Pitch Night is the brainchild of COORDINARE- South Eastern NSW PHN.

Beyond Empathy, Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation and Scarf Incorporated will make their case for one-off funding during the Pitch Night event at the Innovation Campus in North Wollongong on June 26 from 5.30pm.

Once all three six-minute pitches are heard, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and then pledge COORDINARE funding to one or more initiatives of their choice.

The pledged totals will be tallied at the end of the night.

"Our aim is to include the broader community in the decision-making process......a democratic idea where stakeholders and the community are engaged to directly decide how and where to allocate funding," a spokeswoman said.

Beyond Empathy will pitch their Foot on the Ladder (FoTL) idea, an art-meets-sport community project creating accessible health/nutrition information for people living in disadvantaged areas in the southern suburbs of Wollongong and Shellharbour.

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Coomaditchie will talk about how their Deadly Women and Deadly Kids program offers a unique and much needed approach to meeting the needs of communities which traditionally don't access facilities, or mainstream health services.

SCARF will pitch their Lunchbox for health and learning initiative which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of refugee families by providing access to nutritional information, and increasing capacity for healthy, budget friending cooking and food preparation.