Australian Social Enterprises

Enitiate is an organisation which runs semester-long projects in which engineering students gain experience working on technical projects to assist charitable or community organisations. Enitiate aims to empower engineering students to generate tangible value to community partners, through the engagement in real-world projects under the guidance of professional industry partners.

Almost 140 years ago, GFS Perth was founded to safeguard working-class country girls who had left their homes to seek work in the city. Today, GFS continues this heritage by creating welcoming spaces that enable friendship and inspires people to thrive, in a variety of ways including through creation care.

Ieramugadu Store Maya and Cafe are an Aboriginal-Owned not-for-profit supermarket and cafe. We create impact by providing culturally safe jobs and training for First Nations people, supporting food security for families and youth at risk, and offering inclusive employment for those facing barriers. Profits are reinvested into community-led programs that promote wellbeing, empowerment, and long-term opportunity. The mission of our social enterprise is to improve food security, create meaningful employment, and empower First Nations people through community-owned, culturally safe, and sustainable services that reinvest profits back into local wellbeing and development.

Little Go Getters offers enterprising behaviour-focused resources to young people throughout Australia. That includes books, activity books, and school and extra-curricular programming to help youth see themselves as enterprising and get into action to develop enterprise self-efficacy. These resources are being developed into a toolkit that collaborators can localise and contextualise for their communities. This localisation is to help youth in those communities see themselves as being enterprising and relate to the content. This collaboration is in the model of developing income-producing projects for the collaborator to help diversify their organisation s revenue streams, or as their own small business.

Providing a safe space to reflect on the mother-infant relationship with no judgement or competition

Perth Kids Hub was established to help families find services to support their child’s development and mental well-being. Find the right support for your child s wellbeing, development and learning Explore Perth’s trusted paediatric professionals, from assessments to therapies, all in one place. The Perth Kids Hub offers parents a platform to find the service they are looking for to support their child.

We inspire vulnerable youth to realise their potential through innovative food education. Prepare Produce Provide is the trading name for the not-for profit organisation Live To Tell Your Story Inc established in 2013 by like-minded and passionate home economics teachers in Western Australia with a vision for training and assisting young people to develop career pathways in the education, food and hospitality industries. Over the last 10 years the organisation has expanded its membership and developed innovative and effective projects that bring together teachers, chefs and other food industry stakeholders to impart skills to young people to prepare and cook nutritious and quality meals benefitting a wide range of social and community causes.

We teach technical skills, build career pathways and inspire women to code. Our goal is to impact 100,000 women by the end of 2025. Our programs are offered either free or low cost to our end-users (the women we upskill) with our main customer being large corporate who want a talent pipeline of women into their business.

We are creating sustainable SOLutions for those in need of Education, Employment and or Small Enterprise skills. Sole Studio is a Creative Up-skill Community Connecting People to Potential. We offer Sol Sessions which are a social activities, Skill Ability Programs & Concept Creation Workshops (Small Business Building Academy) that use a mix of social, collective and experiential learning to create up-skill learning outcomes and skill building empowerment solutions for said individuals, organisations or communities.

Waterstreets, aims to demonstrate the framework of social impact projects like Noble Bridge Farm which, in turn foster and the promote entrepreneurial skill and a space for innovation and practical application.

We re a nonprofit social enterprise leading the way in youth entrepreneurship in Australia. We deliver a range of education programs that develop the entrepreneurial mindset, skillset + toolset of young people aged 10 - 25 to help prepare for their future