Articles for Social Enterprise

Seymour-based youth group and social enterprise Gnarly Neighbours opens new hub in the neighbourhood
5 months, 1 week ago

Seymour-based youth group and social enterprise Gnarly Neighbours opens new hub in the neighbourhood

ABC  

What started as a youth group offering skating lessons and a safe place for young people has grown into a full social enterprise, with plans to expand across the country. Earlier this year Gnarly Neighbours and Mr Sheridan also opened The Neighbourhood: a cafe, skate shop, print shop and indoor skate park space. "Each neighbourhood can be different, like it …

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Social enterprise Beacon Laundry provides ray of hope for Northern Rivers' flood-ravaged community
8 months, 1 week ago

Social enterprise Beacon Laundry provides ray of hope for Northern Rivers' flood-ravaged community

ABC  

Mel Sass spent her last $50 on fuel to get to a job interview at a laundry with a difference. Wanting to make a difference For Beacon Laundry founder Luke Terry, this is his second social enterprise laundry. "Every community needs a Beacon Laundry, particularly people like Mel, who may need an extra level of support that mainstream workplaces don't …

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Central Victoria social enterprise Healthy Lunch Kitchen is on a mission to re-imagine the school canteen
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Central Victoria social enterprise Healthy Lunch Kitchen is on a mission to re-imagine the school canteen

ABC  

Inside Clunes Neighbourhood House in central Victoria, children are hands on learning the basics of healthy eating. "You can’t underestimate children coming together around food," CEO of parent charity Health Futures Australia Shelley Bowen says. Health Futures Australia CEO Shelley Bowen helps kids cook rice paper rolls in Clunes. 11-year-old Isaac made rice paper rolls in a kids cooking class …

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Socialism And Stock Market Meet At Social Stock Exchange
1 year, 10 months ago

Socialism And Stock Market Meet At Social Stock Exchange

Live Law  

The Hon’ble Finance Minister, as part of the Budget Speech for the Financial Year 2019 -2020 had proposed to initiate steps towards creating a Social Stock exchange in India, under the regulatory ambit of Securities and Exchange Board of India, for listing of social enterprises and voluntary organizations. The Social Stock Exchange shall operate under the guidance of Social Stock …

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With enterprise and fortitude
2 years, 2 months ago

With enterprise and fortitude

China Daily  

China has shifted from a very, very high gear of growth that was unbalanced. China will have a lower GDP growth rate, but development of better quality, more social development, more inclusion, little by little, for example the expansion of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises. China's development needs to focus on both the high end for consumption to spur …

China Development
Volunteers plant hundreds of trees in Ballarat 132 years after Victoria's first Arbor Day
2 years, 6 months ago

Volunteers plant hundreds of trees in Ballarat 132 years after Victoria's first Arbor Day

ABC  

On a crisp Friday morning in Ballarat, the sound of wooden stakes being hit into the dirt is audible before a long, neat row of tree guards is even visible near the corner of Pine Avenue and Cedar Drive. Key points: Ballarat social enterprise Fifteen Trees has spearheaded the planting of 530 Indigenous trees and shrubs in Victoria Park In …

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Waste recycling social enterprise steps up to employ locals, diverts 82 tonnes of waste
3 years, 5 months ago

Waste recycling social enterprise steps up to employ locals, diverts 82 tonnes of waste

ABC  

After three tedious years of handing out resumes, James Holder has found a job he adores. Key points: The youth unemployment rate fell 6.5 per cent in central Queensland from May 2020 to May 2021 Reviva Ibis is a social enterprise business designed to divert waste from landfill and employ locals More than 82-tonnes of waste has been diverted from …

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'Innovation Part of DNA': How Social Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative Amid Challenges of Pandemic
4 years, 1 month ago

'Innovation Part of DNA': How Social Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative Amid Challenges of Pandemic

News 18  

As COVID-19 forces businesses worldwide to reinvent themselves, social entrepreneurs are getting creative to help communities hit hard by the pandemic – from a Ugandan medicine-on-wheels service to upcycled face masks made by vulnerable women in Peru. “Social innovation is the DNA of social entrepreneurs,” said Vincent Otieno Odhiambo, regional director for Ashoka East Africa, a non-profit working with social …

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