We accelerate change through initiatives and collaborations with others

 

The type of impact we envision is achievable only through collaboration. We collaborate widely within the sector and work particularly closely with our partners to build the Australian impact ecosystem and innovate for impact.

 

Our funders and supporters

 

We are very grateful to the Sidney Myer Fund for providing the Social Impact Hub with multi-year, unrestricted, capacity building support – the exact type of funding we have been advocating for through the Funding for Impact project.

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Since 2014 we've worked with UNSW to educate and empower their UNSW Business School and UNSW Law students through our work-integrated learning program where they work on a real social impact project.

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The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources has provided funding for our Scaling Impact accelerator program through the Incubator Support Initiative.

 
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The Snow Foundation has generously supported the Funding for Impact initiative since inception and most recently, the Reimagine Impact social innovation program.

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EY has sponsored the Scaling Impact accelerator program and also provided a huge amount of pro bono support.

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We are grateful to the Westpac Foundation for responding so quickly to COVID-19 and funding the coordination of a pro bono support program for social enterprises affected by COVID-19.

 
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Since 2018 we've delivered the Guo Social program and now the Social Impact Program at The Incubator at Macquarie University to help members of their community start or grow a social venture, from initial idea, through to a sustainable social enterprise.

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The English Family Foundation have supported a number of our projects, including the Field Guide to Impact Investing for Charitable Trusts & Foundations and the development of the Impact Investment Readiness Diagnostic Tool. We are also grateful to Allan English AM and Belinda Morrissey for their 'engaged philanthropy' model which has been of enormous benefit to the Hub.

We seeded and incubated the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific at the Social Impact Hub, and we continue to support the Summit and serve on the Advisory Committee. Proceeds from the early Summits supported the establishment of the Impact Investing Hub.

 
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The Yarranabbe Foundation is generously supporting our Scaling Impact program and also our impact investment education initiative.

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Seventh Street Ventures has supported our Scaling Impact program.

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The Paul Ramsay Foundation funded our Solve It Australia initiative and we then worked with them on Creating Partnerships for Potential, a Peer to Peer program.

 
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The CAGES Foundation has supported our Funding for Impact initiative.

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The Macquarie Group Foundation has supported our Funding for Impact initiative, and also the Field Guide to Impact Investing for Charitable Trusts and Foundations.

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The Mercy Foundation funded a research project on the use of impact investing to prevent or reduce youth homelessness.

For further supporters of specific projects, please see our Initiatives page.

 

Our collaborators

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