“CFI are not just facilitators or academics. They have the continuity of the journey as a key player in the work.
CFI really brings value and gold from being present across the system. Being present for all the different conversations for all those different levels and environments has been the glue of the work.”
Executive Director, Gladstone Region Together
Since 2012, we have partnered with over 400 communities, organisations, and initiatives. This spans the local, regional and national level.
We engage at different levels—and the spaces in between—because we believe this is an essential part of creating deep and lasting change.
Our collaboration with you is tailored to your unique context and the opportunities for systemic change. At every level, we remain committed to centring equity and amplifying the voices of those excluded from dominant systems.
Community level
CFI works with people and organisations from community, government, civil society, philanthropy, and the private sector. We prepare and support you to collaborate and do systems change work.
Network level
CFI fosters relationships across the field, builds an authorising environment for new ways of working, and spotlights both successful approaches and challenges, particularly in terms of amplifying the voices often overlooked in change processes.
Ecosystem level
CFI is part of building the movement for collaborative systems change by influencing national policy and narrative shifts in Australia. Across the community, network and ecosystem level, CFI is engaging in conversations, research and prototyping that push the field to innovate.
CFI cultivates strategic partnerships at home and internationally with global networks of field-building intermediaries. This includes Collective Change Lab, FSG, Tamarack Institute, Place Matters, Inspiring Communities.
We provide expertise to help you collaborate - in ways that transform the systems you are part of.
Today’s challenges requires leadership by people who can work systemically and in complexity. This includes being able to harness our collective power and agency.
We work with you to help build collective leadership. This may be within your organisation, sector or beyond.
With our partners, we design and demonstrate new governance models and practice. Our focus is enabling multi-stakeholder collaboration for systems change.
We specialise in centring principles of equity and shared decision-making in governance. We can work with you on local, regional and/or national governance.
Systems learning involves listening and hearing from the whole system and considering what this means for the work.
We work with you to embed systems learning and knowledge sharing. We provide support for strategy and narrative building.
Our approach focuses on redistributing power and accountability to people most impacted by the system(s).
We work with you to develop innovations that increase community control over resources and capital.
We do this so communities can realise their aspirations and sustain community-led change.
Our focus is how governance and practices can lead to community control of resources that is more equitable.
“CFI is not transactional. It is a two-way learning, partnership approach. They become experts in the field because they learn from others, but they don’t just finish the job and disappear.
There is a clear ongoing commitment to the broader social impact across the field. They care about the outcome.”
Chief Executive, Far West Community Partnerships
