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 Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation: Adapting Typical Nonprofit Approaches to the Field Catalyst Context

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

Field Catalyst Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation: Adapting Typical Nonprofit Approaches to the Field Catalyst Context

Organizational transitions

A Framework for Strong, Field-Minded Endings