Social Impact Hub Foundation

ABOUT

The Social Impact Hub Foundation is a charity with DGR1 status that is focused on supporting social enterprises. Through funding, capacity building support and education, the Foundation helps social enterprises grow their impact. The Foundation is a registered Public Benevolent Institution with the ACNC. Donations over $2 are tax deductible. The Foundation receives an annual donation from Social Impact Hub, and seeks other philanthropic funding to sustain its work.

OUR DIRECTORS

  • Michele Goldman

    Director

    Michele is CEO of Asthma Australia, having supported the merger of several Asthma Foundations to form a stronger, national body.  She is leading the organisation in developing new approaches to change the trajectory for people with asthma.  She was previously CEO for the School for Social Entrepreneurs, an organisation which provided learning programs to support sustainable social enterprises.

    Her career has spanned both the corporate, social enterprise and not-for-profit sectors. A strategic thinker with a strong background in marketing and communications, she is passionate about driving collaborative approaches to achieve progress where single organisations are limited and developing partnerships to increase organisational capacity and impact.

    Michele is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an alumnus of the Sydney Leadership Program and the inaugural Social Impact Leadership Australia program.

    She is currently a Director of JewishCare and has held board roles with The Housing Connection and Royal Hospital for Women Foundation.

  • Daniel Grynberg

    Director

    Daniel is an experienced lawyer, director and facilitator. He is the Chief Executive Officer of My Specialised Accommodation Solutions. He is responsible for the management and growth of a portfolio of Specialist Disability Accommodation homes seed-funded by Macquarie Asset Management.

    He serves as non-executive director and investor representative in a number of businesses including LongView Real Estate. He currently serves on the board or advisory committee of number of for purpose organisations, including The Social Impact Hub, Scaling Impact, The Choice Foundation, and the Sydney Jewish Museum.

    He is a director of The Bread & Butter Project, Australia’s first social enterprise artisanal bakery, which exists to train refugees and asylum seekers and help find them sustainable long-term employment.

    Prior to joining MySAS, Daniel commenced his career as a lawyer at Freehills, and served in a number of senior in-house legal and business affairs roles, including nearly a decade as General Counsel for the Meriton Group, Australia’s largest developer and owner of residential property. He has served as CEO of a community fundraising and strategic planning organisation.

  • Jessica Mendoza-Roth

    Director

    Jessica is the Founder and Director of the Social Impact Hub. She is also a consultant to the impact investment sector, having served as the Impact Strategist for Blue River Group, an independent impact investment services firm, and opened the Sydney office of Impact Investment Group. Previously, Jessica was a Solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney and holds a B.A. and LL.B. (with First Class Honours) from UNSW and a LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

FOUNDATION OBJECTIVES

  1. Identifying, engaging and developing partnerships with organisations who share the Foundation’s purpose of relieving disadvantage and suffering of Disadvantaged Persons;

  2. Raising funds and providing financial assistance to organisations to assist them to advance their purpose or undertake specific projects which achieve this purpose;

  3. Working in partnership with, or otherwise in co-operation with, organisations on projects that achieve the Foundation’s purpose, including building capacity and improving expertise for organisations to sustain and scale the impact of organisations;

  4. Develop and provide education programs specifically for organisations to sustain and scale the impact of organisations to relieve the disadvantage and suffering of Disadvantaged Persons.