Finding Funding: Top 5 Tips for Grantseekers
Advice for social ventures to help them navigate the veritable smorgasbord of grant application processes and make the activity less stressful and resource-intensive.
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Kickstarting Your Social Enterprise Dreams
The key to kick-starting your social enterprise dream is to turn inspiration into motivation and motivation into action. Many social entrepreneurs started their ventures as passion projects, but over time have reaped the rewards of running their own business. Finding funding is one of the biggest challenges faced by social entrepreneurs. You can have what you think is the best idea in the world but without the moolah to make it happen, it’ll be close to impossible to even get off the ground. But it’s not all doom and gloom – here are some awesome social enterprises that have harnessed the power of crowd to kick-start their social enterprise dreams.
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Designing for Social Impact
Addressing the world’s most complex challenges by designing specifically for social impact is a largely untapped market with a continuously increasing demand. However, designing for social impact isn’t simply about creating pretty objects for a good cause or selling rad merchandise and giving a percentage of the proceeds to charity. In its ideal form, designing for social impact is envisioning the impact you want to have for a community or individual, bringing stakeholders into the process, working toward sustainable solutions, measuring the difference you’re making, and sharing your results so that positive impact can spread across the world.
Making Customer Research Pay-off for Your Social Enterprise
Hearing input directly from your customers can be daunting for a social entrepreneur. You’ve likely put everything on the line for an idea that you believe in and while you know that seeking input from customers can be valuable, it can be a confronting exercise! Many entrepreneurs avoid research because of this, but those who do know that the payoff is big.
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The Four Cs of Effective Social Entrepreneurship
There are a growing number of investors looking for a both social impact and financial return on the organisations they back. But how do you get their attention?! Here are 3 tips for making sure you’re on the right track…
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Changemaker Corner: What Writing A Book Taught Me About Business
Nicole Gibson is an Australian multi-award winning social entrepreneur, Mental Health Commissioner, Speaker, Facilitator Unifier and Transformation Master. In this post she shares her experiences and what she learnt writing a book – that the more we become aligned to what it is we truly believe in, the greater and more precise the impact is we can make in the world.
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3 Ways to Get the Attention of Impact Investors
There are a growing number of investors looking for a both social impact and financial return on the organisations they back. But how do you get their attention?! Here are 3 tips for making sure you’re on the right track…
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Top Stories: Australian Social Entrepreneurs of 2018
Just like we did last year, here’s our attempt to wrap up 2018 with some of the year’s most worthy headlines. Skim them again or read for the first time for some social change inspiration. A big thank you to all those brave individuals who are committed to working on innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems.
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3 Things a Young Person in the Social Impact Space Needs to Know
The social impact space is booming with new possibilities for millennial-aged changemakers. From voluntourism to starting a for-purpose side-hustle, young people have more drive and passion than ever. Get started on your journey to make a positive change with these top tips.
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The Best Articles on Social Impact & Entrepreneurship (November 2018)
Social impact, entrepreneurship, and innovation — if it’s interesting news, you’ll find it here. These stories may not be the ones atop your news feed, but chances are they’re the ones you’ll actually want to read. Whether it’s opinions on creating positive social and environmental impact – or simply the valuable lessons learned along the way, here’s a roundup of the past month’s most interesting articles.
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Want to Be a Social Pioneer? Here Are Three Boundaries to Transcend
Keen to explore and conquer new areas of opportunity for yourself and society? Working to develop professionals who create social impact around the world, the Amani Institute focuses on three frontiers every social pioneer should cross.
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Leadership in a Changing Climate
Tackling climate change complexity challenges us to go beyond usual ways of working and leading.
Tech for Good: Education Organisations to Watch
Teaching children, youth, adults and employees everything from maths to appropriate occupational health and safety standards can be tiresome. Tracking progress, writing reports and developing personalised curriculums even more so. Here are some awesome Australian-based educational technology (also known as EdTech or EduTech) startups that are devoted to the development and application of products and services intended to promote education and make things easier for both teachers and students.
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Taking Social Enterprise Mainstream
Social enterprise is a people’s movement and, if it’s going to command a place in mainstream awareness, the message must be commanding.
Oh Myer God! $120,000 to Make Your Big Idea for Social Change a Reality
Imagine being given 12 months and $120,000 to pursue your big idea for social change? The Myer Innovation Fellowship can take your idea (and your career) to new heights and make your dreams a reality. Here Fellowship alumni share their tips on how to make your application stand out.
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5 Reasons Why Social Procurement Could Be a Game Changer for Social Enterprise
Here are five reasons why the time has never been better for Australian social enterprises to get a slice of the $600 billion social procurement pie.
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If Necessity Is the Mother of Invention… then Profit Is Most Certainly the Father
Could leveraging the profit motive and benefits of a capitalist system be the most efficient and efficacious means by which to achieve the good we want to see in the world?
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Why Entering Awards is Good for Business
Award ceremonies are calendar fixtures in every industry, including social entrepreneurship and sustainability, and those that don’t put themselves forward stand to miss out. As the saying goes, “you’ve got to be in it to win it”.
5 Ways a Fulbright Scholarship Can Transform Your Social Impact Career
Calling all Australian changemakers! Ever dreamed of studying in the US? The Australian-American Fulbright Commission has launched the new Fulbright Future Scholarships – its most generous scholarship program ever. Here are 5 ways a Fulbright Scholarship can transform your social impact career.
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Top Tips to Take Your Pitch from Mediocre to Memorable
A convincing pitch is a powerful tool to unlock opportunities, form key relationships with investors or volunteers, attract funding, and inspire new audiences. And, for charities and social enterprises in particular, a single pitch could really be “make or break”. So here we’ve distilled the five fundamentals to perfecting your pitch, because no matter what sector you’re working in, your future could depend on the quality of your spiel.
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Demystifying Collective Giving: How Your Social Enterprise Can Leverage the Movement
New giving concepts and donations platforms seem to be popping up left, right and centre. But let’s take a look at collective giving – you might be wondering what it is and how is it changing the way Australians are interacting with charities. Is it just another buzzword? A passing trend? Or is it here to stay?
5 Traps Savvy Social Entrepreneurs Avoid
Sometimes it’s easier to know what not to do when running a social enterprise, than what to do and how to best move forward. Here’s how to steer clear of the 5 biggest traps when building a sustainable and impactful social enterprise.