_ social enterprise and homelessness presented by mark daniels social traders
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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND HOMELESSNESS
Presented by Mark DanielsSocial Traders
THE POWER OF MARKETS IN ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
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WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SECTOR
Social Traders partnered with the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) at Queensland University of Technology
Define social enterprise Identify and map the Australian social enterprise sector
•Forms social enterprises take?•Industries they operate in?•How many?•Size?•etc…
WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
Social enterprises are organisations that:
a. Are led by an economic, social, cultural, or environmental mission consistent with a public or community benefit;
b. Trade to fulfil their mission;
c. Derive a substantial portion of their income from trade; and
d. Reinvest the majority of their profit/surplus in the fulfilment of their mission
CHARACTERISTICS
•A successful social enterprise is firstly a good business
•All the rules of small business success apply with the added dimension of the social mission
•Live and die based on: •quality of their product or service•understanding their market (customers and competitors)•price•promotion
•Start based on market opportunities.
•They succeed based on wise business heads.
SE’s seek a balance
SOCIAL FINANCIAL
MOTIVATIONS – 3 BUCKETS
Bendigo Community Bank Community ChildcareSovereign HillYackandandah Community Development CoPrickle
Op Shops,‘Excellent Health’Smith Family Textiles
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Employment, training and support
for marginalised groups
Fair RepairsBoystown graffitt removalThe Big Issue
Services in direct response to social or
economic community needs
Income generation for charitable
purposes
ORGANISATIONAL SIZE & INDUSTRY
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Education and training
Food retailing
Accommodation
Arts and recreation services
Residential care services
Transport, postal and warehousing services
Financial and insurance services
Professional, scientific and technical services
Building cleaning, pest control and other support services
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Manufacturing
Construction
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THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SECTOR
Social enterprise is not a new phenomenon –
Foresters Community Finance, Op-shops, Bendigo Community Banks,
Food Co-ops, FCCC, Fair Trade…
The FASES research identified 5000 social enterprises in Australia
The sector is mature, diverse, innovative, sustainable
More than 73% of respondents trading for at least five years
62% for more than ten years
THE STATE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN AUSTRALIA: BUILDING ON FASES
We now have a social enterprise sector in Australia.
Social enterprise
sector
Capital
Opening markets
Ideas
Capacity building
Social enterprise
sector
Capacity building
THE BUILDER
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http://www.socialtraders.com.au and click on
The Crunch is Social Traders social enterprise development support and investment initiative.
The Crunch provides training, mentoring, networks and support, and the opportunity to pitch for a share of the Social Enterprise Development Fund.
Social enterprise
sectorCapital
Social enterprise
sector
Opening markets
FunctionalSilos
Strategic Social Procurement
A cross-functional approach to driving social value
Strategic Procurement
Corporate Social Responsibility
Organisation
http://www.socialtraders.com.au/social-procurement
www.socialenterprisefinder.com.au
Social enterprise
sectorEntrepreneurs
Social enterprise landscape in Australia
SEDIFs
Social Ventures Australia
Social Traders
School for Social
Entrepreneurs
Leadership development of
individual nascent social entrepreneurs
Financial and/or capacity building support for social enterprise ideas
Existing enterprise improvements in
sustainability, trading capability
and viability
Growth and scaling of existing enterprises
Growth and maturity financed
by commercial investors
SoFA
stage
Supports specific mission or social enterprise forms
Supports all missions and social enterprise forms
Universities – Centre for Social
Impact
Social Innovation research and policy
Social Business Australia
Social Enterprise Sydney
(in Sydney)
Social Innovation in Western Australia (in WA)
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WHERE DOES HOMELESSNESS MEET SOCIAL
ENTERPRISE?
What should a homeless motivated
SE focus on?
health
housing
employment
MOTIVATIONS – 3 BUCKETS
Bendigo Community Bank Community ChildcareSovereign HillYackandandah Community Development CoPrickle
Op Shops,‘Excellent Health’Smith Family Textiles
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Employment, training and support
for marginalised groups
Fair RepairsBoystown graffitt removalThe Big Issue
Services in direct response to social or
economic community needs
Income generation for charitable
purposes
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BAWRUNGA ABORIGINAL MEDICAL SERVICE (BAMS)
An Indigenous owned and managed not-for-profit community cooperative in Bowraville NSW in 1999
Five medical clinics in the Nambucca Valley and NSW Western Region, sustained through bulk billing income
40% of bulk billing income goes to BAMS to cover accommodation and administration and 60% to the doctors
BAMS uses its 40% of income to deliver a range of ‘primary health care’ and community outreach programs utilising funds generated from the clinic business, including early childhood nutrition, substance abuse prevention, healthy lifestyles and youth related projects.
Social mission: To address the need for affordable, accessible, and high quality health and medical services through the provision of culturally appropriate primary health services for the local Indigenous population
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Yarra Community Housing
• The organisation exists to provide housing for people at risk of homelessness.
• Providing affordable housing for those at risk of homelessness is a key role for the homelessness sector. Housing Associations are major social enterprises that are also major buyers.
• Yarra is creating job trough their tendering and tenanting of commercial properties
Social mission: A home for every single person
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Cleanable
Developed and owned by a disability support organisation, WCIG to create the opportunity that the market was unable to create
Works across government, not for profit and private contracts worth over $1.5million
The cleaning business is now profitable and the complimentary businesses developed are becoming sustainable
Their target customer is able to and willing to pay mid-market price
They are employing 60 workers, almost half of which have a disability
Over 80% of income is from trade
Social mission: Provide long term employment and retraining opportunities for individuals excluded from the mainstream labour market as a result of mental illness
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Mark DanielsManager Learning and DevelopmentSocial Traders [email protected] 241 766www.socialtraders.com.au
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