Catalysis

Last week we were the lead featured partner at Microsoft’s Supplier Sustainability Summit, a virtual summit designed to empower Microsoft Suppliers in reducing emissions. We were selected for our use of existing natural resources and historical buildings to reduce emissions, along with reducing construction needs and improving health benefits of employees. We’re proud to work from our 100+ year old church. It’s more modern than you’d think😉

Redhook Brewery Lagersquatch just took GOLD this year at the 2023 Craft Beer Marketing Awards for Best Brand Identity / Use of Icon or Mascot In Logo or Branding!

The Catalysis team designed, named and formed the original concept, teaming up with illustrator Dan Lehman to bring this gentle good time giant to life.

Cheers and proud to win a Gold Crushy alongside our great clients Jason Dodson and Britney Hicks.

As we celebrate Black History Month, we at Catalysis reflect on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. While we know notable figures often spotlighted during Black History Month, we’ve made it a goal to dig deeper and recognize those who have helped shape our world’s technology, creative, and how we live our day-to-day lives.

Each Friday this month, we’ll be highlighting a few historical figures that you may not know, but absolutely should. This week’s theme is TRAILBLAZERS:

Bayard Rustin led social movements for socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. In the 1950’s and 60’s, Rustin was a key strategist of the Civil Rights Movement. In partnership with Martin Luther King Jr., he helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and was the key organizer in the 1963 March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As a gay man, Rustin was attacked as a "pervert" and "immoral” by opponents as well as black leaders. This led him to become an advocate for gay and le***an rights in the 1980s. In 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his breadth of activism in his lifetime.

Dorothy Height was known as an architect of the Civil Rights movement. As president of the National Council of Negro Women, she focused on ending the lynching of African Americans and restructuring the criminal justice system. For 40 years, she led the NCNW in supporting voter registration, and aiding key civil rights activists across the country. Her experience in activism and organizing made her a trusted advisor of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Height was highly decorated for her decades of service to our country, including the Presidential Medal of freedom.

As we celebrate Black History Month, we at Catalysis reflect on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. While we know notable figures often spotlighted during Black History Month, we’ve made it a goal to dig deeper and recognize those who have helped shape our world’s technology, creative, and how we live our day-to-day lives.

Each Friday this month, we’ll be highlighting a few historical figures that you may not know, but absolutely should.

This week’s theme is INVENTORS:

Dr. Charles Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war. As the most prominent African American in the field, Drew protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as it lacked scientific foundation, and resigned his position with the American Red Cross, which maintained the policy until 1950.

Alice H. Parker was a Black inventor in the early 20th-century, best known for patenting a central heating system that uses natural gas. Her invention played a key role in the development of the heating systems we have in our homes today. She was born in 1895 in Morristown, New Jersey, and later attended classes at Howard University in Washington, D.C. To receive a higher education as a Black woman at the time was an achievement in itself. Parker’s legacy endures with the annual Alice H. Parker Women Leaders in Innovation Awards via the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes the contributions of women to innovation in New Jersey, Parker’s home state.

Catalysis is thankful for our clients, who spark our creativity, and our team of talented individuals who come together to Listen, Build, and Tell. Happy Thanksgiving!