Areas of Support

Community Understanding

Building understanding of how capital shapes community and economic outcomes, identifying opportunities and developing strategies for action.

This includes understanding how assets, resources, investment and value function in communities, who benefits, where opportunities exist, and what approaches can help create stronger local outcomes.

Community Participation

Creating meaningful opportunities for people to contribute to, influence and participate in community priorities, projects and decision-making processes.

This includes community engagement, co-design, participatory planning, citizen-led initiatives, community leadership and other approaches that enable people to have a voice in shaping the future of their communities.

Community Generation

Creating new income streams, assets, resources and sources of value that support community priorities and strengthen local economies.

This includes enterprise development, asset activation, revenue generation, value creation, resource mobilisation and approaches that increase the resources available to support community goals.

Community Access

Improving access to funding, investment, land, infrastructure, services and other forms of capital needed to achieve community goals.

This includes strengthening pathways to finance, investment, assets, partnerships and opportunities that help communities move ideas into action and achieve greater impact.

Community Ownership

Supporting community and local ownership of assets, enterprises, housing, infrastructure and other forms of capital.

This includes community ownership models, cooperative structures, shared ownership arrangements, community acquisitions and other approaches that increase local control and long-term community benefit.

Community Governance

Designing and strengthening the structures, agreements, policies and decision-making arrangements that determine how authority is exercised and how decisions are made.

This includes governance structures such as boards and committees, as well as ownership arrangements, stewardship models, agreements, policies, benefit-sharing mechanisms, cultural authority and other approaches that embed community voice, influence and accountability over time.

Community Investing

Enabling communities to participate in investment and influence how capital is allocated towards projects, enterprises and outcomes that matter locally.

This includes community investment models, local investment pathways, investment readiness, impact investment, pooled investment approaches and mechanisms that connect capital with community priorities.

Community Enterprise

Creating and growing enterprises that generate economic activity, employment, income and community benefit.

This includes social enterprises, cooperatives, community-owned businesses and other enterprise models that create local opportunity while delivering social, economic or environmental value.

Community Stewardship

Caring for, managing and protecting community assets, resources and places so they continue to provide value over the long term.

This includes asset management, custodianship, resilience, sustainability, maintenance and stewardship approaches that support the long-term health and prosperity of communities, economies and ecosystems.

Community Benefit

Ensuring the value created through development, investment and economic activity is shared in ways that strengthen communities and improve long-term outcomes.

This includes benefit-sharing arrangements, community benefit funds, local participation mechanisms, value-retention strategies and approaches that ensure more people benefit from economic activity and investment.