Highlights REJUVENATE – Australia’s first community-led accelerator program Designed and facilitated by ACRE and made possible by Emergency Recovery Victoria, the inaugural REJUVENATE program supported eleven community-led initiatives from Victoria between September 2023 to May 2024. REJUVENATE provides a new way of connecting, supporting, and guiding rural people who want to build and sustain communityled initiatives that address a local problem or create an opportunity. The inaugural REJUVENATE cohort during the Accelerator Forum at the Old Beechworth Gaol. Strategic Doing capability to support community-led action Through 2023 and 2024, ACRE partnered with the Agile Strategy Lab (Alama, US) to bring world renowned training in Strategic Doing methodology to Australia. The training equipped the ACRE team and local leaders in a skillset to guide collaborative action planning to better support community initiatives or projects struggling to make traction. “The Strategic Doing workshop fast forwarded a lot of what we wanted to do with community, and the work towards creating a food network” Rebecca Crawley A community workshop uses Strategic Doing to imagine a Thriving Food Network. ACRE 12
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