Beyond the Winter Shelter
Last winter the wind chill in Elgin, Illinois hit 41 below. Three winters in, the city's shelter has offered about 18,600 nights of rest - and its partners are asking what happens when the doors open each morning.
Getting People in the Same Room
In Elgin, Illinois, Catalyst Bobby Jackson and Alex Madrid pull nonprofits, churches and city officials into one plan to end chronic homelessness. Their odd measure of success: serving fewer people each week.
A Vision for Sustainable Change
Hector Chavez met Catalyst Nancy Donat as a teen in Lowell, a Fresno, California neighborhood with few paths forward. Now he wants to lead the change she started, and she is doing it again in Hidalgo.
Creating Opportunity Where the Need is Great
A lending library in Bayugan, Philippines, online business training in a Middle East city, a bilingual abuse-awareness task force in Elgin, Illinois. Three local answers to a pandemic that deepened need.
Tables Instead of Walls
In one of Fresno, California’s poorest neighborhoods, youth whose parents fear deportation hosted a Love Feast and invited the police captain. Nancy Donat on choosing a table over a wall.