Unlocking your income potential - linking purpose to profit
Access to stable and sustainable funding is often the one critical stressor for not-for-profit organisations. While grants, donations and membership are usually central to funding strategies, there is growing interest among organisations to develop social enterprise activities or switching to a social enterprise model.
In this webinar, Social Traders will explain what a social enterprise is, how not-for-profits can include social enterprise activities and models into their organisational structure, and provide advice on how to unlock your organisation's unique selling proposition to progress purpose and increase income.
Meet the Speakers:
Lauren McAlister | Head of Social Procurement Services | Social Traders
Lauren leads a national team of advisors servicing both certified social enterprise and business and government members. She is dedicated in building the capability of Social Traders members, facilitating relevant connections and delivering training and engagement programs. Lauren brings extensive change management experience, overseeing complex programs of work at a strategic advisory level within the not-for-profit sector. She excels in cultivating and leading collaborative partnerships across government, community, and business to achieve organisational and social impact outcomes.
Georgina Cohen | Head of Certification | Social Traders
Georgina leads the certification team and has the privilege of meeting so many inspirational social entrepreneurs and gain insight into an incredible array of innovative business models. Georgina is passionate in ensuring the certification framework is flexible and robust to be accessible and respond to market needs – validating businesses that are truly operating as social enterprises and delivering lasting impact to their community. She has previously worked in roles as a senior leader and project consultant in business and government focusing on operational improvement and technology transformation, before moving into consulting roles in the not-for-profit sector.
