Katherine Fulton

Founder

Steering Committee, Co-Chair

Katherine is dedicated to coordinating Catalyst Fund and leading it’s volunteers. Together with wife, Katharine Kunst, she has had a home in Sonoma for nearly twenty years and has called it home for seven. 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.

Katherine Fulton has been a leading strategic advisor to foundations, high-net-worth donors, major nonprofits and rising social entrepreneurs for the past 25 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 more than a dozen industries as they sought to adapt more skillfully to rapid change. In whatever leadership role she finds herself, she aspires to work with other leaders who have the courage to face uncertainty, see new realities and build a better future for all.

Katherine has 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 on the board of The Long Now Foundation, based in San Francisco.