WHY connection matters
When community organisations work in isolation, their impact is limited. By connecting organisations, facilitating knowledge sharing and building collaborative networks, we unlock collective strength that creates lasting change across Melbourne’s West.
HOW we work
Local Impact brings community organisations together through strategic events, communications, and networks that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and resources.
WHAT we do
We link organisations, people and resources to extend and strengthen existing work across the community. Our research-informed, collaborative approach includes:
- Researching community needs and analysing outcomes
- Identifying and partnering with key organisations
- Convening leaders through facilitation, co-design, and strategic events
- Deliver strategic planning, governance, and social enterprise solutions alongside resources for funding, expertise, and IT
- Creating systems for data collection and impact measurement
- Help create place-based community hubs as centres for collaboration
Creating spaces for collaboration and collective impact
Strong communities are built through meaningful connection. By bringing together the organisations that make a difference in our community, we can enable our leaders to learn and understand broad community needs and challenges, while collaboratively developing solutions.
Communities hold the solutions to their own challenges. Through meaningful connection and facilitation, we help bring people together to solve problems collaboratively.
Our approach is intentionally place-based and partnership-driven. By collaborating with local partners and focusing on community priorities, we address real needs and create lasting, positive change. This approach helps build a stronger, more resilient community for all of us.
We create spaces for community leaders, organisations and businesses to come together. Through events, gatherings and networking opportunities, we build the relationships that strengthen our community and spark collaboration, including Community Pitch Nights,
TO-LEAP celebrations, and last year’s inaugural Gather for Good. These events do more than facilitate networking—they spark meaningful conversations, enable idea-sharing and create pathways for collaborative action.
When organisations work together rather than in isolation, their collective impact multiplies—creating a stronger, more resilient Western Melbourne for everyone.
