Our Lessons Learned and Frameworks
Below are resources featuring some of our lessons learned and frameworks for field-minded strategy and organizational transitions. These are pieces we have authored or co-authored.
Field building practice
Agenda-setting as a Field Catalyst: Listening To and Organizing the Field
Field Catalysts and Field Funding: A Politically Sensitive and Essential Function
Field Catalyst Communications: A Core Enabler of Field-Level Impact
Student Experience Research Network (SERN): Lessons from SERN’s Final Field Building Grant Portfolio
Designing Inclusive Scholarly Events that Foster Relationships and Engagement Across Silos
Student Experience Research Network’s Funder Briefing Resource Suite
Field building strategy
Launching a Field Catalyst: Creating Favorable Conditions for Field-Level Impact
Field Catalyst Strategy: Designing Strategies and Organizations that Can Adapt and Evolve
Funding field building
Funding a Field Catalyst: Engaging Funders to Build Durable Buy-In
An Inside Look at the Partnership Between Funders and Field Catalysts
Field Catalysts: The Versatile, Essential Tool Missing from Philanthropy’s Systems Change Toolbox
Sharing Power in Philanthropic Relationships to Enhance Impact
Organizational development to support field building
Field Catalyst Staffing: Building and Sustaining a Team of Bridgers and Organizers