The Business for Good Sector Development Program is for social enterprises, First Nations owned businesses, B Corps and small businesses (<20 employees) who are interested in intentionally embedding social and environmental impact into their businesses.

Our Business for Good workshop series will cover a range of small business fundamentals topics with an impact lens to help SA small businesses build key knowledge and capabilities to drive social and environmental impact through sustainable business development and growth.

Workshop 3 is on Governance and Legal Structures for Impact facilitated by Natasha Rees of NchangeR.

The Business for Good Sector Development Program is for social enterprises, First Nations owned businesses, B Corps and small businesses (<20 employees) who are interested in intentionally embedding social and environmental impact into their businesses.

Our Business for Good workshop series will cover a range of small business fundamentals topics with an impact lens to help SA small businesses build key knowledge and capabilities to drive social and environmental impact through sustainable business development and growth.

Workshop 2: Business Model Design for Impact is a two part workshop covering:

• Business Model Design for Impact

• Market Fit and Customer Experience

Join program partners Collab4Good and StartSomeGood, and the graduating teams from the Circular Impact Accelerator Program as they pitch their circular economy business ideas for the chance to win up to $10,000 in seed funding thanks to Green Industries SA.

Is impact calling you? What’s possible and what is your link in the impact chain? Join us for a series an immersive experiences that mirror the entrepreneur's journey for impact - for everyone from beginners to seasoned entrepreneurs who want to calibrate their models for impact. You'll come away with new insights, friendships & a deepened understanding of how you can participate in Australia’s growing social enterprise landscape.

Are you ready to be inspired by new social enterprise business ideas in the circular economy and to back these leading agents of change?

Join program partners Collab4Good and StartSomeGood, and the graduating teams from the Heaps Good Hustle Circular Economy Incubator Program as they pitch their circular economy business ideas.

Join us at the Adelaide Town Hall for a special in-person edition of our popular Lunch & Learn series where we will hear from local activists who are giving a voice to significant issues to drive change through a number of different levers including community enterprise, movements, public policy and local government. Come along to be inspired and to learn about how you can drive or contribute to change by acting locally. Tickets include a light morning tea - numbers are strictly limited so book now to secure your place!

Book via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/think-global-act-local-driving-change-through-local-activism

Our May Lunch & Learn topic is all about the power of procurement. We'll be hearing from panellists who make decisions about what to procure, from vendors about what they do in preparing a successful submission for procurement and exploring some ideas about procurement as a pathway to scale.

Joining our panel:

Sarai Tuuga, National Social Enterprises Manager at yourtown

Monique Ward, Head of Business Development, Innovation and Partnerships at Social Traders

Andrea Heading, General Manager Marketing Strategy at Maxima Group

This is a free online event but registrations are essential - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Collab4Good is partnering with (think) enough. to bring you our March Lunch & Learn!

Join (think) enough. Co-Founders Arianna Watson and Caitlin Stanway for a fun and interactive session to find out how you, as one individual, can create a ripple effect of social and environmental impact through engaging with for-purpose businesses in your daily activities, purchases and conversations!

This is a free online event but registrations are essential - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Join us for our first Lunch & Learn of 2022 as we go circular!

We will be discussing why the time is right for SA to invest in growing our circular economy, and what you can do to get involved. Come and join us in conversation with a panel of circular economy enthusiasts from across the impact ecosystem! Joining the panel are:

Sharon Ede - Green Industries SA

Laura Gransbury - Makerspace Adelaide

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Join us in the lead up to our revolutionary systems change event, Impact Chains, as we chat to activators who will be facilitating our learning on the day and sharing their journey of systems changemaking to help us all work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our October discussion is with Liz Sanders of the Food Embassy and Jacqui Hunter of HunterGatherer Designs as they prepare to take us on a journey through our ever-important food system! They’ll give some background and a sneak preview of what to expect for their activation at Impact Chains 2021!

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Join us in the lead up to our revolutionary systems change event, Impact Chains, as we chat to activators who will be facilitating our learning on the day and sharing their journey of systems changemaking to help us all work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our September lunch and learn welcomes the team from Youth Inc. who are behind the game changing initiative ‘ideas to unf*ck the world’! They’ll give some background and a sneak preview of what to expect for their activation at Impact Chains 2021!

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Our August lunch and learn topic is on the value of incubators and accelerator programs for impact enterprises, and we'll be chatting to panellists who have done them and run them to find out what difference these programs can make, when the best time is to do them, and what are the necessary ingredients for a success.

Our panellists are:

Tom Dawkins - Co-Founder + CEO, StartSomeGood

Rachel Kidwell - Founder, TCPinpoint

Amy Orange - CoFounder, Collab4Good

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Our July lunch and learn topic is on the role of the intermediaries the social enterprise ecosystem, and we'll be chatting to panellists about their purpose, role and what lessons they have for us as the South Australian impact ecosystem takes shape

Our panellists are:

Ingrid Burkett - Professor + Co-Director, Yunus Centre, Griffith University

Usman Iftikhar - Co-Founder and CEO, Catalysr

Paul Mayers - Director, Mayers Consulting & Board Member, South Australian Social Enterprise Council

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

In our June Lunch & Learn we will be discussing co-designing for social impact! We will be hearing from panellists who apply co-design principles and who will share with us some of the results of this approach and why it matters for impact.

Our panellists are:

Vita Maiorano - Director, Scaling Innovations at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

Tracey Newman - Co-Founder and Director, Impacto Consulting

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Collab4Good and Hen House Coop are pleased to bring you a lunch and learn session with Sarah Curtis-Fawley, who will share the findings from her MBA thesis research on 'Accelerating Opportunity - Towards a Gender Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem' that she recently conducted in South Australia.

South Australia has promised to accelerate “economic growth and prosperity” by making the state a “global leader in entrepreneurship” (FIXE 2019). According to data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, currently there is a large gap between female and male engagement in entrepreneurship in South Australia. To achieve the State’s ambitious growth goals, the ecosystem must foster more inclusion so that women are inspired and encouraged to start and scale businesses.

Sarah's research investigated how male and female founders navigate and experience the entrepreneurial ecosystem of South Australia in order to highlight potential areas of opportunity to support nascent female founders. An extensive literature review on gender and entrepreneurship led to the development of a conceptual model, which posits that men and women develop and claim an ‘entrepreneurial identity’ in disparate ways, which in turn compounds the disadvantages women face in terms of the accrual of social capital. A less robust entrepreneurial identity and lower social capital has the effect of limiting aspiring and nascent female founders’ access to critical resources, information, and supports, which makes their entrepreneurial “process” more challenging than that of men.

Sarah will share findings from her research as well as a range of recommendations to cultivate increased female participation in entrepreneurial activity, as well as discuss the implications and opportunities for social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as a necessary focus area for a gender-inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in South Australia.

This is an online only event and registrations are essential to receive the Zoom link - please register here.

In our April Lunch & Learn we will be discussing the role of government in creating change! We will hear from leaders who work within Federal and State Governments to create positive change for community, as well as a community engagement specialist with loads of experience in ensuring the community voice is heard in government policy decisions. We will discuss what role governments can, and should, play in creating change through policy and practice, how effective governments are in enabling change, and what we can do to influence change from the grassroots level.

Our panellists are:

Natasha Rees - Director, Disability and Carers, Australian Government Department of Social Services

Becky Hirst - Author and Community Engagement Specialist from Becky Hirst Consulting

Matthew Taylor - Managing Director of MET Designs

Mary-Anne Healy - Director, Strategy, Department for Environment and Water

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Our March Lunch & Learn is on the topic of the Great Estate where we will discuss leaving a legacy, preparing for the future, what to do with all your worldly goods and other questions will be explored as we consider our place in time, what we own and how it is shared now and in future generations.

Our panellists are:

Skye Trudgett - First Nations Researcher

Peter Newman - Environmental Scientist

Brad Simmons - Family Wealth Planner

Sarah Gun - Social Justice Warrior

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.

Our first online Lunch & Learn for 2021 is on the topic of 'The New Normal' where we'll look at how our world has been impacted and changed by COVID19, whether there is a new normal and if so, will it last!?

Joining the panel for this fascinating discussion is:

Dr Josie McLean, systems change specialist, international speaker, author, facilitator and coach, and Change Catalyst at The Partnership

Dr Ariella Helfgott, leading senior researcher in sustainable and equitable futures, CEO of Collaborative Futures

Dr Rathana Peou is an international development consultant and advisory board member with expertise in food security, agriculture and climate change in the ASEAN countries.

Moira Were AM, gender lens expert, social entrepreneur and innovator, Founder of Hen House Coop, Chooks SA and Co-Founder of Collab4Good

This is an online event - please register using this link to receive the zoom link.