Stephen M. Pratt is the President of Impact Catalysts. Prior to launching Impact Catalysts in 2016, he was a Partner and Director of Advisory Services at Root Cause. Steve has more than two decades of experience in nonprofit management, having served as CEO of two direct service organizations, two capacity-building intermediaries, and a scholarship foundation. Steve has also had a role in the founding of six social impact ventures including Boston After School & Beyond and Bridgespan’s Bridgestar Initiative.

One of these start-ups, Eureka-Boston, was a learning community for nonprofit CEOs that developed into the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, representing over 600 community-based organizations in the Commonwealth. At Eureka, Steve coached 56 CEOs of nonprofits in youth development, housing and homelessness, health care, community development, arts, and environment. He has served as a resource for early stage social entrepreneurs and seasoned executives of multi-service agencies.

Steve has led a range of consulting engagements in the areas of education and youth, housing and homelessness, workforce development, civic engagement and advocacy, and health care improvement. As part of this work, Steve led the development of our performance measurement system tool and framework for financial sustainability planning. He has written extensively on nonprofit strategy and leadership, financial sustainability, and performance measurement.

Steve has an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in Government and English from Hamilton College. A cancer survivor, Steve has completed the 192-mile Pan-Mass Challenge bicycle ride 11 times, raising over $70,000 for cancer research and advocacy. Steve also serves as board chair of Food For Free, an innovator in promoting food security in eastern Massachusetts.