Social Impact Partners is a statewide intermediary organization that brings together the people, institutions, and investments needed to solve Connecticut’s most complex challenges.
We work across education, workforce, employer, and early childhood systems - convening government leaders, employers, educators, nonprofits, providers, and communities around shared priorities and coordinated action. But we do more than bring people to the table. We study and learn, advise and implement, using data, research, and direct engagement to identify where systems are breaking down and what it will take to move them forward.
SIP connects local realities with statewide strategy, translates across sectors, and helps partners turn ideas, public investment, and shared commitment into practical results. We are a connector, translator, doer, and catalyst - helping strong organizations work as a stronger system and making progress possible at the scale Connecticut’s challenges require.
Catalyst Foundation has over 20 years of success and struggle in the poorest villages of Southern Vietnam. Founded in 1999, Catalyst Foundation is an American Non-Governmental Organization. Starting in the Mekong Delta, we have had successful projects in Vĩnh Long (1999-2002), Bình Thuận (1999-2002), Hồ Chí Minh City (2003-2004, 2007-2009), Đồng Tháp (2005-2010), and Kiên Giang (2007 - 2013). We have taken that experience and are applying our Holistic programs in Ninh Thuận province (2013 - present).
Our mission is to build communities to fight human trafficking. We work together with our key stakeholders (children, parents, hamlet leaders, caretakers, social workers, and teachers) to prioritize what programs are needed: education, housing, food, job training, debt management and/or emotional support, etc.
As we set long-term objectives for the community, they begin to realize that the poverty, discrimination and dehumanization that they’ve experienced throughout their entire lives, will eventually change to hope and a brighter future for their children.
The main objective of Catalyst Foundation’s Holistic Community Development program is to assist our community in becoming self-sufficient. We firmly believe that the most effective way to break the cycle of poverty is to strategically empower whole communities by educating, providing training and employment, building safe dwellings, and empowering children to stand up with dignity.
The Advancement Foundation is a separate 501(c)(3) Texas non-profit corporation, organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious and educational purposes. As a separate corporation, it is an integrated auxiliary supporting the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, charged with receiving contributions intended to benefit supported activities and managing and distributing such contributions for the benefit of those supported activities.