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This library holds a chosen collection of useful tools, guides, and resources in the social enterprise sector. You can explore guides, articles, and more to support your journey. If you're starting a social enterprise, facing sector challenges, or looking into the impact economy, you’ll find something useful here.
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This 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.
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This video features Aaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work, sharing insights on transforming outdated work practices.
Brave New Work
This is a recorded panel discussion from Legrand's International Women's Day broadcast, featuring Success Works, a not-for-profit supporting women with a criminal history into employment. It shares how mentoring, training and employer partnerships help women rebuild their lives. It explores fair-chance employment in practice.
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This short, two-minute video explains the Business Model Canvas. The tool helps people plan and build business ideas for new ventures. It comes from Strategyzer’s book *Business Model Generation* and is used by entrepreneurs and organisations around the world.
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This video introduces Doughnut Economics, a framework by economist Kate Raworth that balances human needs with planetary health. Challenging traditional growth-focused economics, it emphasises well-being within ecological limits. The concept offers a compelling perspective on sustainable development and highlights the role of social enterprises in the impact economy, engaging stakeholders effectively.
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This article provides a concise overview of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, promoting prosperity while safeguarding the planet. These goals emphasise poverty eradication, economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection to address global challenges effectively.
Do you know all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
First Australians is a seven-part documentary series that tells the history of Australia from the perspective of its First Peoples, from 1788 to 1993. It gives voice to stories that have rarely been told on Australian television. It is relevant to anyone seeking to understand the foundations of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
First Australians
This video walks through HubSpot's new Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) tool, which tracks how visible a brand is on AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
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Theaster Gates is a potter and community leader who shares how he transformed empty, run-down buildings into places where people can connect and create. In this talk, he shows how to see problems as opportunities, start with what you already have, and use art and culture to bring communities together and create positive change.
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This video series explores 'Indigenous Leadership in Business,' highlighting themes of collective leadership, stewardship, relationships, community benefit, and cultural responsibility to inspire empowerment and transformative change.
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Dieter Helm’s video lecture series examines the steps needed for a sustainable economy, addressing polluter responsibility, resource maintenance, and investment, with detailed insights, downloadable slides, and an accompanying book.
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This video examines how societal power dynamics—capitalism, patriarchy, and racism—shape behaviours, leadership, and business outcomes. It explores healing power structure wounds, aligning leadership with values, and empowering individuals through self-awareness and systemic change.
Power Dynamics In Society Explained: Accelerate Your Business And Leadership Skills
This 40 minute video uses real life examples to share how to build, launch and optimise a simple social media strategy. It is a pragmatic guide for small organisations with limited resources and time-poor people wearing multiple hats.
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This video tutorial explains social procurement and why it matters. It outlines the key drivers behind social procurement, how the Social Traders marketplace operates, and what social enterprises need to prepare in order to access contracts and opportunities through this growing market.
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This long-form lecture from Harvard Innovation Labs explains how to plan a strong go-to-market strategy. It outlines key steps for launching a product or service, understanding customers, and choosing the right channels. Although designed for start-ups, the framework is useful for any organisation entering a market.
Startup Secrets: Go to Market Strategies
The Cynefin Framework guides leaders in matching actions to context by distinguishing different domains. It enables sense-making, helping leaders identify true complexity and respond effectively to challenges.
The Cynefin Framework - A Leader's Framework for Decision Making and Action
In this video, Erik Abrahmsson shares his key takeaways from the Eric Ries book, The Lean Startup. He distils them into five key principles. Erik suggests that by following this "build-measure-learn" cycle, startups can reduce waste, improve efficiency, and increase their chances of creating products that truly meet customer needs.
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A Theory of Change explains how actions lead to change. It shows the link between goals, activities, and results. This short video uses a simple example to show how the tool can help you set clear goals and map the steps needed to reach them.
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This video explains the Theory of Change, a tool that helps organisations plan and measure their social impact. It breaks down key parts of the model, including inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact. The video also shares practical tips for improving impact measurement and involving stakeholders in the process.
Theory of Change Step by Step | Why Nonprofits Need This Framework
This video, produced by Regen Labs, introduces weavers: the people and small organisations who quietly coordinate community-led economic development. It argues their work is often invisible and underfunded, and calls for weavers to be recognised and properly resourced in long-term economic transitions.
The Weavers: The Critical Role of Place-Based Convenors for a Regenerative Future
The ‘Three Horizons Framework’, developed by Bill Sharpe, is a strategic tool for managing long-term transformation. It maps three phases of change—current systems (Horizon 1), visionary futures (Horizon 3), and the transition zone (Horizon 2)—helping organisations navigate innovation and address emerging challenges. Widely used in future thinking and strategic planning, the framework offers practical steps for bridging the present with transformative visions.
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Steven Johnson is an author who studies how new ideas are created. In this video, he explains the main ideas from his book 'Where Do Good Ideas Come From?' He shares common patterns seen in history during times when creativity and innovation were strong, and what we can learn from them.
Where good ideas come from