freelance dayton

Freelance Dayton came online in the spring of 2009 as the first of CFI’s revenue-generating initiatives. It’s designed to provide non-competitive and non-proprietary creative support to the community of Dayton, Ohio.


Freelance Dayton focuses its activity on providing services to two currently unsupported local constituencies:
    emerging and established communications arts practitioners whose residency in the Dayton area is threatened by the inability to connect with creative work
    small businesses and non-profits who cannot afford professional creative services for their companies and organizations

Mission and Vision

The mission of Freelance Dayton is to transparently serve creativity in five specific ways:

    to non-competitively support the geographic retention of Dayton’s diverse creative human resources by providing them with a cooperative professional platform through which they can realize their professional goals;
    to non-competitively provide affordable, reliable, responsive and on-demand creative services to small businesses and non-profits who could not otherwise afford them;
    to universally support all new and existing communication arts resources in the Dayton area through non-competitive and non-proprietary professional leadership and practice;
    to support the creative vitality and economic development of the entire greater
    Dayton area;
    and, to provide ongoing financial leadership and support to CFI

The vision of Freelance Dayton is the realization of a Dayton-based communication arts community, transparently “fused” and integrated within and without itself.

Service Delivery Commitment

All services are intentionally non-competitive, non-proprietary and as close to at-cost as possible. Freelance Dayton is also committed to maintaining the highest possible level of service to both its internal and external customers while continuously streamlining its service-delivery mechanisms. It is focused on providing a delivery mechanism that promotes a “win-win-win” for local creatives, local businesses/non-profits and the Dayton area as a whole.