For-Purpose Organisations
We have extensive experience supporting socially and environmentally-focused organisations realise their goals of achieving impact at scale.
We can work closely with you to understand your needs, providing tailored advisory, education, or a blend of services so you can achieve your goal of becoming a financially sustainable, high-impact business.
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"As a start-up enterprise, the support we received from The Social Impact Hub was a huge lift for us in an area that we didn't have specific in-house expertise. The Social Impact Hub staff really believed in what we are setting out to achieve too, and that in itself was a huge boost!"
Grantley Smith, CEO, Restore Blue
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"The Social Impact Hub have been fundamental for us having the confidence to start Ability Social. This is an ambitious and brave project that requires a large amount of capital, resources and effort which requires some assurance and solid logic. The frameworks and the go-to-market strategy was perfect."
Shaun Christie-David, Founder & Director, PlateItForward
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"The support provided from SIH was very effective. Our consultants were great critical thinkers who were able to wrap their heads around our varied and nuanced challenges and provide help that was practical and tangible and utilized their extensive experience in relevant sectors. We are really grateful for the work and the broader learning experience."
Jessica Bulger, CEO, Australian Indigenous Governance Institute
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"The team at Social Impact Hub is amazing. Very skilled and experienced and extremely responsive to our needs. The level of sophistication and depth of experience of each of the SIH consultants has been of great value to Hotel Etico and I am sure we will be using the outcomes of the work we did together to help us put focus on our actions, better communicate our impact and narrative."
Andrea Comastri, Co-Founder & CEO, Hotel Etico
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"The input of the Social Impact Hub was critical to our ability to raise capital. At every stage these consultants were key advisors and provided practical support and the skill set necessary to make the raise happen."
Marissa Sandler, Co-Founder, Careseekers
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"The Social Impact Hub worked with us to develop a theory of change and impact measurements. This work will elevate our impact reporting to the next level. We did not have the skills internally, so using an external provider, who understands the sector has produced a great result."
Karen Wong, Operations Manager, Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia
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"The Social Impact Hub and PIN consultant, Jon, provided very efficient and relevant coordination and services that met the needs of our business and people. We were working with tight timeframes and with multiple stakeholders, and both Jon and the SIH team were available and efficient in providing high quality advice and guidance. As a result, we finalised a very solid 5 years strategic plan and business plan that will ultimately benefit over 50,000 families in NSW who engage with us and our services."
Nadene Lee, CEO, Playgroup NSW
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"During the last couple of years we successfully changed how we worked in response to the pandemic. We did this quickly, and as a small organisation, did not have time to strategically review our own direction and the changing health environment. The Social Impact Hub, through the SSTF program, gave us the capacity to conduct an environmental review and develop strategies to prioritise our income and revenue streams going forward."
Anthony Brown, Executive Director, Health Consumers NSW
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"The Social Impact Hub's support has literally been life changing for the Warrior Woman Foundation. Being a small organisation it is hard to find the time to work on strategy and growth planning and I'm grateful that I've had the support to do so."
Jessica Brown, Founder and CEO, The Warrior Woman Foundation
How we can help
Strategy
We can support you to devise, develop and execute on strategy, including growth, marketing and fundraising strategies, each with clearly defined objectives aligned to purpose.
Governance
We can support you with the development of comprehensive governance frameworks and policies aligned with your purpose and vision, as well as board development, training and evaluation.
Impact Measurement
We can support you to articulate and demonstrate your impact through the development of a theory of change, logic model and impact measurement frameworks.
Investment Readiness & Capital Raising
Through our comprehensive diagnostic tool, we can work with you to assess your current business capabilities and readiness to raise impact capital. This includes understanding your impact objectives and capital needs to approach the right sources of funding to meet your goals.
Financial Modelling
We can support you to develop rigorous financial models to project your revenue and costings in line with your impact strategy, as well as identify your ongoing funding requirements.
Employee Learning & Development
We can upskill your employees through tailored leadership development and impact knowledge development, providing your workforce the tools and knowledge to help grow and amplify your impact.
Our expertise
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75+ experienced impact consultants
Our Professional Impact Network provides access to over 70 experienced impact consultants to support you.
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National team across NSW, VIC, QLD, TAS, SA & WA
Alongside our head office in Sydney, we have a national team, with consultant working across most States & Territories in Australia.
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20+ years average work experience
Our consultants have deep expertise in their fields, with an average of 20+ years of work experience.
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400+ impact projects and initiatives delivered to date
With 10 years experience in the sector, we’ve delivered hundreds of impact related advisory projects to date.
Our work in action
The Bread & Butter Project
We completed four phases of work with The Bread & Butter Project to help them measure and demonstrate the impact they’ve had on the lives of their trainee bakers. This included creating their Theory of Change, telling the stories of a number of their graduates, developing an impact measurement framework and dashboard, and also producing infographics that illustrated the multi-generational impact of the program on graduates.
Taster Property
We worked with Taster to support their plan to build a social enterprise providing sustainable employment pathways and other solutions to improve the wellbeing of marginalised youth and others in Wagga Wagga and beyond. We produced a comprehensive business and implementation plan to start-up and sustainably scale this initiative.
AbilityMade
Supported by an Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant we successfully raised two rounds of impact investment for this award winning for-purpose technology start-up producing 3D printed customised Ankle Foot Orthoses (AFOs) for children with disabilities. Our multiphased work involved financial modelling, preparation of the investment case and investor documentation, competitor analysis, development of a Theory of Change and impact measurement framework and introductions to impact investors.
Other ways we can support you
Having helped our clients secure several millions of dollars of impact capital in recent years, our Impact Investment Readiness Diagnostic Tool reflects our insights into what it takes to attract impact capital.
The toolkit contains information, a template Constitution and real-world examples of legal issues faced by people creating, financing, advising on or wanting to know more about commercially sustainable ways of generating positive social outcomes.
The Playbook is a self-directed online education resource with learning modules across essential topics regarding designing, measuring, creating and scaling impact.
With a focus on the business, financial, legal and internal capacity needed to grow and amplify impact, our Growth and Impact Diagnostic is designed to help your social enterprise or purpose-driven organisation identify what it needs to thrive.
On Impact Investing Hub, social enterprises can learn the fundamentals of impact investment, gain an understanding of the players in the Australian impact investing ecosystem via our ecosystem maps and list their own impact investment opportunity on our deals library.
