Case Studies

CoLab Strategy walked alongside VACCHO, the peak body for Aboriginal health and wellbeing in Victoria, to co-design a bold, enduring strategy grounded in timeless Guiding Outcomes. Built with staff, Members, leadership and the Board, ‘Keeping the Fires Strong’ strengthens self-determination and community control, and sharpens VACCHO’s impact for Aboriginal communities across the state.

On Yorta Yorta Country, Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative has been delivering health, housing and community services for decades, and is now one of the largest and longest-standing ACCOs in Victoria. CoLab worked with Rumbalara to develop a four-year Strategic Plan that holds that history while sharpening the focus of what comes next.

Bridge It supports young women and gender diverse people to stay housed after leaving care. To grow that model sustainably, they needed a clear funding pathway and a pitch that investors would back. We worked with the leadership team and Board to develop a focused growth strategy, a diversified funding model and an investor-ready pitch pack.

Queensland’s oldest peer-led, community-controlled LGBTQIA+ wellbeing and safety organisation now has a business model built to last. Diverse Voices came to CoLab needing financial sustainability and a strategic direction its people could rally behind. Working with the leadership team and Committee, we developed a sustainable business model, a clear strategy and a pitch pack ready to take to funders.

How do you diversify revenue without diluting the reason the enterprise exists? The Beautiful Bunch creates training and employment for young women from refugee backgrounds. We co-designed a three-year Strategic Plan with the team and mapped sustainable business model options to strengthen both income and impact.

A strategy is only as good as what happens after it’s signed off. Carers Queensland had a three-year strategy and needed it converted into something teams could act on. We worked with them to build a prioritised business plan, clarifying value propositions, success measures and a theory of change.

The Lioness Den exists to address housing insecurity for single mothers, connecting women to community, resources and pathways to economic participation. As a new organisation, it needed the strategic foundations to turn that vision into something fundable and deliverable. We worked with the founder to develop its first strategy.

You can’t be what you can’t see.  Iron Traks provides education and employment pathways for young women through sports and career mentoring. To grow that work sustainably, it needed a clear three-year direction and a firmer financial base. We ran a Board-led, co-designed planning process that clarified impact, sharpened focus and strengthened long-term sustainability.

CoLab Strategy partnered with Carers Queensland – a peak body supporting unpaid carers –to bring its three-year strategy to life. Across an intensive, two-day facilitation with the Carers Qld’s executive team, we were able to clarify the organisation’s fundamental remit in the context
oLab Strategy partnered with City of Boroondara to reimagine its Strategy and Performance function and service delivery model — ensuring it was strategically aligned, clear on its remit, and delivering maximum value to internal customers and Council.

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