High Potential Impact Enterprises Join The Elevate+ Accelerator Program At Homebase, Logan
Impact Boom and the Homebase team have welcomed a group of 16 diverse impact-led enterprises into the Elevate+ Accelerator Program in Logan.
The enterprises, led by a group of passionate, purpose-led entrepreneurs, are tackling an array of pressing community issues both locally and internationally.
The chosen entrepreneurs stood out in a highly competitive, region-wide application process. They are all working extremely hard to create positive social, environmental and cultural impact and are proving that it’s possible to make money and do good.
Keep your eyes on these inspiring social entrepreneurs as they evolve, develop their projects and maximise their impact.
We'd like to thank Griffith University for proudly supporting Elevate+ at Homebase and Logan City Council for their support, as well as the entire cohort for the hard work and grit they have demonstrated in getting to where they are.
Meet the 2021 Cohort of Impact enterprises
Allknd
ALLKND is an impact-led, Gen Z forward, not for profit advancing knowledge and beliefs about mental ill-health that aid in recognition, management and prevention.
ALLKND’s team of psychologists and communication specialists have used evidence-based research to build our signature classroom incursion and digital program that arms youth with the knowledge and skills required for peer-to-peer mental health first aid support, crisis or not.
They’re on a mission to #saveyounglives by impacting 1 million and 1 young people in Australia and reduce youth mental illness-related fatalities one brave human at a time.
Team - Milly Bannister, Emma Kate, Emma Meldrum
Arise Learning
Arise Learning are building a people-led business which will go down as the biggest Multicultural Learning Academy in Queensland and beyond.
Through their specialised tutoring, mentoring, and diversity and inclusion programs, they envision a future where individuals realise and express their utmost potential through a carefully evaluated and designed personal education pathway.
Their business aims to support the ongoing development of clients, communities and businesses by facilitating programs that aim to overcome cultural and psychosocial barriers.
Founder - Amiel Nubaha, Alice Irakoze
Bee All Natural
Bees are not dying out in Australia, the apiary industry is!
Bee All Natural is building an educational platform to get kids and adults into beekeeping by passing on ethical and sustainable practices. If beekeeping knowledge and experiences are not shared, our bees, agriculture and ecosystems are at even more risk for future generations.
Bee All Natural’s goal is to future-proof the industry and offer life skills to passionate Logan community members.
Co-Founders - Natasha and Jason Roebig
Dreamtime Artistry
Dreamtime artistry is a 100% indigenous company that runs on many levels with its strong purpose to provide a platform for tomorrow's youth to display their amazing talents.
The company platform exists of an online website for sales and marketing, an educational training and workshop section, and a wholesale outlet which sells to tourism outlets. They envisage supplying client specific packages to the corporate world and hiring artwork to businesses.
Co-Founders - Erica Eurell & David Eurell
Ediblescapes
Ediblescapes is a Social Enterprise growing healthy and nutritional food for people to address food insecurity, whilst running community education programs.
Ediblescapes have developed BIOL-SOL, a concentrated ferment bio-fertiliser prepared to nourish, recover, and reactivate life in the soil, to strengthen plant fertility, while acting to stimulate crop protection against insect attack and diseases.
BIOL-SOL is dissolved in water to make liquid bio fertiliser (BIOL).
Founder - Jorge Cantellano
FOlly Games
Folly Games want to make the world more playful. They are an inclusive organisation who design and facilitate active and creative participatory experiences for family audiences. Their mission is Playfulness Everywhere.
There is now generations of research evidencing the importance of play from birth, all throughout childhood and adolescence into adulthood. In communities where play is present, research links to healthier, happier, and more literate individuals functioning in more cohesive communities.
Disengagement from these activities and community groups usually happens around the time of adolescence, which is where Folly Games provides an opportunity for tweens and teens to re-engage.
Played, tested and evaluated with thousands of kids in outdoor festivals over the past ten years, their projects meet tweens and early adolescents exactly at the bridge between childhood play and their deepening adolescent imagination to encourage an uninhibited ability to play into adulthood. It’s sport for the non-sporty, arts for the non-arty, outside in the fresh air and sunshine. All of their programs have a central theme of kids collaborating to create their own worlds. It’s into these worlds they hope participants will invite their adults to join in with them and keep playing too.
Co-Founders - Mandi McIntyre & Tim Monley
Intego Travel
Intego Travel provides innovative and sustainable solutions for tourism businesses, destinations and communities.
They empower their clients to become sustainable leaders, deliver impactful change, and do well by doing good. Their mission is to catalyse the global transition to regenerative tourism by combining the power of research, strategy, education and storytelling to create inclusive, resilient and regenerative visitor economies.
Founder - Vanessa Taveras Dalmau
Logan Local Food Network
The Logan Local Food Network aims to build capacity for a vibrant local food cultures in Logan.
Local food ecosystems address multiple needs that are challenged by Covid-19 restrictions and the loss of jobs that are compounded by pre-existing socio-economic disadvantages and the ongoing impacts of severe weather events.
Networked communities are better able to connect with a variety of solutions to meet basic needs and maintain continuity such as feeding families, creating jobs and conserving our natural environment.
Logan’s Local Food Network works with local groups and organisations to improve access to local, fresh food. By being connected we enhance continuity for everyday living, income generation and give hope for a brighter food future.
Founder - Dr. Kimberly Reis
MATE Bystander
Griffith University's MATE Bystander Program is an education program focused on the bystander in the prevention of violence, abuse and discrimination. Together, they partner with their clients across Australia and New Zealand and invite their community to step into their own leadership and become effective bystanders.
The MATE Bystander training provides participants with the knowledge and skills to #besomeonewhodoessomething to prevent violence and create safe, equal, and inclusive environments for all people.
Team - Nicole Hunter, Anoushka Dowling, Shaan Ross-Smith, Kirsty Tschirpig
MyStorehouse
Food insecurity is a worldwide problem. MyStorehouse was created to meet this problem head on. MyStorehouse is a revolutionary, innovative, sustainable and commercially viable Social Enterprise.
From as little as $20 per week over a 12-month period they fill their storehouses with their customer’s Everyday Essential Living Packs. These packs contain everything necessary to support an average family for a minimum of 10-12 weeks.
MyStorehouse store these packs for their customers until the time of need when they then deliver direct to their customers.
Their target market is marginalised groups within the community. MyStorehouse seek to provide opportunities for all to be empowered and enabled regardless of circumstance.
MyStorehouse is committed to building Strong Self Reliant communities.
Team - Dion Meha, Stephanie Watson
Noakes Impact Investment
Noakes Impact Investment (NII) is a non-profit impact investor that provides small, low-cost loans to Australian social enterprises, in addition to pro-bono financial modelling services.
70-90% of the 20,000+ social enterprises in Australia are not only too small for mainstream capital but have also grown beyond the point where the average grant is sufficient. These enterprises have a high chance of failure simply because they exist within this gap, regardless of their profitable business models or highly successful social impact initiatives. NII provides flexible, low-cost debt with high amounts of additionality to these social enterprises, who are otherwise burdened with inflexible debt repayments or mismatched funding terms.
Founder – Tanner Noakes
Pacifika Young Peoples Wellbeing Network (PYPWN)
PYPWN’s mission is to invest in the well-being of Pasifika Communities through evidence-based research, evaluation, and leadership training. The Pasifika community is a growing population in Australia with very limited data to support wellbeing outcomes.
PYPWN uses Pacific worldviews and peer Researchers who are young Pasifika people to better engage with Pasifika Communities in Australia. They undertake research through meaningful and creative projects with young people to develop evidence-based solutions and responses to meet the expressed and unexpressed needs of young Pasifika peoples themselves. They take a strengths-based approach and aim to deliver their findings to service providers and communities to create more opportunities for young Pasifika people.
Their overall vision is to see flourishing Pasifika communities in Australia.
Team - Sarai Tafa, Joanne Durham
The Aspire Project
The Aspire Project is an employment focussed social enterprise which will directly support, train and employ Logan community members who experience barriers in accessing training, education and employment.
Through a community café, art and creative social space they hope to increase community education, economic and social participation to create a connected and flourishing community. They envision that the space will evolve to have capacity for social and health services, thus increasing community access in safe welcoming and a community-based space.
They imagine that their project will evolve into a local gateway that cultivates social connections and potentially access to health services in the future.
Team - Kylie Jackson, Kim wright, Ron Mitchell
The Dignity Project
The Dignity Project is a research and community building platform aimed at disrupting stereotypes and breaking through barriers that people with disability experience every day.
The Dignity Project will help us learn through stories that might otherwise remain unheard. Through stories, we can illuminate future possibilities, but also pathways that should never again be travelled.
Sitting at the intersection of human experience of disability and science, the Dignity Project uses a digital engagement and analysis platform, where people with disabilities can share, reinterpret, and analyse their collective experiences. The platform allows citizens and researchers to co-design service and system innovations for the future.
Team - Prof. Elizabeth Kendall, Carolyn Ehrlich, Kelsey Chapman
Urban Edible
Urban Edible converts underutilised land into thriving market gardens and urban farms across South East Queensland.
Its vision is to transform suburbs, cities and towns into places where local food is abundant, affordable and celebrated.
The way in which we currently grow, distribute and consume food is having a devastating impact on both our own health and our planet's health.
One way that we can significantly address many of these issues, is to grow more food close to where the majority of people live.
The purpose of Urban Edible is to facilitate this through accessing underutilised land (both indoors and outdoor) and support farmers to establish either market gardens or more technological focused enterprises on them.
Founder - Kylie Newberry
Whirl
Whirl digital platform empowers its customers to build confidence in clean technologies (starting with electric cars and their chargers), supporting you in as you learn what you need to know to get ready to buy.
Clean energy technologies are most impactful when they form an eco-system (e.g. solar and electric car, etc). However, they are sold separately and the process for home-owners to acquire them piece by piece is complex, stressful and poorly designed. Creating a digital end-to-end model for consumers alleviates the “piecing it together” in a way that works for the customer, and also accelerates sustainability goals.
