The Catalyst Fund
Identifying high-potential solutions to systemic challenges.
Catalyst fund
The Catalyst Fund is our innovation space. We identify locally-led initiatives with high potential but early-stage evidence. Our goal is to provide the seed capital and technical support needed to prove the logic of the model in a real-world context.
Investor Profile
Ideal for innovation-driven donors comfortable with early-stage risk in exchange for breakthrough potential.
The Goal
Validating the evidence base to move toward the Momentum phase.
Featured solutions
Environmental Health
Indonesia
An initiative to achieve significant reductions in childhood stunting through improvements in biological and socio-economic factors
Pradet and KOKOSA!
Timor-Leste
A piloted model for community-led gender-based violence prevention, social norm change and socio-economic reintegration
Nourishing Hub
Vietnam and Nepal
A structured food rescue and distribution system to address interconnected issues of food insecurity, food waste, and emissions growth.
Investor stories
Action on Poverty is a philanthropy specialist and high-impact accelerator dedicated to effective, scalable, and measurable solutions to global poverty.
Aligning
your investments
Our model focuses on three distinct phases of development, allowing philanthropic investment to be allocated according to evidence and risk appetite.
Testing high-potential Big Bets in real-world contexts.
Strengthening and refining models with emerging success.
Growing proven solutions to achieve systemic, long-term impact for millions.