Our Mission and Purpose
Creative Catalyzers LLC is dedicated to fostering cultural arts and wellness while providing essential professional development for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and creatives. We aim to empower underrepresented voices and promote cultural enrichment through various initiatives and programs.
Our organization is committed to delivering professional development tailored to the needs of creatives, cultural nonprofits, and small businesses. We believe in the transformative power of education and support for underrepresented entrepreneurs, helping them thrive in their respective fields.
We actively organize cultural art events that celebrate diversity and creativity. Through these events, we engage the community, promote artistic expression, and provide a platform for local talents to showcase their work and connect with audiences.
In addition to events, we conduct educational and research programs that further our mission. These initiatives include public performances, panel discussions, and the publication of literature aimed at enhancing public understanding and appreciation of the arts.
What We Do
We are here to support culture, economic development, and entrepreneurship. We do this by empowering creatives and entrepreneurs with their professional practice by providing business advice for grant writing, fundraising, digital marketing, digital literacy, team building, and events production.
Our Values
We are here to promote more culture and innovation by offering supportive services to the community.
We would like to serve those who have limited resources, as well as women-led businesses, and underserved communities.
Founder
Dr. Angie Eng is the founder of Creative Catalyzers and a professional artist, writer, and educator with three decades of experience securing funding for creative projects. She holds a PhD in Intermedia Arts, Writing and Performance from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Over the course of her career, Dr. Eng has founded three nonprofit cultural organizations in Boulder, Colorado; Paris, France; and Ethiopia and developed arts and education programs serving people with disabilities and underserved youth in New York City.
Her own professional training began with The Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program and continued with Creative Capital’s 40-hour Professional Development boot camp. Drawing on thirty years of writing successful proposals and grants, she has refined a strategy that consistently maximizes funding outcomes. With her advanced writing skills she has been awarded over 50 grants, commissions and residencies for her projects and programs.
From 2022-2026, she taught professional practices for creatives at New York University. Since 2024, she has mentored and consulted nonprofit art organizations, artists, creatives and small businesses in Sacramento and the Bay Area, California as well as in New Mexico, Mexico, London and Canada.
Dr. Eng is also a certified Deep Listening practitioner (2023) and leads community- and empathy-building workshops throughout Mexico, California, and New Mexico. She also teaches digital literacy and grant writing at Santa Fe Community College.
