Seedkit

What is Seedkit?

Measuring and communicating impact is difficult but important for many purpose-led organisations. For social enterprises, it can be even more complex because it is important to report on both your impact and the sustainability of your business operations. In addition, the impact you are generating together with your business success needs to be reported to many different stakeholders to provide a full picture of your social enterprise.

Seedkit solves these problems. It is a self-managed impact reporting and learning tool designed with and for social enterprises. It enables you to select or create indicators that accurately reflect your social enterprise's impact goals and business operations. It provides you with a simple and streamlined way of entering and monitoring data for each indicator and it generates meaningful data dashboards and downloadable reports for stakeholders.

The other benefit of Seedkit is that it can produce insights about the social enterprise sector. The developers of Seedkit are highly experienced social enterprise researchers who are able to aggregate and analyse de-identified data from Seedkit to generate insights about the sector and provide social enterprises, policy-makers and funders with the evidence they need to help the sector thrive.

Who is behind Seedkit?

Seedkit is owned and hosted by Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne. Seedkit was co-designed with a group of social enterprises, including organisations* below, who generously shared their time and insights. Any errors on the website are the responsibility of the Seedkit team.

The organisations involved include the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Aussie Veterans Coffee Co., Bendigo Foodshare, Centre for Participation, Cirque du Soil, CURATE, ecoDynamics Nursery, Family Life, FLOAT, For Change Co., Free to Feed, and Fruit2Work. Also part of the list are Gippsland Community Radio Society, Good Cycles, Greatest Good, Helm Youth Services, Hepburn Energy, Homeable, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Kew Neighbourhood Learning Centre, and Lively. Additionally, Moral Fairground, Mountain Monthly Co-operative, Sacred Heart Mission, Segue Community Hub & Arts Cafe, Servants Community Housing, Social Good Outpost, STREAT, Urban Camp Melbourne Cooperative, Wonthaggi Miners Dispensary, Yea Community House, and 100 Story Building are included in this diverse group of organisations.

Seedkit's genesis was in action research conducted through the Social Enterprise Impact Lab, co-funded by Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation and Family Life. The initial development of Seedkit was conducted in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne and funded by Victoria State Government.