Catalyst Youth Growing Businesses

Catalyst Youth Growing Businesses is a new "incubator" initiative whereby youth-created and led individual businesses, programs and projects receive support and technical assistance to develop into independent non profit and for profit small and medium sized enterprises. This initiative is part of Catalyst’s broader work on supporting individual innovation and entrepreneurship in young adults.

Catalyst is currently incubating and developing:

• Heart of Chaos (HOC) Artisan Collective for emerging artists
• Dark Matter Art Online Gallery for emerging artist/HOC founder Curtis Manzano
  
• On the Edge Publishing Co. for emerging poets and writers and their mentors
• On the Edge Design Studio, a full service graphic design shop run by emerging designer
• Knock out Productions, a recording label company by musician and recording engineer Brian Oden
• Revolve an anime inspired magazine created by Nicole Cole
• Soul Revolution, a magazine created by emerging designer Freddie Vega that employs the talents of emerging writers, poets, and graphic designers to highlight emerging creatives in all mediums.

Catalyst seeks funds for capacity building of its incubator initiative and to develop knowledge resources for incubator-grown business managers and address the financial constraints faced by entrepreneurs and new businesses. Its special emphasis on the need of under recognized and underserved teens and young adults to develop their creative voice and share it with the community is aligned with research on building community and connection with marginalized and alienated youth.