2022! What a 12 months. A 12 months of progress and impression for StartSomeGood, made doable by nice collaborations.
Woh.
What a 12 months.
All of us at StartSomeGood are proud and exhausted by how a lot we did and what we achieved this 12 months.
It was, like most years, stuffed with steps each forwards and again, however now it’s over we are able to look again and see how far we’ve come, and really feel actually enthusiastic about what’s subsequent in 2023.
We began the 12 months in a difficult place, battered by two years of COVID disruptions throughout which our fundamental income, customized packages for foundations and types, virtually went to zero, and our staff shrunk all the way down to co-founders solely.
Now we’re a staff of eight, our new impression funding platform LendForGood simply hit $1M raised within the first 12 months and picked up the Market Builder Award on the Australian Affect Funding Awards final week — which is an effective way to complete the 12 months!
We hosted (or are at present internet hosting) 9 capacity-building and accelerator packages for social enterprises and neighborhood initiatives this 12 months, with greater than 250 members, together with 100 in our Good Hustle, SHIFT and emerge social enterprise design packages, 13 enterprises within the Heaps Good Hustle Round Economic system Accelerator and seven enterprises within the Indigenous Crowdfunding Program.
We additionally had 40 founders and enterprise leaders be part of us on the SEWF Roadtrip, a 3 day “transferring convention” as we visited social enterprises and discovered from one another on our solution to the Social Enterprise World Discussion board in Brisbane in September. This was the spotlight of the 12 months for all our staff members who have been a part of it.
We hosted 21 stay calls with main social entrepreneurs, 21 small group teaching classes with founders and 6 mastermind classes, most of those completely for members of our StartSomeGood Neighborhood.
We helped ING interact and curate nice social enterprises for the Good Finds Market and may’t wait to share some nice new alternatives in partnership with ING within the new 12 months.
And we overhauled our web site to present a greater overview of the varied methods we assist folks begin good right now.
None of this may be doable with out nice companions and collaborations.
We have to say a couple of thank-yous.
For LendForGood we’re really blessed to have the most effective joint-venture accomplice a social enterprise might presumably want for in Pink Hat Affect. We’re extremely grateful for the collaboration of Pink Hat Affect’s founders Cameron Neil, Paul Howoth and David Carbines, together with Greg Peel, former CEO of Neighborhood Sector Banking, on the 5 12 months journey to get LendForGood thus far.
Big due to our preliminary funders and traders together with Karrikin Basis, June Canavan Basis, English Household Basis and Snow Basis and likewise to all of the intermediaries, lenders and enterprises who’ve joined us and helped catalyse the primary $1 Million of impression funds raised by means of LendForGood, a milestone we reached two days in the past.
Thanks to ING Australia for trusting us because the Social Enterprise advocate and coordinator for the Good Finds Market and different social enterprise help packages.
Thanks to the Queensland Division of Employment, Small Enterprise and Coaching for his or her funding of the emerge program, making it free for Queenslanders, by means of the Social Enterprise Sector Improvement Grants
Thanks to the nice host companions who’ve joined emerge and are internet hosting native in-person teams as they go throgh this system: HOST Worldwide in Brisbane, Desq in Roma, the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre, GC Hub on the Gold Coast, Affect Neighborhood Companies in Bundaberg and the Goondoowindi Neighborhood Hub. Thanks additionally to Sponge for his or her design work on emerge.
The SEWF Roadtrip wouldn’t have occurred with out the help of the Metropolis of Parramatta, Metropolis of Sydney, MinterEllison and Future Tremendous. Thanks additionally to SEWF and White Field for his or her endorsement and enthusiasm for this idea and to Social Change Central for his or her promotional help, The Social Story for social media manufacturing and help and Sourdough Enterprise Pathways for co-hosting an occasion with us in Byron Bay because the Roadtrip got here by means of.
Thanks to Public Curiosity Registry, June Canvan Basis and Fairness Trustees for his or her help of Good Hustle and funding of scholarships which take away the finacial barrier for rising founders to get the assistance they want making their thought occur.
Thanks to Inexperienced Industries SA and Collab4Good for inviting us to be a part of the Heaps Good Hustle Round Economic system Accelerator.
Shout-out to Lucy Brotherton on the Metropolis of Parramatta for being an incredible accomplice not solely with the SEWF Roadtrip but additionally the Parramatch and Pitch for Good Parramatta packages, and to Greg Hodgkinson from First Innovators with whom we beloved collaborating on the Indigenous Crowdfunding Program.
To all of the presenters and audio system at our packages and occasions this 12 months — we’re so grateful in your generosity in sharing your tales, insights and recommendation with our neighborhood.
Thanks additionally to the conferences and packages that invited us to current at your occasions — we’re all the time grateful for the chance to share what we’ve discovered.
And final however most significantly of all, to all of the brave founders who allowed us to be a part of your journey by taking part in our programs, becoming a member of our neighborhood or elevating funds on our platforms — thanks.
It’s an honor to serve you.
We’ve beloved watching members of our neighborhood like Elato Ice-cream, All Of The Good Issues, Xstatic Sunsets, iYarn, CoWork CoPlay, Reconnect Venture, Verge Collaborative, Cinch Textiles and plenty of others proceed to make nice progress and optimistic impression this 12 months.
You’re the hero’s and we’re proud to be part of your journey.
We will’t wait to satisfy extra superb founders growing new impression concepts and assist extra impression initiatives and enterprises increase the funds they should make a distinction in 2023.
Onwards!
However till then, have an important break.
From all of us at StartSomeGood.
