Key Highlights & Insights From Speakers & Delegates At The Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 In Addis Ababa

What happens when 1200 social entrepreneurs from 67 countries come together to advance the global social enterprise movement? During the Social Enterprise World Forum, as proud media partners, Impact Boom interviewed over 40 people to hear their key highlights and takeaways in an effort to advance the conversation beyond the forum.

In its eleventh year, the Social Enterprise World Forum didn’t disappoint. It’s important to note the huge effort of the British Council team, the entire SEWF CIC Board, as well as team members Joanne Seagrave and Helen Harvey, in making it a success.

The week produced a hive of exciting activity, with urban and rural tours, an academic and education symposium, policy forum, youth week and fun cultural evenings. It was an exciting time for Ethiopia, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize just a week before the forum.

Some of the key themes to emerge from our interviews and conversations during the forum included:

The strength of medemer (synergy) amongst global social enterprise practitioners when meeting at this scale. The forum shows what’s possible when people come together to collaborate and connect, but there’s work to be done to strengthen the global movement. It’s paramount that we continue to support one another and combine efforts globally. As Claire Carpenter points out, ‘business and personal development does take time’ and whilst we need to create the space for that, we also need to act with urgency.
The importance of continuing to build and strengthen the global network, which needs to happen in parallel with strong local movements and networks providing a solid foundation to tackle inequality.
The need to listen to communities, as they know best. So much can be learnt from Indigenous knowledge and ways of being.
The urgency to bring others with us on this journey. Amongst the movement of movements seeking to address deep social, cultural and environmental issues, we need to break down the silos and understand that to do this at meaningful scale, we need collective impact. Strong storytelling, finding common language and creating a stronger brand and awareness as a movement are critical.
Remaining mindful of the environmental impact when gathering at forums of this size, as well as working to scale events like these to a much larger audience, with digital tools providing strong opportunities moving forward.

Personally, I drew great energy from the amazing collection of people leading the global movement and have returned to Australia recharged and with fresh knowledge. There is a sense of urgency to the work we’re doing at Impact Boom and we’re grateful to be part of a supportive global community.

This year’s forum drew to a close with an energetic handover and celebration, with the great news being that the forum will be hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2020. We’ll most certainly look forward to seeing you there.

42 speakers and delegates from around the globe share their key highlights from the 2019 Social Enterprise World Forum.

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Highlights from the interviews (listen to the podcast for full details)

A huge thank you to the wonderful Impact Boom team who were on the ground: Carlie Daly, Nikoline Arns and Davinia Vella provided strong team support during the week.

Pete Dowson, Digital Storytellers

For me, the number one takeaway from Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is how a single word can become a story with the power to energise an entire nation.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali managed to unite Ethiopia after decades of separatism, war and genocide using a single word medemer, which means ‘synergy’ in Amharic.

This concept encompasses values such as tolerance, forgiveness and instils a sense of civic pride across the entire majority of the population. Now I know why Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel peace prize and I'll draw inspiration from his commitment to peaceful democratic process in the face of seriously entrenched opposition. I'll always remember that a single word can become a powerful story for positive change.

Amber O'Connell, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, State Government of Victoria

Besides the unparalleled Ethiopian hospitality, the key highlight of the Social Enterprise World Forum for me was simply being part of the incredible Australian delegation. How the Aussies represented and contributed to the forum makes me really proud. We're already doing so many amazing things and the connections made at the forum and sharing those experiences will let me amplify that, both at home and and across the globe.

My key insight from the forum is is that we're part of a global movement. We're not change makers acting alone. We're part of something much bigger. There's no competition. There are no borders. We're all striving for a more sustainable inclusive society and a new economy to enable and support that vision and only together does that idea truly become possible. We're sharing, we're connecting, we're collaborating, we're challenging and above all we're acting and that's going to last well beyond the week in Ethiopia.

Adelaide Sheik, University of Johannesburg

I'm an academic and I love social entrepreneurship. Trying to get that entrenched in the university curricula, what I take away from the conference here is that we're also learning, but we're all excited.

I think if we combine our efforts, we will be able to shift something in terms of social challenges, social skills.

I think that this conference is beautiful because we're like-minded people, slightly or sometimes crazy, but lovely people. I've met people from across continents and it really brings us together, this common purpose to do good and do well.

Urban tour stop off for lunch at Temsalet Kitchen.

Fetih Asrat, Temsalet Kitchen

The biggest takeaway from the Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 is we have to support each other. They're so fast and the social enterprise are not many and we're striving to stay in business and do all those social activities.

So we have to stay together and support each other and make the best of everything we have.

Gladys Akyere Rockson, Rockson Foundation

I’m from Ghana and I'm so happy to be here because I got to network. I got to learn a lot from social enterprises and I love everybody I've met here. I think I've actually built a good family and I've been part of it.

Tony Fox, #MakingItHappen.

It's those chats, those talks, those dances in between the conference, all those little things that go towards creating this energy and this momentum that basically says that we are on the right path to creating a better world for everyone.

I guess the takeaway is that it's not where you are, although it was amazing; it's who you're with, and the people were amazing.

Elebethel Tessema, felek Notebooks

What I liked best about the forum is how we got to network and see out of our horizon and meet other people and try to push the conversation just a bit farther.

Tom Dawkins, StartSomeGood

For me the highlight was just meeting social entrepreneurs from all around the world and in particular from Africa. I think social entrepreneurs from Africa have a particularly inspirational approach to overcoming some really profound challenges in their communities. In particular, I'm thinking of a couple of social entrepreneurs from Rwanda that I spent time with who have a life story that's just beyond anything I've ever heard before. Orphaned by the genocide, cycling through different foster families and yet they're so proud of their country, so positive, so switched on, so optimistic and so hardworking to create a better future for their community. It was the same with the entrepreneurs I met from Somalia, from Ethiopia, from other parts of the continent and that was a new experience for me, and a profound experience to learn about these other life stories and of course puts my own challenges in real perspective.

Social entrepreneurship is really hard, but it also reminded me that I have incredible privileges being here in Australia and that despite the fact that I might periodically criticise government, philanthropy and others for the lack of support for the sector and where I think they could be doing more or better, we're very fortunate in the support that we have and the growing movement that we're building here locally. I think not just from institutional players but particularly from each other.

One of the highlights of the Social Enterprise World Forum was that sense of community and that sense of peer support that social entrepreneurs from all around the world always have when they get together.

That's what I'll treasure. That's what I remember and that's why I'm determined to go to future Social Enterprise World Forums.

Jen Baughan, Solutions For The Planet

My name is Jen Baughan and I am the CEO of Solutions For The Planet. We're a UK based social enterprise running a sustainability focused enterprise program in high schools across the UK. The conference so far has been networking with other small social enterprises working in education with young people internationally, and finding ways of us connecting directly, sharing our knowledge experiences. There's a lot of shared challenges that we all experience and having this opportunity for everyone to come together, network, chat to each other.

It's the informal sessions, as much as the formal sessions, that we can get so much value out of.

So it's been a fantastic opportunity.

Kim Lim, PichaEats

We’ve met a lot of like-minded social entrepreneurs because we always feel lonely and having people from all around the world having the same mindset, it really encourages us in telling ourselves that what we're doing is probably on the right track.

Peter Brown, British Council

For me, it's the connectivity. It's the connections that are being made here. The conversations that are being had, the passion that is evident everywhere in everything.

Everything everyone is saying. It's just fantastic to see the globe coming together with one thing in mind, social purpose, social impact. It's fantastic.

Claire Carpenter, Melting Pot

My biggest takeaway from this forum, other than it's wonderful to reconnect with good people, I really love the people that you meet here and find other people very value-orientated, making stuff happen. It's always lovely. Then you build up that network year after year.

It cements my perspective that business development, as well as personal development takes time.

Relationships take time and you come back year after you and you strengthen those relationships and other people, "oh actually, we could do something together," or "there's somebody I want to introduce you to." We're building a web like the brain. We're building a web of connections and some of those neuro-pathways between people get strengthened and some are new ones that are formed just on the new connections that are made. Together we're creating that worldwide web of social impact and that's really exciting… and just nice people. It's fun. It's all good. It's lovely here. The weather's perfect. More nice warm places in November please, or end of October!

Bianca Stawiarski, Warida Wholistic Wellness

For me, the highlight of the Social Enterprise World Forum this year was seeing the diversity of social enterprises, not only across Australia, but also globally, that there are so many amazing, passionate people creating real change in the world. It was very inspiring.

My key insight was that a simple chance meeting or a yarn over a cuppa has the very real potential to change people's experiences on a local, national, and global scale.

That passionate people not only create positive change but almost draw that energy in. I was honoured to be amongst that creative space.

Belinda Morrissey, English Family Foundation

For me, the highlights of the Social Enterprise World Forum are just too many to list in a minute. One of the key highlights was around the fact that the forum was held in an emerging country like Ethiopia. That of itself was an amazing experience and being amongst 70 other countries and their delegates and learning and listening and talking was phenomenal. The collegiality amongst the Australian delegates was second to none and I know that deep, deep partnerships have been established, which is so inspirational.

I think the three key takeouts for me was the sense of urgency; that we are running out of time. We need to get onto this now. The sense of synergy and collaboration, that we can't do this alone, we need to do it together, and the power of storytelling.

These three components together really stayed with me long after the forum was finished.

Susanna Bevilacqua, Moral Fairground

This is the first time I attended the Social Enterprise World Forum and the highlight for me was a confirmation that collaboration is key in succeeding as a social enterprise, no matter where you are in the world and what you do.

Yet it is the hardest thing to do as it involves letting go of our ego and the concept of ownership. It requires for us to change our mindset about how we measure success. We need to change from a competitive model to a collaborative model of doing business. The other highlight was the opportunity to feel part of a global movement. This collectively is changing lives, building communities and growing prosperity.

Gerry Higgins, SEWF

The biggest takeaway from the forum for me would probably be the energy that being in Ethiopia has brought to the forum, the contribution of delegates. The networking has been absolutely outstanding. Obviously we look at it true as an organiser; we've got a lot of lenses on this forum, technical and everything. How is the delegate experience?

At this stage with a half a day to go, our perspective is that the delegate experience has been outstanding because it's the largest number of countries represented. Therefore, the conversations are the most diverse conversations that we've ever had.

Chineyenwa Okoro Onu, Waste or Create Hub

I am the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Waste or Create Hub. What we do is in environmental innovation, a space that educates people in creative ways to transform waste into new products and services. The program entirely has been very inspiring, very motivating. So much information and insight. I feel like we need to have more of this where people can share information freely without panicking about, "Oh, who's going to do this? Who's going to do that?" It feels like a whole open source centre. People are very like, Oh, what do you need? How can I support you?" That's what we need to drive social enterprise in not just Africa but the rest of the world.

Queensland social entrepreneurs Tom Allen, Luke Terry & Emma-Kate Rose.

Emma-Kate Rose, Food Connect & QSEC

Personally for me, the highlights from the Social Enterprise World Forum was being able to pitch alongside Tom Allen and Luke Terry and to be able to meet the the full board. Of course being able to present on the stage at a full plenary on food systems, which is my number one big passion. My other highlight, is just being able to hang with all my Aussie friends, being able to form deeper relationships with our interstate brothers and sisters. It's just been an amazing experience.

I guess the big insight that I got from the forum was that networks can be a connection to be taken global.

So really looking forward to having that conversation with, fellow social entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Africa, and beyond to really ramp up grassroots organising in this space.

Mikey Leung, Digital Storytellers

For me, the highlight of Social Enterprise World Forum was learning about the importance of networks. The world forum is the biggest, baddest network that we as social entrepreneurs have and can be a part of. For a few precious days after the forum itself, I got to meet some of the forum leaders who have been working for over a decade, or in some cases individually decades to build the network and collaborations that exist in the social enterprise sector.

With these networks, we can collaborate more strongly, we can advocate for what we need, we can have a better and stronger social enterprise brand and name in the world and together we're stronger and more powerful in creating change.

It's great to be a part of that at the forum and no doubt I would recommend that to anybody who's looking to grow or learn or lean into social enterprise.

Matt Davis, Bradley Heslop, Amma Lartey, Ahmed Smiley, Luke Terry during the ‘Models for Growth’ panel.

Sharon Zivkovic, Community Capacity Builders & Wicked Lab.

A Social Enterprise World Forum highlight for me came from the members of the Connecting Education to Communities panel during the academic and education symposium. The panel members discussed the need for social entrepreneurship programs to take a systems approach. Community Capacity Builders has recently redesigned its program to take a systems approach, so that was very reassuring to hear from the panel. A key insight for me came during the Social Enterprise Network session that Cinnamon Evans, the chair of SENVIC chaired. There were three participants on the panel that were supporting networks in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sri Lanka. I asked the question, "What opportunity is there to establish a global network of social enterprise networks?" during that session.

The panel members were all very keen to establish a global network once we had strengthened the social enterprise networks in our own countries.

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Helene Malandain, Ākina Foundation & SEWF

I’m from the Ākina Foundation in New Zealand and am Chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum board.

My biggest takeaway so far is that we really have to make sure that we listen to the communities, because it's not a question of reinventing the way we work together and we do business.

It's really about understanding what wellbeing looks like to them because they know best.

Avis Mulhall, UNDP in Somalia.

The biggest takeaway from this particular SEWF conference was how important it is to consider traditional ways of living and being when we're looking to the future and how we can actually create such a more beautiful future together when we marry our technologies with Indigenous ways of being.

Kat Dunn, Grameen Australia

My key highlight or insight from the Social Enterprise World Forum was around entrepreneurial income generation solutions of refugees and migrants.

The entrepreneurial refugee network in the UK said that 70 million people are forcibly displaced globally, but host societies are failing to include these people. So these displaced migrants are solving the problems by themselves.

Twenty percent of this community are starting their own businesses and the ones that become viable, they employ up to six people; yet only 1% of government investment is going towards supporting these businesses. I think that is a key opportunity, not just for the European and African countries, but for Australia as well to invest in migrants and refugees to create employment opportunities.

Shayamoli Mazumder, Organisation For Women's Development

I came from Bangladesh. Our organisation name is Organisation For Women's Development in Bangladesh. We’ve done some social service work now for last four years. We are doing social entrepreneurship as well with 600 rural agriculture based women. I came here with a question that if social entrepreneurs are profit-making organisations like corporate houses, how can the grassroots women come out from the poverty circle?

I offered a question to the social investment panelists as to whether it is possible to make a system where the profit from social entrepreneurship could be distributed to the grassroots women, by those women who are working for social entrepreneurship? Like a cooperative society, everyone could share the social entrepreneur’s profit.

They could have a bank account after one year when we count the profit and loss, then some profit could go to also their account so they can scale off from the poverty circle. Otherwise social entrepreneurs will be a false thing like the current system. It will be a simply a false thing, like a corporate house. Only personal profit making, not for the actual poor people, especially for women. So from Bangladesh, please do something for the poor women, those that stay in the poverty cycle, in the name of social entrepreneurship, don't exploit them. Thank you so much.

Chogazen InDaba, Detele Foundation

I am from Johannesburg, South Africa, and I'm the Founder and the Director of Detele Foundation, which is a organisation that works with young women and girls to help them build resilience. I love the culture here. I love the differences and the sharing of information and skills and how we can move forward in getting our businesses up and together and most especially for us who are grassroots. The ideas of how we pull ourselves up and try and have a creative business mind instead of thinking of ourselves as charities. So I'm really excited. It has been very, very fruitful and I look forward to next year.

Stephen Johnson, British Council

From this year, I think there’s a real movement, especially in this region of the world, for a social enterprise sector and a social economy and I'm really looking forward to seeing it develop in the next five to 10 years.

Raising awareness, changing mindsets panel. (L-r) Tim West, Amy Lim, Eden Berhane, Tom Allen.

John Kay, Buy Social Canada

I'm a co-founder of Buy Social Canada, which is a social enterprise certifier in Canada. My biggest takeaway is that despite the tremendous sense of doom and despair that we often feel in the world today, social enterprise presents a tremendous model for optimism and hope for a better world, and for the kind of change that we actually want to see. So I really strongly believe that despite nationalism and inequality, we have a model that can change that and change it rapidly.

Carolina Zishiri, Inclusive Business Action Network

The best thing about this year's Social Enterprise World Forum was that people are so open. We had so inspiring discussions at our stand, at the exhibition. I think it is just great to exchange with people about their business models, how they're seeing certain things and then also to see how we are fitting into their needs. Also, it is great if you can direct them to resources and to other organisations that provide support to social enterprises.

Stopping off at Tebita Ambulance during the urban tour.

Kibret Abebe, TEbita Ambulance

My name is Kibret Abebe, I'm the founder of the first private ambulance service system in Ethiopia. I'm the President of Social Enterprise Ethiopia. I'm on two panels. One of the panels is social enterprise and the planet. So one of the questions that was raised was, "At the end of the day, what do you think the corporates think about social enterprise?" I have never thought of this. Living on this planet, whether we are corporates or ordinary citizens, we need to really critically think that we are living in this planet. You don't have to care about which category we are from. Protecting this planet should be a responsibility for all of us. So it may be a competition or if social enterprise gets stronger, corporates may lose their market. This should be balanced. I don't want anybody to lose his market. And at the same time I want to protect the planet.

There has to be a room in which we can talk about it. I try to tend to my panellists that I was working in a hospital. Most of my colleagues were not in position to consider cost whenever they are doing something for the patient. So not considering the cost, not considering the environment has a cost. Everybody's trying to defend that. We are dealing with human life. We are very cautious about what we are doing. Who cares about the cost? We invest unnecessarily to the patient that is just taking the treatment. We are kidding another thousand of patients by investing but we don't have to invest. When I was in the patient's care, the government stopped aid, like the anaesthesia machine to the operation theatre, and they're asking us to start a job without having a half a day training. We consider that this is costless. Nobody paid for this.

We need to be sure that somebody paid for this and we need to to be very cautious about what is going on. This education should have been the medical education. Cost is very important parameter for the future. He needs to know what he's doing because nothing has been changed. So this is the way in which, we need to be very articulate whenever we think about social enterprises, what the government thinks about us, what the corporate levels think, what the politicians think about it. This is the takeaway. We need to have a bigger brain, not totally peculiarly solving that the social enterprise that I'm working with, I'm running a private ambulance service system called Tebita Ethiopia. It doesn't mean that I'm really focused there whenever I think about social enterprises. I have to have a bigger brain. However, very effective, efficient, my job is, I let in other ways the entire ecosystem is working to the same agenda of protecting the planet, giving efficient service for people. We need to collectively tick. These type of thoughts should be there in my opinion and this is my takeaway.

Golada Sosa, Social Enterprise Ethiopia

I've been inspired. I've been challenged to rethink metrics and to rethink or find mutual languages between maybe corporate and a social enterprise for ownership and I met lovely people. I'm excited.

Zoe Chan, PuYu Horticulture Therapy Services

I come from Hong Kong and my startup is PuYu Horticultural Therapists Services. We are serving the elderly. For me, I'm quite impressed by the seminar talking about partnerships with different big corporates. Because for me, I'm a start up and I'm really looking for collaboration with a big corporation and I just started working on it. So it was a really radical experience shared by the speakers, so I learnt something from them.

Mike Curtin shares his experience during the plenary on food systems.

Josiah Lockhart, Firstport, Scotland.

My biggest takeaway from the forum this year is how we're still having a lot of the same conversations, but realising that the solutions we thought were right may not be right and we have to start evolving what they are. There's a lot of conversations going around about the new face of this, the new face of that, or what does this mean in the new context and I think being in Ethiopia, I get to see a completely different perspective, but I think we're now left with more questions than answers from this year, which just might be a good thing.

Donnie Maclurcan, Post Growth Institute.

My highlight from the Social Enterprise World Forum was learning about Clark's not-for-profit Ethiopian shoe company, the puncture resistant shoes they're developing with Soul of Africa that employs a hundred workers, plus I think 80 more in the supply chain, with those workers being employed at four times the average national industry wage. They were looking set to have manufactured 95,000 shoes this year using locally sourced materials with profits having already supported the access to education for nearly 18,000 children. That just blew me away. The takeaway as well from it all was that it feels like there's still a lot of conversation that needs to happen around the importance in my mind of the distinction between not-for-profit and for-profit social enterprise. Lots of assumptions built into the conversations that need unpacking.

Zahara Kauffman, Felek Notebooks

We just started. We're so inspired to do more. We want to do more because we have only been around for four years. So for us we're babies. That's what I took away from this, that we want to do more and we're excited about that. Thank you.

Bruktawit Tigabu, Whiz Kids Workshop

Diversity [is the word which sums up SEWF 2019].

The Queensland delegation during an event with Australian Ambassador Peter Doyle.

Jemima Welsh, ImpaQt

I particularly enjoyed the youth week at the Social Enterprise World Forum.

I learned that young people from all over the world have a passion for social change, that access to finance is a really common concern and that we need to be talking more about sustainability of social enterprise business models.

All in all, it was a fantastic experience and I'm so glad to have been there.

Peter Holbrook, SEUK & SEWF

I think we have to think much, much more further about how we can share the messages and the content to a much wider audience than the 1200, 1500 people that are here and actually how we really address the kind of the waste that this conference generates, be that through carbon, be that through plastic bottles, be that through food waste. We are getting better. But for me, just to see the amount of plastic waste that we're generating doesn't sit well. I just think that's an agenda that I really want to take away and drive forwards beyond Ethiopia. It's been an amazing opportunity to meet some of the most outstanding social entrepreneurs I've ever come across.

The Australian delegation contained 63 participants.

David Brookes, Social Traders & SEWF

The key highlight for me was the strong vindication and affirmation of the board's decision taken a couple of years ago, to hold a forum in Ethiopia with over 1200 people coming together from 67 countries around the world at the very impressive UN Economic Commission of Africa.

There is no doubt in my mind that SEWF 2019 has already and will continue to provide a positive legacy for the development and growth of social enterprise in the city of Addis Ababa, the country of Ethiopia and the African continent. I do feel very privileged to be closely involved in SEWF over the last 10 years in contributing to a primary objective of building a bigger, stronger, and more visible social enterprise movement, and we certainly took a further stride in this direction over the nine days of intense social enterprise activity, including the education symposium, policy forum, conference and exhibitions and study tours.

I was particularly impressed by the policy forum discussions covering social enterprise ecosystem, building market development, and creating enabling environments. Having over 60 Australian colleagues at SEWF 2019, the third largest delegation behind Ethiopia and the UK was a big highlight for me, many of whom had key speaking and session facilitation roles; top Aussie talent making their mark on the international stage on the other side of the world.

I also acknowledge the leadership role that Tom Allen and Belinda Morrissey are playing in supporting the Australian social enterprise sector and their initiative with the Australian SEWF bursary fund that Social Traders was pleased to support. And finally, I give a big hats off to Mikey Leung and the team at Digital Storytellers for the wonderful capture of SEWF 2019. Bring on 2020 in Halifax, Canada.

Lauren Sears, Common Good Solutions

[I learnt] that we have a big job to do to make sure we do as good a job as Ethiopia did with 2019. It's really important. I really think the biggest thing I took away from this forum that reinforced what I learned last year is that we might be worlds apart, but we really all share the same sentiment and have the same challenges. We're all open sharing with each other. That's what's really exciting and what I'm taking home with me.

Bradley Daye

I'm from Canada and this Social Enterprise World Forum in Ethiopia has been incredible. I've met a tonne of awesome people. My favourite part of the whole thing was the debate about whether we should stay small in social enterprise or whether we should scale up. It was very powerful. The moderator was incredible, very passionate, lots of great points made. I'm going to continue to scale, so I guess I sided with that side of the debate. It's been great meeting people and we're excited about Canada for next year.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada announced as the SEWF 2020 host.

Joseph Huyer

We will be hosting the Social Enterprise World Forum 2020 from September 23rd to the 25th. Come and join us and have a lot of fun on the East coast of Canada.

Within Australia, Impact Boom remains committed to helping drive and support a conversation and action around a national social enterprise strategy, and building on conversations which took place at the forum.

Globally, Impact Boom will continue to raise awareness, build networks, and provide the critical support that our social entrepreneurs need.

I’d like to thank the Yunus Social Business Centre, Griffith University for their support in my role as Fellow. I’d also like to thank fellow Board Members and friends at the Queensland Social Enterprise Council, Logan Social Enterprise Network, Sunshine Coast Social Enterprise Network, ImpaQt and the amazing alumni from our Elevate+ Social Enterprise Accelerator Program, supported by Brisbane City Council. I’d like to acknowledge the support of the Queensland Government, and look forward to strengthening the ecosystem across the state. The English Family Foundation has provided strong support for which I’m very grateful.

I’d also like to thank Brisbane Marketing and Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre for their ongoing assistance in sector development.

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