FASES Report (Finding Australia's Social Enterprise Sector)
'Putting the Pieces Together' A business planning guide for social enterprise (Parramatta Council)
'To study how the public sector can support growth and sustainability in social enterprise activity.' Churchill Fellowship Report (2008)
Parramatta City Council links and resources
The following comprehensive list of links is from the Parramatta City Council website.
Examples of Australian Social Enterprises
- Abbotsford Convent - www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/
- ASRC Catering - www.catering.asrc.org.au/
- Biddy Bags - www.biddybags.com.au/
- Bleeding Heart - www.bleedingheart.com.au/
- Breakout and Justice Action - www.breakout.net.au/ and www.justiceaction.org.au/
- CERES - www.ceres.org.au/
- Charcoal Lane - www.charcoallane.com.au/
- Cleanable - www.cleanable.com.au/
- cool nrg - www.coolnrg.com/
- Creative Paper Tasmania - www.creativepapertas.com.au/
- Euraba Paper - www.eurabapaper.com.au
- Feral Arts - feralarts.com.au/
- Food Connect - www.foodconnect.com.au
- Future Employment Opportunities - www.feo.net.au
- Gideon’s Shoes - www.gideon.com.au/
- Goolarri Media Enterprises - www.gme.com.au/
- Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) - ice.org.au/
- Lentil As Anything - www.lentilasanything.com/
- Mad Cap Café - www.ermha.org/
- Mars Hill Café - www.marshillcafe.com.au
- Message Stick - www.messagestick.com.au/
- MultiLink Interpreter Service - www.multilink.org.au/
- Murri’s Delight - www.qite.com/
- Nundah Co-op - www.ncec.com.au
- Outlook Environmental - outlookenviro.org.au/
- Penny Farthings - www.pushbikeparking.com/
- Print Side Up - www.printsideup.com.au/
- Reverse Garbage - www.reversegarbage.com.au/
- Ross House - www.rosshouse.org.au/
- Santos Natural Food Stores - santostrading.com.au/
- Sorghum Sisters - www.ames.net.au/
- Speak Out - www.speakout.com.au
- STREAT - streat.com.au/
- Suited for Work - www.sfw.org.au/
- Sweet Freedom - www.sweetfreedom.org
- The Big Issue Australia - www.bigissue.org.au/
- The Smith Family Commercial - www.thesmithfamily.com.au/
- Tree House Recycling - www.treehouserecycling.org.au/
- Tribal Warrior Association - www.tribalwarrior.org/
- Vibewire - vibewire.org
- Workventures – ITEC Repair Centre - www.sirc.com.au/
- Yackandandah Community Development Company - www.yackandandah.com/
- Youthinc - www.youthinc.org.au/
Other Australian Social Enterprise Resources
- Australian Employee Ownership Association - www.aeoa.org.au
- Australian Institute for Social Entrepreneurship - www.aise.net.au/
- Community Builders – Enterprise - communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/
- Community Cooperative Connections (CCC) e-news - www.business.uts.edu.au/
- Community Enterprise Resource Kit – Brotherhood of St Laurence - www.communityenterprise.org.au/
- Forester’s Community Finance - www.foresters.org.au
- Social Firms Australia - www.socialfirms.org.au/
- The Mercury Centre - www.mercury.org.au
- NSW Office of Fair Trading – Cooperatives - www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/
- QUT’s Social Enterprise wiki - wiki.qut.edu.au/
- School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia - www.sse.org.au
- Social Enterprise Hubs - www.socialenterprisehubs.org
- Social Traders - www.socialtraders.com.au
- UnitingCare Wesley’s Social Enterprise Handbook - www.ucwesleyadelaide.org.au/
International Social Enterprise Resources
- Ashoka - www.ashoka.org/
- Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CED) - www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/
- Canadian Cooperative Association - www.coopscanada.coop/
- Care Enterprise Partners - care.ca/
- Citizen Base - www.citizenbase.org/
- Changemakers - www.changemakers.net/
- Community Wealth Ventures Inc - www.communitywealth.com/
- Craig Dearden Phillips - www.craigdeardenphillips.com
- Employee Ownership Association (UK) - www.employeeownership.co.uk/
- Enterprising Nonprofits - www.enterprisingnonprofits.ca/
- FourthSector.net - fourthsector.net/
- Government Innovators Network -www.innovations.harvard.edu/
- Idea Tree (UK) - www.ideatree.org.uk/
- Innovation Exchange - innovation-exchange.org/
- Institute for Social Entrepreneurs - www.socialent.org/
- International Cooperative Alliance -www.ica.coop/
- Non-profit Enterprise and Self-sustainability team (NESsT) - www.nesst.org/
- Office of Social Entrepreneurship - www.crt.state.la.us/
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Enterprising Ideas - www.pbs.org/
- Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE) - www.rise-sw.co.uk/
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - www.schwabfound.org/
- School for Social Entrepreneurs - www.sse.org.uk/
- Skoll Foundation - www.skollfoundation.org/
- Social Capital Gateway - www.socialcapitalgateway.org/
- Social Capital Partners - www.socialcapitalpartners.ca/
- Social Edge Social Entrepreneurship - www.socialedge.org/
- Social and Enterprise Development Innovations - www.sedi.org/
- Social Enterprise Alliance - www.se-alliance.org/
- Social Enterprise London - www.sel.org.uk/
- Social Enterprise Magazine - www.socialenterprisemag.co.uk/
- The Social Enterprise People - www.thesocialenterprisepeople.co.uk/
- Social Enterprise Reporter - www.sereporter.com
- Social Entrepreneurs Ireland - www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/
- Social Innovation Conversations - www.siconversations.org/
- Stanford Social Innovation Review - www.ssireview.org
- University Network for Social Entrepreneurship - www.universitynetwork.org/
- UnLtd - www.unltd.org.uk/
- Virtue Ventures Social Enterprise Typology - virtueventures.com/setypology/
- Voluntary Gateway Canada Social Enterprise -voluntarygateway.ca/
