Katherine Fulton

Katherine is dedicated to recruiting, coordinating and inspiring Catalyst’s team, partners and donors. Together with wife, Katharine Kunst, she has had a home in Sonoma for more than 25 years and has called it home since 2013. During that time, Katherine has volunteered for and advised many Valley nonprofits including Impact100 Sonoma. In 2022 she received the National Philanos Willoughby Award in recognition for her leadership in philanthropy and the founding of Catalyst Fund.

Katherine Fulton has been a leading strategic advisor to foundations, high-net-worth donors, major nonprofits and rising social entrepreneurs for the past 30 years. She spent a decade building Monitor Institute into one of the nation’s leading social sector consulting firms, and has published and spoken widely on the future of philanthropy, impact investing, and social change.

Previously Katherine was a journalist and entrepreneur, co-founding an award-winning, alternative newspaper in the American South where she grew up. Her conviction in the early 1990s that the internet would transform journalism led her to join Global Business Network in California, where she advised leaders in journalism and more than a dozen other industries as they sought to adapt more skillfully to rapid change.

Katherine has also devoted a great deal of time to volunteer work, serving on more than a dozen boards. Along with co-chairing Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund she also serves currently as board chair of Commonweal, the visionary 50-year-old nonprofit based in Bolinas that operates 30 programs working to reduce suffering today while planting the seeds of a better long-term future.

In whatever leadership role she finds herself, Katherine aspires to enlarge the possibilities that groups and leaders embrace while grounding action in rigor and reality.