During our May Community of Practice gathering, Catalyze hosted a conversation on sensible scaling, exploring what it takes to grow impact while maintaining quality, strong partnerships, and long-term sustainability.

When partners take the time to get aligned from the start, everyone benefits. In this Q&A, we unpack how vision-setting shapes stronger employer partnerships and more meaningful learning experiences.

Strong programs start with shared purpose. In this post, we look at how employers and learning providers can collaborate to create experiences that honor learner aspirations while addressing real-world workforce challenges.

Catalyze hosted Jennifer Mellor from the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation, a Catalyze grantee, and Ron Mack from Mayo Clinic for a fireside chat about ElevateEdAZ’s collaboration with Mayo Clinic. Through this relationship, Mayo Clinic employs Arizona high school students as paid interns, offering learners direct experience in health care, IT, and operations roles. 

Catalyze Round Four grantees gathered in New Orleans to kick off their journey with the Catalyze Community of Practice. Read on to learn how these organizations are leveraging their proven impact to scale innovative CCL models fueled by learning, cross-sector collaboration, and a commitment to meaningful learner outcomes.

Birmingham emerged as the ideal location to launch the first regional Catalyze Challenge, embodying the transformative power of localized impact. These initiatives were so successful that Birmingham ran a second round of the challenge and recently announced grantees.

Educate Texas, a grantee from Round Three of the Catalyze Challenge, and Ascension Texas, a national hospital and healthcare system, have built an exemplary employer engagement model in Central Texas that connects high school students with real-world healthcare experiences, delivering impactful results for learners and the community as a whole.

Catalyze grantee Chicago Scholars, and its social enterprise REACH Pathways, were created to address the challenges that diverse, first-generation college students in Chicago may face in achieving a successful future.

nXu has created a research-based middle and high school curriculum that places purpose development at the nexus of career exploration, social-emotional practices, positive identity development, and community building.

UnCommon Construction takes an unconventional approach to the affordable housing crisis…