At Catalyst this year, we introduced you to the Trade As One organization, a group that is making a significant mark on the world through fairly traded goods. Fair trade isn't just for coffee anymore - Trade As One makes available the bracelets, journals, soccer balls, candles, baskets, chocolate, and tons of other goods that are created by artisans in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.

Chances are, you're already planning to buy one of these kinds of items for someone on your Christmas list. Get it at TradeAsOne.org to simplify your shopping while strengthening communities and providing business and environmental sustainability for these talented artisans.

Ok, Catalyst loves you and wants you to collaborate with each other - to know each other and work together as a body.

Soooooo ... here's the deal.

Go take someone to lunch at Chick-Fil-A, someone you don't really know that well, someone you can learn from, or work with, or maybe you can help.

We will mail you a $5 Chick-Fil-A gift card (theoretically, this covers the cost of lunch for your "date" but not you).

Your discussion over lunch must not be a regular boring conversation. You have to find-out about each others: gifts, interests, passions, and potential ways you can help each other or work together as the body.

This is only available to the first 10 people who email us a picture of you and your new friend eating lunch at Chick-fil-a (or wherever) holding a sign that says "Catalyst" on it (this is so you don't just email me an old picture of you eating lunch with someone).

And email your address too.

jesse DOT phillips AT Catalyst space dot com