All the key terms you may have wondered about!

• Circle: How the collective governance of Catalyst’s delivery work is organised, according to non-hierarchical Sociocracy principles (e.g. consent decision-making)
• Initiative: An activity, service, community or project led by a partner (or network of partners) contributing to the Catalyst ecosystem
• Initiative Lead (IL): Someone leading an initiative that is contributed to Catalyst and part of our collective governance circles. Initiatives are not all funded from the collective pots, but every initiative in a circle will be contributing to that circle’s shared outcomes.
• Ochre: Catalyst’s bespoke reporting tool, currently being redesigned in line with inFocus’s evaluation needs
• Working group (WG): Smaller cross-cutting group feeding into wider Catalyst work
• Working group lead: WG rep, facilitator and vision holder (full definitions here)