Useful resources

Looking for help or inspiration? Then you might find the links and resources on this page useful.

Our resource centre also includes a SEFA toolkit for early-stage social enterprises, as well as links to SEFA publications, such as our annual financial reports, impact reports and newsletters.

Our Blog includes our latest news and updates.

Australian

• Social Enterprises Sydney provides useful resources for Australian social enterprises

• Parramatta City Council provides examples, useful documents, planning guides and blog sites

• Social Traders (host of the annual Social Enterprise Awards) provides inspiring articles and tools that help build social enterprises from the ground up

• School of Social Entrepreneurs information about social change and accelerator programs

• Social Impact Investment Knowledge Hub from the NSW Government’s Department of Premier and Cabinet provides expert advice exchange, sample legal documents and articles on what’s new in impact investing

• The Centre for Social Impact, a collaboration of three universities UNSW Australia, Swinburne University of Technology, and an The University of Western Australia

• Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals publishes articles on social enterprise in various sectors.

International

• seToolbelt is an open content resource hub that helps social enterprises plan, launch, manage and grow successfully

• Global Impact Investing Network provides resources that explain impact investing as well as the IRIS Impact Measurement Framework for metrics that measure social, environmental and financial performance

• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship highlights leading models of sustainable social innovation

• Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, part of the University of Oxford, UK, provides online resources for social entrepreneurs and updates on research and long-term thinking

• Impact Investment Exchange Asia is home to Asia’s first private and public platforms for social enterprises to raise capital efficiently

• Big Society Capital provides resources for UK social entrepreneurs, resources to help them find finance, and information for investors on how to invest for social and financial returns

• Global Innovation Fund invests in social innovations that help the developing world.