Case Study: First Nations Foundation launches world’s first digital Indigenous financial literacy program with Totara

First Nations Foundation Successfully Launched the World’s First Digital Financial Literacy Training Program

First Nations Foundation is a national Indigenous non‑profit dedicated to improving financial wellbeing for First Nations Australians. Faced with the need to scale a decade‑validated in‑person training program (which had delivered strong outcomes: e.g., major gains in confidence and money management) to address alarming levels of financial stress and low savings, the organisation had to overcome limits of being a small charity: no online delivery experience, funding constraints, the need to align data collection with its impact framework, and to make a single product work for diverse sponsors, employers and learners.

FNF partnered with Androgogic and deployed Totara Learn to build My Money Dream, a culturally relevant, mobile‑friendly digital program with sponsor, employer and learner dashboards, registration-key workflows, automated reporting and integrated data capture. The platform enabled streamlined administration, scalable course delivery and measurable outcomes; it launched as the world’s first digital financial‑literacy program for First Nations people, attracted national and international interest, and provides a foundation to grow offerings and drive behaviour change (each graduate typically reaches another 5.6 people).

First Nations Foundation

Amanda Young

Chief Executive Officer