I invite everyone to make a commitment to fair trade during Fair Trade Fortnight from the 5th to the 20th of May. The choices you make on how to spend your money can have a significant impact on people in developing countries, farmers and producers.
With all public bodies now obliged to take social value into account when buying services, it is important to differentiate it from social impact, says Dom Potter.
For all of the successes of social impact debates in the UK, we have struggled to get beyond the inward-facing debates about the different approaches, tools, frameworks and mechanisms to capture and demonstrate impact.
Beginning on 1st May, I will be stepping into the shoes of our target employee to experience, first hand, the struggle of living off the meagre $20 per day you are left with as an unemployed job seeker in this country.
Print is playing a significant role in the rebuilding of an area devastated by the Victorian bushfires of February 2009
It is more than two years since the devastating fires ripped through the Victorian town of Kinglake, claiming 38 members of this tight-knit community on Saturday February 7, 2009.
"Campfire is a metaphor for an interesting place where people gather", film maker and Campfire managing director Richard Leigh said.
"We bring together teachers and film makers to look at the different perspectives of the stuff we need to talk about". Officially, Campfire provides access to an online library of high quality short films to introduce difficult topics and spark discussion about meaningful issues – aboriginal perspectives, the media, religion and society.
Social enterprise seems to be the buzz word of the moment but there are many examples of organisations which have been working at the intersection of commercial revenue and social impact for a long time without calling themselves social enterprises. So why bother using this buzz word at all? Why not just get on with doing good stuff in a business-like manner?
Melbourne located Black Olive Catering – the thought bank of aboriginal chef Mark Olive – delivers real change to remote aboriginal communities across Australia. As a social business, Black Olive Catering enables the Outback Cafe to fund training, education, and community health, through the trading of bush food in a community operated social enterprise.
Understaing Social Enterprise - Book your place now for information sessions and one-to-one advice surgeries.
A series of workshops will be taking place across Western Australia to help you with your application for the Social Enterprise Fund (SEF) Grants Program, funded by the Government of Western Australia. This is an exciting new opportunity for investment for not-for-profit community organisations thinking about developing a social enterprise or for those already running a successful social enterprise that are looking to grow its operations.
On 27th March I had the privilege to attend and speak at The Social Enterprise Exchange in Glasgow, Scotland. This was billed as the largest social enterprise event anywhere in the world. A bold statement by the organisers but with over 1,250 delegates from nearly 30 countries, around 150 exhibitors and a keynote speech by the First Minister of Scotland this was definitely a social enterprise event at scale.
SVA is pleased to announce that it is part of UnitingCare Burnside’s (UCB) winning consortium under the NSW Government’s Social Benefit Bond (“SBB”) pilot program. SVA will work alongside UCB to structure and fund the bond, which will be developed over the coming six months in consultation with the Government working committee. The UCB service delivery model is based around their highly regarded Newpin program, which has a track record both here and in the UK.
It’s fuzzy, it’s trendy, and it’s not even clear how new the whole concept really is. The passions triggered by the new breed of enterprises we now call social may even appear to some almost cultish.
The WA Government has just launched a $10 million Social Enterprise Fund targeted at the not-for-profit sector in Western Australia. The aim of this fund is to increase the impact and effectiveness of social enterprises in the region.
Dr Alex Nicholls, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford discusses the broad definition of social enterprise and how it is changing. He also discusses how social entrepreneurs measure the impact of what they do, blended value accounting, funding and financial sustainability for social enterprise, and the development of social finance markets around the world.
Professor Peter Shergold is the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at UNSW and Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney. He was the founding CEO of CSI from 2008 - 2011. This article is from the CSI blog.
I invite everyone to make a commitment to fair trade during Fair Trade Fortnight from the 5th to the 20th of May. The choices you make on how to spend your money can have a significant impact on people in developing countries, farmers and producers.
With all public bodies now obliged to take social value into account when buying services, it is important to differentiate it from social impact, says Dom Potter.
For all of the successes of social impact debates in the UK, we have struggled to get beyond the inward-facing debates about the different approaches, tools, frameworks and mechanisms to capture and demonstrate impact.
