Social enterprise resources

At the time that PCC’s Social Enterprise program commenced in January 2007 there was no central Australian-based portal for accessing social enterprise related information. This was identified as a significant gap in the local infrastructure and this section of the PCC webpages were created to begin to address this issue. The resulting collection of examples, documents, blog sites and the like was the first of its kind in Australia.

Since then, in response to many stimuli, the Australian social enterprise landscape has exploded with activity. A significant step forward was the 2008 establishment of Social Traders in Melbourne – an initiative jointly funded by the Victorian State Government and a private philanthropic foundation. In September 2009 Social Traders launched its website and much of the content that previously appeared on these pages, along with much more, now appears there.

The content of the PCC social enterprise resource pages have been significantly scaled back as a result and it is recommended that interested parties visit the Social Traders website at www.socialtraders.com.au.

Other current and recent activity includes:

Documenting Australian social enterprise stories – PCC is collaborating with The Centre for Social Impact on this project. Stories of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship activity are largely undocumented in Australia. Over the past 10-15 years a number of publications on these topics overseas have provided a catalyst for the developing sphere of activity. This project will assist with addressing the gap in local material about social enterprise activity. The outcome will be a publication that will present key learning themes coming out of the journeys of those involved in the field.

The Finding Australia’s Social Enterprise Sector (FASES) project

Toward a Social Enterprise Strategy for Greater Sydney -  Toward a Social Enterprise Strategy for Greater Sydney ( 641.1 kb)

Churchill Fellowship report - How the public sector can support social enterprise development -  social enterprise Churchill Fellowship report.pdf ( 189.9 kb)

Examples of Australian social enterprises

• Abbotsford Convent - http://www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/
• ASRC Catering - http://www.catering.asrc.org.au/
• Biddy Bags - http://www.biddybags.com.au/
• Bleeding Heart - http://www.bleedingheart.com.au/
• Breakout and Justice Action - http://www.breakout.net.au/ and http://www.justiceaction.org.au/
• CERES - http://www.ceres.org.au/
• Charcoal Lane - http://www.charcoallane.com.au/
• Cleanable - http://www.cleanable.com.au/
• cool nrg - http://www.coolnrg.com/
• Creative Paper Tasmania - http://www.creativepapertas.com.au/
• Euraba Paper - www.eurabapaper.com.au
• Feral Arts - http://feralarts.com.au/
• Food Connect - http://www.foodconnect.com.au
• Future Employment Opportunities - www.feo.net.au
• Gideon’s Shoes - http://www.gideon.com.au/
• Goolarri Media Enterprises - http://www.gme.com.au/
• Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) - http://ice.org.au/
• Lentil As Anything - http://www.lentilasanything.com/
• Mad Cap Café -http://www.ermha.org/madcap.html
• Mars Hill Café - www.marshillcafe.com.au
• Message Stick - http://www.messagestick.com.au/
• MultiLink Interpreter Service - http://www.multilink.org.au/content.php/interpret
• Murri’s Delight - http://www.qite.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=29
• Nundah Co-op - http://www.ncec.com.au
• Outlook Environmental - http://outlookenviro.org.au/
• Penny Farthings - http://www.pushbikeparking.com/
• Print Side Up - http://www.printsideup.com.au/
• Reverse Garbage - http://www.reversegarbage.com.au/
• Ross House - http://www.rosshouse.org.au/
• Santos Natural Food Stores - http://santostrading.com.au/
• Sorghum Sisters - http://www.ames.net.au/index.php?sectionID=6542&pageID=6762
• Speak Out - www.speakout.com.au
• STREAT - http://streat.com.au/
• Suited for Work - http://www.sfw.org.au/
• Sweet Freedom - http://www.sweetfreedom.org
• The Big Issue Australia - http://www.bigissue.org.au/
• The Smith Family Commercial - http://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/
• Tree House Recycling - http://www.treehouserecycling.org.au/home.aspx
• Tribal Warrior Association - http://www.tribalwarrior.org/
• Vibewire - http://vibewire.org
• Workventures – ITEC Repair Centre - http://www.sirc.com.au/
• Yackandandah Community Development Company - http://www.yackandandah.com/ycdco/\
• Youthinc - http://www.youthinc.org.au/youthinc/

Other Australian social enterprise resources

• Australian Employee Ownership Association - www.aeoa.org.au
• Australian Institute for Social Entrepreneurship - http://www.aise.net.au/
• Community Builders – Enterprise - http://communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/building_stronger/enterprise/
• Community Cooperative Connections (CCC) e-news - http://www.business.uts.edu.au/cacom/news/cccenews.html
• Community Enterprise Resource Kit – Brotherhood of St Laurence - http://www.communityenterprise.org.au/resources.html
• Forester’s Community Finance - http://www.forestersana.com.au
• Social Firms Australia - http://www.socialfirms.org.au/
• The Mercury Centre - www.mercury.org.au
• NSW Office of Fair Trading – Cooperatives - http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/business/cooperatives.html
• QUT’s Social Enterprise wiki - https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/se/Home
• School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia - http://www.sse.org.au
• Social Enterprise Hubs - http://www.socialenterprisehubs.org
• Social Traders - www.socialtraders.com.au
• UnitingCare Wesley’s Social Enterprise Handbook - http://www.ucwesleyadelaide.org.au/publications/resources.htm

International social enterprise resources

• Ashoka - http://www.ashoka.org/
• Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CED) - http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/pages/home.asp
• Canadian Cooperative Association - http://www.coopscanada.coop/
• Care Enterprise Partners - http://care.ca/CEP/services/assistance_e.shtm
• Citizen Base - http://www.citizenbase.org/
• Changemakers - http://www.changemakers.net/journal/peace/
• Community Wealth Ventures Inc - http://www.communitywealth.com/
• Craig Dearden Phillips - http://www.craigdeardenphillips.com
• Employee Ownership Association (UK) - http://www.employeeownership.co.uk/
• Enterprising Nonprofits - http://www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/
• FourthSector.net - http://fourthsector.net/
• Government Innovators Network -http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/topic.html?c=14
• Idea Tree (UK) - http://www.ideatree.org.uk/
• Innovation Exchange - http://innovation-exchange.org/
• Institute for Social Entrepreneurs - http://www.socialent.org/
• International Cooperative Alliance -http://www.ica.coop/
• Non-profit Enterprise and Self-sustainability team (NESsT) - http://www.nesst.org/
• Office of Social Entrepreneurship - http://www.crt.state.la.us/ltgovernor/socialentrepreneurship/
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Enterprising Ideas -http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/
• Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE) - http://www.rise-sw.co.uk/
• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - http://www.schwabfound.org/
• School for Social Entrepreneurs - http://www.sse.org.uk/
• Skoll Foundation - http://www.skollfoundation.org/
• Social Capital Gateway - http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/
• Social Capital Partners - http://www.socialcapitalpartners.ca/index.asp
• Social Edge Social Entrepreneurship - http://www.socialedge.org/resources/edge-wiki/SocialEntrepreneurship
• Social and Enterprise Development Innovations - http://www.sedi.org/html/splash/index.asp
• Social Enterprise Alliance - http://www.se-alliance.org/
• Social Enterprise London - http://www.sel.org.uk/
• Social Enterprise Magazine - http://www.socialenterprisemag.co.uk/homepage.asp
• The Social Enterprise People - http://www.thesocialenterprisepeople.co.uk/
• Social Enterprise Reporter - http://www.sereporter.com
• Social Entrepreneurs Ireland - http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/
• Social Innovation Conversations - http://www.siconversations.org/
• Stanford Social Innovation Review - http://www.ssireview.org
• University Network for Social Entrepreneurship - http://www.universitynetwork.org/
• UnLtd - http://www.unltd.org.uk/
• Virtue Ventures Social Enterprise Typology - http://virtueventures.com/setypology/
• Voluntary Gateway Canada Social Enterprise -http://voluntarygateway.ca/en/sustainability_and_finance/social