Committed to Reconciliation in Canada
For nearly 60 years, Catalyste+ has partnered with Indigenous communities, businesses, and governments across Canada. That history has shaped how we understand reconciliation: not as a single event or a box to check, but as an ongoing practice of listening, showing up, and doing the work.
Reconciliation Action Plan
Miyo-wîcîwitowin — Cree for “Walking Together in a Good Way” — is Catalyste+’s formal, multi-year Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). While our work alongside Indigenous partners goes back decades, this plan represents a new level of commitment: specific, measurable actions in the spirit of reconciliation.
Intention for Reconciliation
Our Reconciliation Action Plan is a public, evolving commitment to walk alongside Indigenous Peoples through shared leadership, community-defined priorities, and the ongoing work of truth, healing, and justice. Our work is an act of reconciliation in motion — building trust, exchanging knowledge, and turning intention into everyday practice.
Our Reconciliation Timeline
Reconciliation at Catalyste+ isn’t a single initiative — it’s a thread that runs through nearly six decades of work. Some of the milestones along that path:
- 1969 — Catalyste+ (then known as CESO-SACO) completed its first volunteer assignment in partnership with an Indigenous community, the starting point of a relationship that continues today.
- Early 2000s — Our work expanded significantly across the North, partnering with Indigenous communities, businesses, and organizations in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
- Ongoing — Our Indigenous and Northern Services program connects Catalyste+ advisors with Indigenous entrepreneurs, businesses, and governments at no cost to our partners.
- 2024 — We launched Miyo-wîcîwitowin (“Walking Together in a Good Way”), our formal, multi-year Reconciliation Action Plan — a shift from decades of informal commitment to a specific, accountable set of actions.
- September 30 each year — We mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by pausing our regular work to reflect, share Indigenous-authored resources with our network, and recommit publicly to the actions in our plan.
How Canadians Can Support Reconciliation
Reconciliation isn’t something Catalyste+ can do alone, and we don’t think it should be. There are a few ways to walk this path with us.
If you’re an Indigenous business, community, or government
Our advisory services are free of charge. We offer support across many areas, including governance, strategic planning, HR, and navigating complex projects like resource development. We work on your terms, toward your goals.
Request Our ServicesIf you’re a volunteer professional
Catalyste+ advisors bring decades of combined expertise, offered as mentorship rather than direction. If you have skills in business, governance, or organizational development and want to put them toward meaningful, community-led work, we’d like to hear from you.
Become a Catalyste+ AdvisorIf you’re a donor or corporate partner
Supporting our Indigenous and Northern Services program directly funds free advisory work in communities that often can’t access this kind of support elsewhere.
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