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Pro bono support helps social enterprises shift gears in response to COVID-19

Contributor, Tuesday, 12th May 2020 -  A new collaboration between Westpac Foundation, Social Impact Hub and Social Traders is providing valuable pro bono support to social enterprises, with over 50 enterprises already applying for support.

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Reimagining your social enterprise business model post COVID-19: The 16 social enterprise model types

Tara Anderson, Sunday, 10th May 2020 -  Tara Anderson explains the different social enterprise model types to spark ideas about how your business model might shift in response to COVID-19, in the second in a three-part series.

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What’s the footprint on your parcel?

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 6th May 2020 -  Each year, 841 million online deliveries arrive on Australian doorsteps, with most of us not stopping to think about what kind of impact that has on the planet. Sendle, Australia’s first carbon-neutral delivery service, is trying to change this, wr
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Connecting Aussies with for-purpose businesses during lockdown

Luke Michael, Sunday, 3rd May 2020 -  Lockdown Local hopes to help people source their pandemic supplies from sustainable businesses
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Corporates offer a helping hand to struggling social enterprises

Maggie Coggan, Friday, 1st May 2020 -  Companies including Westpac, MinterEllison, and Boston Consulting Group will provide pro bono business support

Analysis

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Reimagining your social enterprise business model post COVID-19: The why and what

Maggie Coggan, Friday, 1st May 2020 -  As we rebuild our economic system, we need social enterprises more than ever. But if we’re going to see more of them, we have to understand the business models that make them work, writes Tara Anderson, in the first in a three-part series.

Opinion

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Being a social entrepreneur during COVID-19

Margaret OBrien, Wednesday, 22nd April 2020 -  Young Change Agents co-founder and CEO Margaret O’Brien shares what the last few months have been like as the founder of a social enterprise, and why she is running a campaign to help bring social procurement into the spotlight in a simple way duri

Opinion

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Has this toilet-paper company solved the greatest supply-chain crisis of our age?

John Treadgold, Sunday, 19th April 2020 -  The success of Who Gives a Crap in recent weeks shows there is a big opportunity right now for a whole range of consumer staples products to adopt a subscription model, writes impact consultant and closet prepper John Treadgold.

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Social enterprise has a unique role in the COVID-19 challenge

David Brookes, Wednesday, 1st April 2020 -  It is vital that social enterprises rethink their priorities to ensure they can continue to deliver ongoing positive impact, writes David Brookes, managing director of Social Traders.
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Aussie social enterprises unite to shake up Victorian food system

Maggie Coggan, Tuesday, 31st March 2020 -  The enterprises will start by delivering thousands of meals to vulnerable groups
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