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Published May 2025
BlackCard: Understanding and respecting cultural protocols
BlackCard brought together First Nations leaders, Elders, and guides from across the Continent to share challenges and insights on strengthening relationships between First Nations peoples/communities and the Australian social enterprise sector.
About the learning community
Convened by BlackCard, this learning community created space for First Nations leaders with deep experience establishing businesses that put people, place and planet first. It explored experiences of First Nations communities engaging with the social enterprise sector in Australia. Participants co-created resources to help build the sector’s capability to value and engage respectfully with First Nations peoples and organisations.
About the convenor
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BlackCard operates with the authority of Elders who have provided expertise for over 30 years to enterprises, governments, corporate and industry sectors. BlackCard’s Aboriginal knowledge strengthens ethical behaviour by enabling people to develop an understanding to undertake the same obligations and responsibilities to Land and to each other as Aboriginal people have practised for thousands of years.
How did this learning community work?
This learning community:
- Engaged a group of First Nations social enterprise leaders in June 2025.
- Convened a series of online meetings between June 2025 – December 2025.
How to learn more
To learn more about this learning community contact BlackCard.
Resources
Purpose, Community and Enterprise - Exploring Social Enterprise Through a First Nations Lens
GuidesThis resource has been developed to help explore the connections between First Nations enterprise and the social enterprise sector, providing practical information, reflections and pathways for those interested in learning more.
Purpose, Community and Enterprise - Exploring Social Enterprise Through a First Nations LensAn audio conversation with First Nations social enterprise leaders
OtherThis audio conversation from BlackCard features three First Nations leaders exploring social enterprise through lived experience. Mundanara Bayles of BlackCard, Kylie Penehoe, CEO of the National Indigenous Employment and Training Alliance, and Fiona Harrison, founder of Chocolate on Purpose, share candid insights on purpose, impact, cultural IP and navigating the sector.
An audio conversation with First Nations social enterprise leaders
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