Starting out can feel uncertain, but you don’t have to go it alone. Beth Chapman from All Good Ventures shares inspiring examples of what’s possible with the right guidance – including the perfect opportunity to receive support to turn your idea into a business with real impact.
Discover the art of crafting a winning pitch with insights on storytelling, authenticity, and balancing purpose with profit. This post for start-ups emphasises the value of networking and refining ideas through feedback, ensuring your presentation resonates and leaves a lasting impression.
Grant writing often feels like navigating a labyrinth of challenges, struggling to secure that elusive grant or wondering if you’ll ever get it right. But fear not! Lucy Brotherton’s “Ten Things I Hate About Grants” guides you through these obstacles so that you can get funded.
Australia’s social enterprise sector has received a monumental boost with the Albanese Labor Government’s $11.6 million Social Enterprise Development Initiative. This initiative promises to empower social enterprises with grants, educational resources, and more, marking a significant leap towards sustainable community impact and inclusive growth.
Are you passionate about creating positive change in Australia but struggling to secure the resources needed for your game-changing solution? The Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowship, offered by The Myer Foundation & Sidney Myer Fund, is the answer. This prestigious program provides exceptional leaders with a full year dedicated to their social change idea and a generous grant of $180,000. Open to individuals from various sectors, this fellowship offers a unique opportunity to turn dreams into reality. Learn valuable tips from previous fellowship alumni who have successfully stood out in the highly competitive application process.
Here are the best social enterprise opportunities happening right now. If you’re passionate about creating positive social and environmental impact, these scholarships, funding rounds, capacity-building programs, podcast series and exposure opportunities will be right up your alley and a perfect way to build your skills, knowledge, credibility and confidence.
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.
Over the past ten years, the Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowship program has supported some of Australia’s brightest, self-directed leaders to forge breakthrough solutions to challenges facing Australia today — from poverty and disadvantage to sustainability and the environment. Unlike many opportunities for social change, the Fellowship program provides support to individuals rather than organisations, with Fellows each receiving $150,000 for their 12-month commitment to the program.
Hoping to make a positive social or environmental impact? Want to make it on a meaningful scale? If you’re a social innovator and you answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions, securing capital should be a top priority. While there’s no single “best” approach to navigating social enterprise funding, it’s helpful to know some of the different types of investors you might end up receiving funding from.
While every business idea and angel investor vary in different contexts, there are foundational elements that remain the same. At the core, these are what investors are looking for, and they are, therefore, what you should be mastering and incorporating into your social enterprise and pitches to win them over. Here’s some of the most effective ways to persuade an angel investors for buying into your social enterprise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fundraising is only going to get more competitive with declining government funding and increasingly demanding funders with expectations around personal involvement and impact measurement. So how do you stand out?
Whether you’re an established organisation or just starting out, you can’t avoid the fact that you need finance to kick things off or keep them growing. You won’t always find a financial solution that is straightforward or simple. It’s likely you’ll need to work with multiple stakeholders on a “blended” finance structure. Read on for Sefa’s 4 Ps (Partnerships, Passion, Pathway & Persistence), on starting a social enterprise or investing in entrepreneurial growth.
Advice for social ventures to help them navigate the veritable smorgasbord of grant application processes and make the activity less stressful and resource-intensive.
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…
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.
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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