We’re The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), a not-for-profit organisation helping Australia innovate for social impact and better lives.
We’ve spent 15 years partnering to develop social innovation practices that promote imagination, systemic awareness and put people at the margins at the centre of decision making.
Our work includes services and policy innovation, supporting communities to lead local change, developing new social innovation practices and stretching Australia’s sense of possibility.
Who we work with
We collaborate with our partners to support them to learn, do and create the conditions for social innovation.
Commonwealth & State Government
We partner to develop new services, policies and strategies, and to build capability.
Philanthropy
We partner to develop innovative strategy, systems change initiatives and to build sector capability.
Primary Healthcare Networks
We partner in every stage of the commissioning cycle to improve local healthcare outcomes.
Not for profits and service providers
We partner to build capability, develop strategy, services and peer-to-peer responses.
Researchers
We partner to help build new evidence of impact and what works in social innovation as well as apply co-design to research.
Communities
We partner to strengthen community capability for influencing and leading local change.
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Our clients and partners
We take a relational approach to working with government, philanthropy, PHNs, Not-for-profits, researchers and communities across a range of systems.
Our approach
Action in solidarity with First Nations peoples to centre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and cultures.
Building local capability and infrastructure so communities can lead their own change.
Designing services that connect people with shared life experience to create meaningful change.
Collaboratively designing services and policies by combining lived, research and practice expertise.
Working with Indigenous ways of knowing to address systemic challenges that affect us all.
Transforming complex systems through collaboration that centres diverse and lived perspectives.
Connecting changemakers through shared purpose, deep relationships and aligned systemic action.
Creating reliable systems for continuous, effective social purpose innovation.
Catalysing action for fairer futures by connecting diverse knowledge, people and possibilities.
Our experience
We work in a diverse range of areas and see the interconnections between them all.
How TACSI is working with PHNs to improve local health outcomes
Over the last 10 years we’ve acted as strategic partners to Primary Health Networks across Australia, bringing social innovation practices to every stage of the commissioning cycle.
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Family by Family
Family by Family helps families experiencing setbacks by engaging and training families who have been through tough times to help other families going through tough times themselves.
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Supporting South Australians to age well
In 2019, we prepared a report on supporting South Australians to age well. In 2020, we worked with diverse stakeholders to develop South Australia’s Plan for Ageing Well.
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Co-designing the transition of Accommodation Support Services
Over 4 million Australians live with disability, many in supported accommodation. We wanted to learn what makes life and change better for them.
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Dream initiatives
These are a collection of initiatives seeking investment that we believe will make a major contribution to Australia's capability to tackle complex social challenges.
The National Fund for Social Innovation Learning
We’re seeking funders committed to sector capability to create a $2.5m for social innovation learning - to unlock the capability Australia needs to navigate the 21st century.
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The Future Wellness Accelerator
We’re seeking funders to join the partnership and fund a foundational year of activity to grow in community action to stem Australia’s mental health crisis.
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The Peer-to-Peer Initiative
We’re seeking partners and funders who see the potential of peer-to-peer, so we can increase the take-up of a low-cost, high-impact service type that enables people to support one another in ways professionals often can’t.
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The National Futures Initiative
We’re seeking funders and partners to join our current focus areas (childhood, communities and human–machine collaboration) so that together, we can expand Australia’s sense of possibility and build pathways to a fairer future.
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