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Organisations

This page highlights organisations within the social enterprise sector, showcasing their areas of focus and contributions to positive change. These organisations have chosen to be part of this collaborative space, reflecting their commitment to sharing and building collective impact.

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  • Align Agency

    Align Agency is a creative fundraising and social impact agency. We support nonprofits and social enterprises to measure, manage, and maximise social value.

  • Aurum Foundation

    Aurum Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advance social and public welfare by promoting intersectionality, diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and gender equality in Australia, particularly among disadvantaged and marginalised groups.

  • Australian Library of Things Network

    The Australian Libraries of Things Network formed in 2022. A Library of Things enables members to borrow all sorts of useful items like gardening tools, catering and party gear, camping equipment, tools, board games and more! To meet Australia's 2030 climate targets, we need to reduce our consumption and transition to a truly circular economy as fast as possible. By encouraging reuse and borrowing instead of buying, LoTs all over Australia are already making that change possible.

  • BlackCard

    BlackCard is a 100% Aboriginal-owned business, with a majority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce. As a specialist consultancy and training provider, we partner with First Nations communities, government, corporations, and industry to: deliver cultural capability training and immersion experiences across all organisational levels; create connections for mutually beneficial, culturally sensitive relationships; co-design strategies that build internal capability and create sustainable opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; and use BlackCard’s evaluation methodology and Theory of Change to help companies measure their impact.

  • Cherished Pets

    Cherished Pets is a veterinary social enterprise with a BIG mission. We provide veterinary care and interconnected social services that support the health and wellbeing of both pets and people. We are proudly the world's first B Corp vet and the first veterinary organisation in Australia that focuses on the human-animal bond to enhance the health and wellbeing of people, pets and communities.

  • Common Ground Project

    Common Ground Project is a regenerative farm and social enterprise that promotes food security by creating fair access to locally grown, healthy food.

  • Community Flower Studio

    Community Flower Studio (CFS) is a not-for-profit social enterprise that sells floral arrangements, indoor plants, and art to support youth mentoring programs. All proceeds help young people build resilience, gain life skills, and find meaningful employment, particularly those facing mental health challenges. Through creative workshops and hands-on support, CFS fosters growth and opportunity, empowering youth to thrive in tough circumstances, much like succulents in dry climates.

  • Creative Consultancies

    Connecting why and how so creative and positive impact businesses can thrive. We support businesses in the positive impact and creative industries, their owners and staff to thrive.

  • Curiously West Film Club

    Curiously West Film Club is a free fortnightly film making club based in Western Sydney which meets on Thursday nights at PYT Fairfield.

  • Deadly Futures Aboriginal Corporation

    Deadly Futures Aboriginal Corporation exists to empower First Nations Futures through education, employment, and cultural resilience initiatives. Collaborating with community, we are committed to bringing back our signature Deadly Futures Training and Employment Expo. Over 100 jobs and traineeships for First Nations high school students were provided in our last expo; and over 1,100 students attended across 65+ high schools in Australia. Deadly Futures operates with the authority of Elders, who have provided expertise for over 30 years to enterprises, governments, corporate and industry sectors.

  • Diversity Arts Australia

    Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) is the national voice for ethno-cultural and migrant racial equity in the arts, cultural and creative industries. Our work is underpinned by a human-rights ethic, social justice principles, and the belief that a truly diverse spectrum of creative expression and participation is fundamental to a democratic, inclusive and sustainable creative sector, and society.

  • Environmental Music Prize Ltd

    Environmental Music Limited has launched the prize as part of its mission to support the environmental movement by engaging, energising, and activating diverse audiences through artists and their music. By accelerating the cultural shift, we aim to build broad public support for ambitious climate action at the scale and speed required. Our model for achieving reach and impact is founded on collaboration.

  • First Nations Affairs

    First Nations Affairs supports industry, government and Aboriginal Corporations in creating meaningful initiatives towards a just transition elevating First Nations impacts.

  • FutureTech Australia

    FutureTech is a neurodivergent-led organisation dedicated to inspiring the neurodivergent minds of the future. We believe in building a better world for everyone through community capacity building, advocacy, and delivering neuro-affirming programs focused on well-being.

  • GARUWA

    GARUWA is a First Nations led creative agency dedicated to the practice of intergenerational storytelling. Diversity is the core strength of our work. We are a proudly intercultural group of creatives, unified by a shared passion for the power of imagination and a vision for change.

  • Generation Australia

    Generation Australia is a non-profit providing industry-led training, mentorship, wraparound services and job placement support to help disadvantaged job-seekers secure employment. At the same time, we support businesses to access high quality, motivated and diverse talent, and tackle social/economic issues like unemployment and skills shortages.

  • Glow Up Careers

    Glow Up Careers is an award-winning certified Social Enterprise that supports leaders to transform their workplaces by leveraging our tailored solutions, expert consultants, and multi-faceted approach, enhancing organisational DEI maturity and driving sustainable change at scale.

  • GNCORP

    GNCORP is a business consulting company providing a business consulting service to people with disabilities that have abilities and who are disadvantaged and disenfranchised that have an idea for a product, service or want to solve a problem by becoming entrepreneurs.

  • Goods 4 Good

    Goods 4 Good is a marketplace that offers a range of ethical gifts that are all sourced from social enterprises across Australia. But we’re more than just a gift shop – we’re part of a movement that’s changing the way people think about business.

  • Habitat for Humanity Australia

    Habitat for Humanity Australia builds strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter. We don’t give hand-outs; we give people hand-ups by building homes in partnership with families in Australia and overseas. We work with vulnerable families to build new homes, transforming lives, and support the development of housing finance and construction markets so that more working poor families can access affordable and safe housing.

  • Healing Through Love

    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise whose vision is to shift the awareness of domestic and family violence within the community and to support survivors.

  • Humanitix

    Humanitix is a social impact ticketing platform for hosts where 100% of profits from booking fees are dedicated to charity. Tickets for good, not greed. Hassle-free event ticketing that puts humanity first.

  • Innovation Unit

    Innovation Unit is a not-for-profit social enterprise. We work with people, communities and organisations to address complex challenges, develop new solutions and create social impact at scale.

  • Just Gold

    Just Gold is Australia's first management consultancy and creative agency that is an accredited social enterprise. We deliver management and social impact consulting, digital production and creative solutions. Our team includes highly skilled professionals from vulnerable groups. Profits support pro-bono services for those tackling social issues but lacking access to resources.

  • Kawal Pictures

    Kawal Pictures is a Supply Nation-registered Sydney-based video production, drone video and video training agency. We provide pathways to employment for First Nations camera operators, producers, editors and graphics whizzes. And we make excellent video.

  • Kenshi Life Changing Candles

    Kenshi Candles is a social enterprise dedicated to providing food for people in need. We donate a minimum of 50% of our profits to fund pasta for those experiencing food insecurity in Australia and globally. Our scented soy candles are handmade in Melbourne by refugees from Myanmar, and each 400g candle or 240ml diffuser sold on our website directly funds 2kg of pasta, which is purchased and donated to grassroots food charities across Australia. Because we donate pasta rather than money, there is no middleman or intermediary taking a cut. 100% of the donation from your purchase is going directly to those who need it most.

  • LiveSafe Education PTY LTD

    We take a holistic approach on personal safety and provide overall education on strategies to avoid potentially dangerous situations. Added to this we teach effective, realistic self-defence techniques that can be used to escape or de-escalate dangerous situations.

  • Miss Camellia Tea

    At Miss Camellia Tea, we are traversing the path to becoming a social enterprise and dedicated to using the power of tea to foster positive change in the industry while creating inclusive communities.

  • MumbleMe

    MumbleMe is a social enterprise founded for the future of working mums across Australia. MumbleMe is the careers marketplace that values mums because being a mum is a career advantage.

  • Our Race Community

    Our Race is an anti-racist Story Telling social enterprise who takes a collaborative approach to creating safe, ethical Story Telling processes across media, arts, marketing and communications, research through to advocacy and community engagement. Our variety of experiences and collaborative approach, allow us to work towards the same goal: flipping the power of Story Telling together.

  • p3 Studio

    p3 specialises in strategic organisation redesign, strategy, ​culture and business fundamentals to help companies ​define their end game and find better ways of working

  • Playful Purpose

    Playful Purpose transforms how businesses approach learning and collaboration by using creativity, curiosity, and innovation. Through hands-on workshops and design thinking, they equip organisations with practical tools to harness the power of play, driving meaningful growth and positive change.

  • Red InnCol Inc

    Red InnCol Inc is a not-for-profit platform for citizens to conceive, develop and implement social projects in. We are committed to improve public education in Colombia.

  • Seedkit

    Seedkit helps social enterprises measure and communicate their impact. Seedkit's self-managed reporting platform helps social enterprises to measure, track and communicate operations and impacts via customised dashboards and reports.

  • Shapes and Sounds

    Shapes and Sounds is a social enterprise that destigmatises mental health for Asian communities. The organisation provides mental health programs and resources that are specifically designed by culturally-responsive mental health professionals, for people of Asian and Asian diaspora identities.

  • SisterWorks Inc

    SisterWorks Inc is a grass-roots social enterprise that works closely with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker women to support economic empowerment. Grounded in lived experiences, most of our team migrated to Australia, so we understand the challenges they face.

  • Social Good Outpost

    Social Good Outpost is an Australian strategic and creative communications studio. We work with social enterprise, business and government, providing impact measurement, communication design, strategic mentoring and curation of international diplomacy programs. We have travelled all across Australia, in tiny homes, caravans and on the road to reach rural and regional communities, and live regionally. We have a particular focus on empowering women, LGBTIQ+ and connecting with and supporting Indigenous and ethnic minority communities.

  • Social Impact Measurement Network Australia (SIMNA)

    Social Impact Measurement Network Australia (SIMNA) is a knowledge sharing network for social impact measurement. Its purpose is to help foster the emerging practice of social impact measurement in Australia.

  • Soco Collective

    Soco Collective focus on creating connections to power systems change. SoCo is a trailblazing force in driving equity and inclusion across business, startup and venture capital ecosystem.

  • Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE)

    The Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) is a social enterprise providing best-in-class entrepreneurship education to diverse communities around Australia. In collaboration with industry, government, and community, we co-design and co-deliver work-relevant skills training that fosters learning pathways to ignite, uplift, and inspire.

  • The Creative Co-Operative

    The Creative Co-Operative (CCO) works with diverse, values-aligned organisations to provide design, marketing and digital services as well as support services for small businesses and startups. We’re an all-rounder creative services consultancy structured as a social enterprise.

  • The Horae

    The Horae creates powerful narratives that inspire action and foster communities. The horae is a female-owned, globally distributed creative consultancy. Simply put, we've united to amplify stories that matter.

  • The Multicultural Professional Network

    The Multicultural Professional Network is a People and Planet First Verified Social Enterprise which promotes mutual respect and social inclusion among all groups of people in Australia.

  • The Neurodivergent Coach Ltd

    The Neurodivergent Coach supports Neurodivergent professionals to design careers they love and to embed 'sustainable' ways of working that reduce overwhelm and burnout through Individual and Group Coaching programs.

  • THE Rural Woman Cooperative

    THE Rural Woman Cooperative is the peak body for the advancement of rural women and girls. A visionary Co-op enabling connection of rural women and assisting them to improve their wellbeing, agency and/or financial security, through education, training, networking, mentoring and financial opportunities.

  • The Social Story

    The Social Story is a socially-led communications agency empowering you to maximise your impact and create meaningful relationships with your audience.

  • Yaala Sparkling

    We all experience presence in life’s most joyous moments through connection, laughter and storytelling. These moments are often enjoyed with a drink. Treat yourself and share a drink with us. Showcasing the modern taste of native Australian botanicals through our authentic, healthy and delicious drinks.

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