Communities decide. Partners fund. Communities own.
Most funding is designed in a capital city, delivered to a community and measured by the funder. Jaway works the other way around. Nothing begins until a community decides what it wants to build. From there, the work runs in five steps.
From decision to delivery.
Every project begins with a community deciding what it wants to build and how it should run.
First Nations researchers, working with partners at the University of Sydney, design and cost the project with community. Feasibility, infrastructure, economics.
Film, story, figures. Rigorous enough for a board. Human enough to move one.
Partners back the project through their Reconciliation Action Plans and funding mandates. Not a donation into a general pool. A named project, a named community, a named outcome.
The community owns and operates the finished asset. A facilitation fee, quoted in each agreement, funds the mapping of the next project. Every finished project makes the next one easier to fund.
The researchers who cost the projects sit on our board.
They put their names to the figures and answer for them. The evidence is published so communities, partners and anyone else can check it.
Every fortnight we run food relief in community, and cooking and nutrition classes alongside it.
Relief is the bridge, and we will keep it standing for as long as communities need it. It is also how we stay close to the people this work is for, fortnight after fortnight. Procurement for community benefit remains. Policy work moves to the centre, because food insecurity is a systems problem, and systems change through policy or not at all.
The model is ready. Your funding is what puts it to work.