Think & DO Tank Foundation Limited

Think+DO Tank Foundation collaborates with low socioeconomic and marginalised communities in NSW, focusing on culturally and linguistically diverse women and children. Together, we develop a shared way of doing things, designing projects and enterprises for demonstrable and lasting impact. Our evidencebased, replicable approaches improve social cohesion; reduce isolation; strengthen community capacity; and foster equity. By using the arts, imagination and creativity and social enterprise to approach communities we shift the realms of possibility while we simultaneously address the pragmatic challenges of disadvantage that hinder change. Art asks us to examine our humanity, to amplify the threads that connect us and diminish those that divide us through geography, language and politics. Art starts conversations, holds and celebrates diverse points of view and asks each of us to imagine, and to create a world that does not yet exist. How can we create change if we don't have the imagination to design a different world for ourselves? The Think+DO Tank Foundation amplifies the stories of people and their places, in their own languages and in English. We explore how artsbased approaches can shift systems that reinforce poverty. By creating space for artistic selfexpression in the languages spoken in the communities around us each of us can take an equal place in making new Australian stories and imagining new possibilities, together.