Social Employment Fund

Making fragmented data speak — so funders could see the whole system.

Supporting nonprofits in South Africa to solve social challenges & increase employment

SEF and its implementation partners were running parallel mapping efforts with no shared infrastructure — each organization seeing only its own slice of a complex system. Catalist served as the connective hub: pulling in data from Miro workshops, enabling bulk curation in Airtable, and pushing the combined map to Kumu for interactive visualization.

Outcomes

Collaborative systems map revealed intervention points no single org could see alone
Vision care delivered to 34 students; 3,165 literacy packs distributed in one coordinated pilot
Additional funding secured because funders could see the collaborative approach clearly

"Catalist's ecosystem mapping platform was so user-friendly that our community was able to immediately create profiles and add 50 regenerative projects, events, and connections to our ecosystem map in 30 minutes — without asking any questions."
Carolina Carvalho · Social Employment Fund

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