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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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The Land Back Foundation held an interactive session exploring how social enterprises can practice long-term allyship, accountability, and activism. The discussion shared lived experiences and practical actions for embedding equity and justice in everyday business.
Agents of Change: Insights from First Nations Social Enterprise Leaders
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A Learning Resource for Mob Engaging with the Social Enterprise Sector
ACRE held an informative webinar that explored how social enterprises in rural Australia can build and strengthen networks to overcome the challenges of distance, scale, and under-resourcing. Drawing on insights from rural leaders, funders, and network builders, the session highlighted how collaboration, local leadership, and co-design can foster thriving, place-based ecosystems. It also introduced the upcoming co-design process for a Rural Social Enterprise Network for Australia.
Building and Strengthening Rural Social Enterprise Networks
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The ASE Group convened a high-energy webinar exploring how to support and sustain the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Through powerful storytelling, reflection and lived experience, the session unpacked the challenges, motivations and practical tools young founders need to thrive - while centring purpose, resilience, and deep commitment to impact.
Building the Next Generation of Social Entrepreneurs
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Building Worlds: Strengthening storytelling practices towards more just and liberated futures
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This webinar explores how ethical storytelling can empower rather than exploit, centring the voices of those with lived experience. The presenters share their experiences in co-developing the Transformational Ethical Story Telling (TEST) framework, designed to shift power in storytelling by embedding values-based, anti-oppressive practices into everyday communications, branding, and policy.
Community Story Holding and CaretakingThe Land Back Foundation held an interactive webinar exploring First Nations’ worldviews on social enterprise and encouraging actors across the social enterprise sector to reflect on our own worldviews and what they mean for our relationships with community and Country.
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This open learning webinar, convened by First Nations Affairs, explores what climate leadership looks like when grounded in First Nations governance and worldviews. Speakers discuss co-design, equity, and cultural integrity - calling for stronger accountability, genuine partnerships, and decision-making that centres Country, community wellbeing, and justice.
First Nations Governance, Finance, Land and the Climate Crisis
Shifting Ground held an interactive webinar with agents of social change representing a cross-section of First Nations social enterprises and businesses. It explored the principle: "If you can get right what you do in relation to First Nations people, your work with all people and communities will benefit."
First Nations Principles for Social Enterprise Development
This webinar explores how social enterprises can scale their impact without losing sight of their purpose. Drawing on Umbo’s experience delivering allied health services to regional and remote Australia, the session shares practical lessons on growth, governance, culture, impact measurement and navigating the tension between mission and sustainability.
Growing with Purpose
The Data Conversation led a practical webinar exploring how social enterprises can feel more confident and capable when working with data. With tips, tools and analogies to ease data anxiety, the session offered a friendly entry point to building a data-informed culture, regardless of organisational size, experience or starting point.
Having Better Conversations about Data: Tips for Social Enterprises
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How Legal Structures Shape Impact Investing
This webinar, marking World Human Rights Day, explores the role of human rights in business. Featuring sector leaders and advocates, it shares insights on the importance of embedding safety, dignity, fairness and inclusion into everyday business operations. It outlines Australia’s current human rights framework, and highlights opportunities for social enterprises to lead rights-respecting business practices.
Human Rights is Our Business
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Impact Measurement for Social Enterprises
Social Good Outpost hosted a webinar sharing how social enterprises begin and evolve their impact measurement. With insights from TABOO, Echo Impact, and Native, the session explored practical ways to track what matters, centre community outcomes, and embed ethical, meaningful measurement into everyday business practice.
Impact Measurement Journeys for Social Enterprise
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Lessons from Failure: A Funder's Perspective | Part 2
Failure is often where the most valuable learning happens. In this candid conversation, social enterprise leaders share personal stories of setbacks, tough decisions and unexpected lessons. Together they explore resilience, risk, leadership and how embracing failure can strengthen both impact and long-term sustainability.
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Let's Talk About Youth Engagement
Regen Labs and Regen Melbourne led an insightful webinar exploring how social enterprises can work across system layers, or "altitudes" to organise for place-based change. Using frameworks, real-world projects, and the concept of “altitude sickness,” the session offered practical tools to strengthen collaboration, coherence, and momentum in complex systems work.
Organising in Place and Working Across Altitudes
This webinar explores how the Orienting Futures learning community brought social enterprise practitioners together to develop regenerative, decolonising and equity-centred approaches to systems change. Participants share how relational learning, brave conversations and practical frameworks strengthened their confidence, leadership and capacity to create more just, collaborative and sustainable futures.
Orienting Futures: Emerging Culturally and Ecologically Responsive Practice
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Peer Learning in the Real World: Reflections from a WISE Community of Practice
This article highlights how charities can connect with a new generation of tech founders who are becoming major donors in Australia. Drawing on the Australian Tech Giving Report, it explains how tech wealth is growing, why tech givers give differently, and how not-for-profits can adapt to engage them.
Riding the Tech Wave: How Charities Can Positively Engage with the Innovation Generation
Sefa Partnerships convened a webinar exploring how funding for social impact is designed, delivered and experienced across rural and remote Australia. Drawing on a peer learning community of funders and impact leaders, the session shared insights on obstacles and opportunities to increase the flow of funding across Australia’s diverse geographies.
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QSEC and Gov Ready held an interactive webinar exploring how social enterprises can get procurement ready. They shared practical tools and strategies to help social enterprises prepare compelling applications, demonstrate value, and build long-term readiness for public sector opportunities.
Tendering and Applying with Confidence: Two-part workshop series | workshop 2
Just Gold held an interactive webinar to share insights and lived experiences from autistic social entrepreneurs and encourage the social enterprise sector to create inclusive, affirming environments for neurodiverse thinking and practice.
Think Neurodivergence: Autistic Pride and Entrepreneurship
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Truth-telling in Social Enterprise: A Deep History
QSEC, ArcBlue and Gov Ready held an interactive webinar exploring what it means for social enterprises to be procurement ready. Drawing on experience across government and private sector procurement, the session shared practical strategies to help social enterprises position themselves effectively, communicate their value, and demonstrate capability.
Unlocking Social Procurement Opportunities: Two-part workshop series | workshop 1
Co-operative Bonds held an informative webinar exploring how social enterprises and co-operatives contribute to the broader social and solidarity economy. The session unpacked global developments, local examples, and practical tools for embedding co-operative values into governance, community ownership, and sustainable business models.
Unpacking the Social Economy
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Value of Good Impact Measurement
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Weaving Conditions for Prosperous and Regenerative Regional Economies
BlakCast hosted a powerful webinar exploring the role of truth-telling in social change. In collaboration with John-Paul Janke, Joshua Creamer, and Stacey Thomas, the session examined how organisations can support healing, justice, and reconciliation by centring equity, community, and courageous conversations.
What does Truth-telling for Social Change Look Like?
This session brings together voices from across the social enterprise ecosystem to share what’s been learned from over two decades of funding and supporting Work Integrated Social Enterprises (WISEs).
WISE in Practice: Insights from the WISE Learn Book