Join CFN’s Expert Network
Bring Your Expertise
to the Block
CFN serves all 78 neighborhoods in Louisville—and we do it with a model built to meet real needs without building a big bureaucracy. We keep a lean core team and bring in experienced consultants for specific projects—people with the right skills, lived context, and relationships for the neighborhood and issue at hand. That lets us match staffing to the work, and the work to the funding—so projects stay high-quality, on-scope, and sustainable.
What stays consistent is CFN’s method: our community transformation model—Engagement → Education → Planning → Investment—and our role as the connector between residents, institutions, and capital. What flexes is the specialist talent we deploy to deliver the work well.
What you can hire CFN to do:
- Community engagement & facilitation (resident-driven, trust-building, measurable)
- Leadership education & training (Neighborhood Institute and custom programs)
- Neighborhood & corridor planning (vision to implementable plan)
- Economic development & pre-development support (project scoping, partners, feasibility, capital readiness)
- Community investment strategy (community ownership pathways, deal support, funder alignment)
- Policy and civic innovation (including CivicPulse—turning public information into neighborhood-ready tools)
What clients can expect:
A clear process. A community-led approach. A team built for your project—CFN plus the right experts—delivering outcomes you can implement, fund, and measure.
Calling Experienced Consultants
If you’re a planner, facilitator, designer, developer, strategist, community organizer, analyst, writer, or project manager—and you want to do work that’s rooted in neighborhoods and built with residents—we want to know you.
Join CFN’s consultant network so we can match you to upcoming projects across Louisville.
Complete our short interest form and we’ll reach out when your expertise fits the work and the neighborhood.
