Community sector
Alternative labels
Third-sector
Social sector
Community services sector
Report
Renting in Victoria – May 2026
Since 2021, Victoria has been driving an ambitious rental reform agenda. However, Victorian renters are facing a combination of pressures that threaten to undermine the impact of this reform work. This report provides insights from 250 community sector workers who are on the frontline of this crisis, supporting Victoria’s most marginalised renters.
Report
Community-led climate adaptation
Adapting to the impacts of climate change is a social and economic imperative. This report explores some models the community sector in Victoria already has in place for this vital capacity- and resilience-building work. Adaptation to climate change will not work unless it addresses the needs of the most imperilled groups.
Report
On our own terms: emerging insights report. Systems change through lived experience leadership
This report describes in-depth conversations with lived experience and community leaders across Australia, as part of a national project exploring lived experience leadership. The report discusses how lived experience leadership is practised and what it might take to better support and scaffold this work.
Report
Surviving in a cost-of-living crisis: Australia's fraying care infrastructures
This report examines how Australia's care infrastructures, encompassing welfare, housing, food and community support systems are fraying and increasingly failing to meet the basic needs of those on low- or no- income. The report documents the labour-intensive and precarious work required to piece together fragmented supports amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Guide
Reimagining evaluation: a guide to evaluating differently
A practical guide for anyone who wants to approach evaluation in an inclusive and meaningful way. The guide offers easy-to-use tools that can be applied straight away. It provides examples and reflections to help rethink what evaluation can be, and how it can strengthen projects, partnerships and relationships with communities.