NSW Governement - Procurement Enquiry Findings
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NSW Governement - Procurement Enquiry Findings

2024 ended on a high note for our local social enterprise sector when the NSW Government's response to the final report from the parliamentary inquiry into procurement practices came back with lots of support for:

  • Buying from social enterprises

  • Setting and measuring against social and environmental targets

  • And much more…

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Global Report: The State of Social Enterprise
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Global Report: The State of Social Enterprise

The State of the Sector report is from the Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship. It gives a global analysis of social entrepreneurship. This report explores trends, challenges, and opportunities in the global sector.

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Social Enterprise Development Initiative
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Social Enterprise Development Initiative

Social Enterprise Australia has been working with the federal government on the Social Enterprise Development Initiative and we are excited to share that the opportunity for the social enterprise sector to have our say is here.

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Social Enterprise Festival 2023 EOI’s open
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Social Enterprise Festival 2023 EOI’s open

Want to be involved in the social enterprise festival we’re planning for May 2023? Put in an expression of interest as a sponsor, stallholder, food vendor, musician/entertainer, workshop facilitator, organiser and more.

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Welcome to our new CEO, Kylie Flament!
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Welcome to our new CEO, Kylie Flament!

“It is absolutely time that we start recognising that businesses are great tools for getting things done but that the measure of success is not how much money one organisation or person can keep for themselves, but how much they can do for the world”, Kylie says.

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Free certification with Social Traders
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Free certification with Social Traders

Social Traders are providing free certification and recognition membership for SECNA members who are certifying for the first time!

As the social enterprise movement grows across Australia, we encourage you take this opportunity to get independent verification and recognition as a social enterprise.

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Social Enterprise National Strategy: What’s Next
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Social Enterprise National Strategy: What’s Next

Building on conversations with and around the social enterprise sector, the Yunus Centre mapped a possible path forward to an Australian social enterprise strategy. Based on this, the Social Enterprise National Strategy (SENS) team is working on five things in the lead up to the Social Enterprise World Forum in Brisbane in September 2022.

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Social Enterprise Funding to Support Refugee Employment
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Social Enterprise Funding to Support Refugee Employment

Off the back of huge advocacy efforts, the Federal Government has announced trailblazing funding to support refugee employment. It is a $24.6 million four-year grant program with the Department of Home Affairs. This funding will be available to social enterprises to create opportunities for employment for refugee and humanitarian entrants. It will help the sector to maximise the critical role we all know it can play. It will show how government and social enterprise can together unlock greater economic inclusion.

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Introducing the WISE Hub
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Introducing the WISE Hub

In August this year, a collaboration about work integration social enterprises (WISEs) formally kicked off. It's called the WISE Hub. Its purpose is to strengthen the enabling environment for the WISE sector so that it can grow and unlock greater economic inclusion.

Jo Barraket, Cindy Mitchell, Luke Terry, Sally McGeoch, Cindy Carpenter and Jess Moore - all working toward this purpose already - came together to form the WISE Hub Committee. SECNA is providing backbone support.

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