Catalyst Fund | Lyrasis

"The Catalyst Fund is an award program that provides support for new ideas and innovative projects that advance the mission and reach of Lyrasis member organizations. Initiated by the Lyrasis Leaders Circle, the Fund expands opportunities to explore, test, refine and collaborate on innovations with potential for community-wide impact....

The Catalyst Fund values are those which include: Community-driven projects and projects having community impact; Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; Open source, open access, open sharing of results, and open infrastructure; Cross institutional collaboration.

Subject Specific Tracks or Themes-- The Catalyst Fund supports creative concepts that: Serve the broad interests of the Lyrasis membership; Test-and-try new approaches to shared problems; and Advance important objectives of libraries, archives, museums, and complementary research communities.

Lyrasis is especially interested in projects that provide templates or ideas that can be used to spark innovation, business models, or concepts for the museum, library, archives, or research communities, to solve common or shared challenges..."