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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND
HOMELESSNESS
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Presented by Mark Daniels
Social Traders
THE POWER OF MARKETS IN ADDRESSING SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
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WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SECTOR
Social Traders partnered with the Australian Centre for
Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) at Queensland
University of Technology
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Define social enterprise
Identify and map the Australian social enterprise sector
• Forms social enterprises take?
• Industries they operate in?
• How many?
• Size?
• etc…
WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
Social enterprises are organisations that:
a. Are led by an economic, social, cultural, or
environmental mission consistent with a
public or community benefit;
b. Trade to fulfil their mission;
c. Derive a substantial portion of their income
from trade; and
d. Reinvest the majority of their profit/surplus
in the fulfilment of their mission
CHARACTERISTICS
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A successful social enterprise is firstly a good business
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All the rules of small business success apply with the added
dimension of the social mission
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Live and die based on:
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quality of their product or service
understanding their market (customers and competitors)
price
promotion
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Start based on market opportunities.
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They succeed based on wise business heads.
SE’s seek a balance
SOCIAL
FINANCIAL
MOTIVATIONS – 3 BUCKETS
Employment,
training and support
for marginalised
groups
Fair Repairs
Boystown graffitt removal
The Big Issue
Services in direct
response to social or
economic
community needs
Bendigo Community Bank
Community Childcare
Sovereign Hill
Yackandandah Community
Development Co
Prickle
Income generation
for charitable
purposes
Op Shops,
‘Excellent Health’
Smith Family Textiles
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ORGANISATIONAL SIZE & INDUSTRY
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Personal and other services
5.9
Construction
1.7
Electricity, gas, water and waste… 0.7
Manufacturing
160
Mining
140
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0.2
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
4.6
Other administrative and support…
Building cleaning, pest control…
120
3.3
2.4
Employment services
7.4
Professional, scientific and…
Rental, hiring and real estate…
100
Financial and insurance services
2.4
2.2
1.1
Information, media and…
Transport, postal and…
80
7.1
1.9
Social assistance services
60
9.5
Residential care services
2.8
Hospitals, medical and other…
2.4
Arts and recreation services
20
Food and beverage services
40
9.8
Accommodation
4.8
Other retail trade
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9.6
Food retailing
5.9
Wholesale trade
4.5
Education and training
0
Small
Medium
Large
26.3
0
5
10
15
20
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THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SECTOR
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Social enterprise is not a new phenomenon –
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Foresters Community Finance, Op-shops, Bendigo Community Banks,
Food Co-ops, FCCC, Fair Trade…
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The FASES research identified 5000 social enterprises in Australia
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The sector is mature, diverse, innovative, sustainable
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More than 73% of respondents trading for at least five years
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62% for more than ten years
THE STATE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN
AUSTRALIA: BUILDING ON FASES
We now have a social enterprise sector in Australia.
Capital
Social
Opening
enterprise markets
building
sector
Capacity
Ideas
Social
enterprise
sector
Capacity
building
THE BUILDER
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The Crunch is Social Traders social
enterprise development support and
investment initiative.
The Crunch provides training, mentoring,
networks and support, and the opportunity
to pitch for a share of the Social Enterprise
Development Fund.
Social
enterprise
sector
Capital
Social
Opening
enterprise markets
sector
A cross-functional approach to
driving social value
Organisation
Strategic
Procurement
Functional
Silos
Strategic Social Procurement
Corporate Social
Responsibility
http://www.socialtraders.com.au/social-procurement
www.socialenterprisefinder.com.au
Social
enterprise
sector
Entrepreneurs
Social enterprise landscape in Australia
Supports all
missions
and social
enterprise
forms
Universities –
Centre for Social
Impact
School for
Social
Entrepreneurs
Supports
specific
mission or
social
enterprise
forms
Social
Innovation
in Western
Australia
(in WA)
SEDIFs
Social Traders
Social Enterprise
Sydney
(in Sydney)
Social Ventures Australia
Social Business
Australia
SoFA
stage
Social Innovation
research and policy
Leadership
development of
individual nascent
social entrepreneurs
Financial and/or
capacity building
support for social
enterprise ideas
Existing enterprise
improvements in
sustainability,
trading capability
and viability
Growth and scaling
of existing
enterprises
Growth and
maturity financed
by commercial
investors
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WHERE DOES HOMELESSNESS MEET SOCIAL
ENTERPRISE?
What should a homeless motivated
SE focus on?
health
housing
employment
MOTIVATIONS – 3 BUCKETS
Employment,
training and support
for marginalised
groups
Fair Repairs
Boystown graffitt removal
The Big Issue
Services in direct
response to social or
economic
community needs
Bendigo Community Bank
Community Childcare
Sovereign Hill
Yackandandah Community
Development Co
Prickle
Income generation
for charitable
purposes
Op Shops,
‘Excellent Health’
Smith Family Textiles
© Social Traders Limited 2012
BAWRUNGA ABORIGINAL MEDICAL SERVICE (BAMS)
 An Indigenous owned and managed notfor-profit community cooperative in
Bowraville NSW in 1999
 Five medical clinics in the Nambucca
Valley and NSW Western Region,
sustained through bulk billing income
 40% of bulk billing income goes to BAMS
to cover accommodation and
administration and 60% to the doctors
Social mission:
To address the need for affordable,
accessible, and high quality health
and medical services through the
provision of culturally appropriate
primary health services for the local
Indigenous population
 BAMS uses its 40% of income to deliver
a range of ‘primary health care’ and
community outreach programs utilising
funds generated from the clinic business,
including early childhood nutrition,
substance abuse prevention, healthy
lifestyles and youth related projects.
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Yarra Community Housing
• The organisation exists to provide
housing for people at risk of
homelessness.
• Providing affordable housing for those at
risk of homelessness is a key role for the
homelessness sector. Housing
Associations are major social enterprises
that are also major buyers.
• Yarra is creating job trough their
tendering and tenanting of commercial
properties
Social mission:
A home for every single person
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Cleanable
 Developed and owned by a disability
support organisation, WCIG to create the
opportunity that the market was unable to
create
 Works across government, not for profit
and private contracts worth over
$1.5million
Social mission:
Provide long term employment and
retraining opportunities for
individuals excluded from the
mainstream labour market as a result
of mental illness
 The cleaning business is now profitable
and the complimentary businesses
developed are becoming sustainable
 Their target customer is able to and
willing to pay mid-market price
 They are employing 60 workers, almost
half of which have a disability
 Over 80% of income is from trade
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Mark Daniels
Manager Learning and Development
Social Traders
[email protected]
0414 241 766
www.socialtraders.com.au
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