of the cohort, participants will…

• Build individual and collective capacities to generate and recognize resources for their work
• Learn methods of identifying resources that can immediately be put into practice
• Workshop specific resource generating and mobilizing projects involving their organizations
• Embolden themselves and others to shift the way that they see and think about fundraising
• Ask and answer questions to help inform the ways their organizations generate and mobilize resources
• Have candid conversations with foundation staff, individual donors, and others within philanthropy and donor organizers

Kataly is offering this cohort to active grantees from February 7th – March 14th. Applications are due January 10th.  

For access to the application or general questions, please contact [email protected].

Raise for Good

Raise for Good encourages and supports leaders to create big visions for impact and leverage strategy, storytelling, and scale to realize that vision. Raise for Goods Capacity Building “Bootcamp” Program is a 10-week cohort-based learning program. This program is designed to align with your needs as an organization and to help grow you and your team’s leadership and thought partnership skills.

We have partnered with Raise for Good to offer the Bootcamp experience with custom programming and technical support for approximately 15 Kataly grantees annually. This invite-only offering is designed specifically for the leaders of Kataly grantee organizations (1) that are in the start-up (or restart-up) phase and growing; and/or (2) for which Kataly is the largest funder.  As a spend-out foundation, it is especially important to us to support groups in achieving financial independence and self-determination for the long haul.

At this time, participation in this program remains invite-only. If you are interested and think this program is right for you, please discuss with your program contact at Kataly. 

Purpose Possible

Purpose Possible transforms communities by empowering mission-driven organizations. Recognizing that community ownership and stewardship of land is essential to healing and building power in Black, Indigenous, and all communities of color, Kataly and Purpose Possible launched Rebuilding Capital Campaigns, a program to support Kataly grantees and borrowers who are dreaming about, planning for, actively running capital campaigns. 

The pilot cohort ran from May through November 2023. If you are seeking resources, you are free to access the recordings for the program’s introductory workshops series here. In 2024, we plan to make available some of the resources that were developed through the first run of programming and to launch a second cohort. Check back for updates!

If you have questions about Rebuilding Capital Campaigns, please contact us at [email protected].