Member profiles
A recognizable home for the people taking part.
Community / an open invitation
Good work deserves a clear way in.
We want to make useful digital space for nonprofits, neighborhood projects, and people organizing around something they believe in—without pretending we already have a roster.
What we believe
Local strength is shared.
The city works better when good work is easier to discover, understand, and join. Our community practice is still forming, and we’d rather be transparent about that than put borrowed partner names on a page.
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Listen first
Understand the people, place, and constraints before designing a solution.
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Make access easier
Turn a good mission into a clear invitation for volunteers, supporters, and neighbors.
03
Leave something useful
Build a foundation the people doing the work can actually keep using.
Digital room to grow into
Community infrastructure, when the community is ready.
Through the Soltra platform, we can support member profiles, organized channels, voice rooms, and useful notifications. Those capabilities exist; an active Austin Catalyst member community does not yet—and we will not pretend otherwise.
Focused channels
Organized rooms for projects, topics, and shared knowledge.
Voice spaces
A way to talk together when a thread is not enough.
Useful notifications
Opt-in updates that help people return at the right moment.
There’s room at the table