Questions to Answer Before Seeking Impact Investment
If you’re thinking about impact investment, sit down with your core team and be honest with yourselves. Answers to these questions will help illuminate whether you are ready and, if not, what you need to work on in order to get there.
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Crowdfunding for Social Enterprises: 5 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Campaign
If crowdfunding is so great, why do the vast majority of crowdfunding campaigns fail? Here’s the top five mistakes and misunderstandings to avoid at all costs.
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Systems and Structures That Help Social Enterprises Succeed
Juanita Pope from Justice Connect has many vivid memories of the Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 in Ethiopia – the people, the dancing, the camaraderie, the incredible stories of entrepreneurs pushing against the odds to create impressive social impact. But the one thing that really struck a chord was the structural and systemic aspirations of many social enterprises speaking at SEWF.
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Top Stories: Australian Social Entrepreneurs of 2019
Australians are working on innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. Here’s a wrap up of the year’s most worthy headlines.
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Recover, Rebuild, Renew!
As we stepped over the threshold of a new decade, it’s true that what should have been a celebratory greeting of new beginnings was instead a time of collective sadness and loss – a feeling that persists even as we endeavour to anticipate where the destructive bushfires will impact next. But, although this event will […]
What Corporates Look for When Partnering With Social Innovators
Australian social innovators are working on innovative solutions to society’s most pressing problems. Check out Optus’ insights into how corporates can help further develop and scale social enterprises.
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A Business Canvas for Social Businesses
When the traditional lean canvas just won’t cut it.
The Future of Work is… Purpose
Impact comes in many different forms, but what’s often overlooked is the positive impact that flows from ensuring your staff are working with purpose.
How Small Organisations Can Use Data for Big Impact
The Xfactor Collective specialist member Kristi Mansfield shares how a small grassroots organisation is proving you don’t have to be a powerhouse to use data to achieve your goals.
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How to Get Your Social Enterprise Investment Ready
If you’re thinking about impact investment, sit down with your core team and be honest with yourselves. Answers to these questions will help illuminate whether you are ready and, if not, what you need to work on in order to get there.
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Telling the Story of Australia’s Thriving Social Enterprise Sector
Right now, in Australia and indeed globally, there’s a big, audacious story that needs to be told because of its potential to transform the world we live in: the story of the Aussie social enterprise movement.
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Study, Scale & Social Entrepreneurship
Any education program that wants to help support and up-skill social innovators, while nurturing the next generation’s social entrepreneurs, needs to hit these marks.
4 Ways Social Enterprises Build Trust Through Social Media
With social enterprise being a largely unregulated term in Australia, organisations in the cause space need to work even harder to be transparent and build loyalty and trust. Luckily, we can draw on the power of social media to find and nurture our tribe of trusting followers. Here are four posts you can schedule in that focus on building trust.
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7 Tips to Help to You Build Social Impact into Your Brand
Today it is no longer just enough for a brand to be “good”; it must also be “cool.” It must have great design and a great story, and it must be an object of desire.
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Female Changemakers: Creating Social Change with Tech
The percentage of women working in technology in Australia is only 28%! How can we change that? Women in Technology, Western Australia (WITWA) has a few ideas…
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Oh Myer God! $120,000 to Make Your Big Idea for Social Change a Reality
The Myer Innovation Fellowships support breakthrough solutions to Australia’s most pressing social and environmental challenges and bring new talent to the social sector. Fellows are offered funding and the unique opportunity to take twelve months away from their current role to pursue a big idea that has the potential to achieve positive social outcomes.
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Thinking of Applying for a Westpac Social Change Fellowship?
Mikhara Ramsing is a 2018 Westpac Social Change Fellow, a social entrepreneur and businesswoman, an activist for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) LGBTIQA+ inclusion, a QLD Young Australian of the Year nominee, a mentee and mentor. But just two years ago as she considered applying for the Westpac Social Change Fellowship, she shares how she was struck with feelings of self doubt as she wondered whether this was a program for people far more qualified than her.
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How to Triumph over Imposter Syndrome When Trying to Create Social Impact
Imposter system is all too common among social entrepreneurs and changemakers. But what exactly is it, why does it happen and, most importantly, how do you triumph over it?
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What Every Serious Social Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Impact Investment
Attracting impact investment requires not only your evidenced theory of change and impact measurement, but necessitates a robust, sustainable business model. One way to do this is to check your business plan and pitch deck against the 5 classic C’s of lending.
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Tips To Smash Your Next Grant or Scholarship Interview
Are you nervous for the interview? Good. That means you’re taking it seriously. However, nerves should never become a barrier to success. Here are three tips that you can apply to any interview situation if you’re looking to get ahead.
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Are You Dreaming of Becoming a Unicorn or a Zebra?
There are numerous ways of differentiating and staying ahead of your competition. One best practice would be to get the attention and recognition your purpose-driven initiative deserves.
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Embracing Gender Equality Through Social Entrepreneurship
Why is it that if a woman says she is going to change the world, the assumption is that she’s launching a not-for-profit organisation, a charity? While if a man says he is going to change the world, the assumption is that he’s launching a for-profit business? A powerful piece written by Cindy Reese Mitchell, CEO at The Mill House Ventures Ltd., on how the gender norms that hobble women’s full participation in business also applies to those who are passionate about social innovation.
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