Impact Catalyst Foundation (ICF) is a US public charity that is part of the Catalyst Group of organisations, headquartered in India. The Catalyst Group was founded in 1994 and is a social enterprise platform focused on the promotion of the health and wealth of vulnerable communities. Our work has spanned over 25 countries across Asia and Africa in multiple domains, including health, livelihood, and climate change.

ICF USA functions as a global platform for the Catalyst Group to engage more effectively with our partners while bringing critical development issues to the forefront of key decision-makers. We work closely with our partner organisations, such as Swasti (public health), Catalyst Management Services (social investments and solutions), Vrutti (livelihood), Green Foundation (regenerative agriculture), Fuzhio (impact marketing), and Upfront (wellbeing of workforces), to scale the impact of their work through catalytic collaborations and investments.

What We Do

The common threads across all our work, be it on health, climate, livelihoods, or social protection, have been:

Thought Leadership

As thought leaders, we build knowledge and perspectives and generate learning. Our multi- and cross-disciplinary experience affords us the ability to draw, process, and share insights across themes and sectors, enriching solutions through diverse lenses.

Build Synergies

We understand that transformation and scale are not possible without partnerships and collaborations. We bridge the worlds of communities, practitioners, thinkers, and investors, and of programme and policy, bringing these together for scale and sustainability.

Catalyse Action

Ethics, integrity, and execution excellence are the pathways towards action that demonstrate quality and dignity for communities. We provide mechanisms for partners in the social sector to remain firmly on these pathways.

ICF strives to bring this thought leadership and impact creation to the attention of our global stakeholders, be they foundations and other donors, governments, or diaspora populations.

Through our existing work and collaborations, ICF will impact the health and wealth of vulnerable communities globally.

Where we work

We work across the domains of livelihood, health, and Wellbeing for the Workforce with deep experience in policy, research, implementation, monitoring, capacity building, strategy, and documentation. We have been working across India and have a global footprint in 25 countries.

Board of Directors

Aparna Sanjay

Aparna leads the US operations of the Catalyst Group of organisations and is responsible for partnerships and fundraising with key stakeholders.

Catherine Cove

Catherine Cove is the Secretary of the Impact Catalyst Foundation. She is a healthcare consultant and second-year MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Angela Choudhuri

Dr. Angela Chaudhuri is a public health leader with over 2 decades of experience leading and mentoring global programs that translate the science of public health into meaningful community action for equitable change.

Shama Karkal

Shama is a social impact professional with 25+ years of experience; her core expertise has been working on community systems strengthening with a focus on marginalised communities.

Raghunathan N

Co-founder of The Catalyst Group of Organisations, a strong proponent of building evidence and innovations to guide development. He has 7 Peer-reviewed/published papers to his name.

Shiv Kumar

Co-founder of The Catalyst group and Chief Integrator of the Community Action Collab, Shiv is a social investor who is passionate about solving complex social problems and improving the health & wealth of vulnerable communities.