Increasing knowledge about catalytic capital and bolstering its deployment – these are the goals of Impact Europe's collaboration with the Catalytic Capital Consortium.  Having already sparked a global discussion, held practitioner gatherings, collected case studies and published Catalysing Impact, we have also taken the community’s vision of catalytic capital to a wider audience. The impact space, mainstream finance and public sector actors can all help address critical social and environmental gaps that are being overlooked. Equipped with insights on what catalytic capital is and how it works, we can now shift the focus to actionable outcomes and collective advancement.

In 2024, we’re following up with a new research project to showcase how capital providers can be additional along the continuum with the capital they deploy. Following up on our whitepaper, Catalysing Impact, this new initiative goes a step further to explain how investors structure their financial support to address gaps in the market and generate additional impact. Read more about it here.  

Highlights in 2024

>New research project on additionality along the spectrum of capital. 

> Focus on impact | season 2 Podcast

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Greatest hits 

>Catalytic Capital Quiz: if you're curious about your current standing with catalytic capital or eager to learn more about different opportunities and how to deploy catalytic capital, we encourage you to take the test.

>Catalysing Impact – whitepaper on how catalytic capital works, why it matters and where we go next   

>Catalytic Capital in Action: case studies, and more to come – Share your experience and learnings!

>Call for consultation to raise awareness beyond practitioners, stimulate the debate and mobilise catalytic resources

>Conversations: We gathered practitioners and key experts from across sectors who helped us understand what catalytic capital is. Events like Sparking a Global Discussion, Catalytic Capital: The Key to Additional Impact, and conversations on catalytic grantmaking (here and here) helped us form a cross-sectoral understanding of catalytic capital.

>Definition: Read our opinion piece on the challenges of defining catalytic capital. 

>Practitioner insights: We engaged with 100+ experts and practitioners from 80 organisations investing globally to explore what catalytic capital means to them, why it matters and what are the main barriers to its adoption. This essential info, along with a number of e-talks, meet-ups and case studies, have directly informed our white paper on the topic and will do so for our upcoming activities!