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What small businesses can learn from the NFP sector
When I founded Share the Dignity three years ago, off the back of an article about homelessness in Australia, it was something I could do with my family and my local community and I could talk to most people face to face if I needed to. Fast forward to 2019 and we now have 4,100 […]
Initiative offers NFPs a hand with digital
A Sydney-based digital marketing agency is giving not-for-profit organisations with limited digital know-how an opportunity to have their campaigns managed at no cost. The #GivingBackToCommunity initiative was launched by Octos in January, this year. According to the agency’s founder and CEO, Nital Shah, NFPs, including Breast Cancer Network Australia, Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, Optometry Giving […]
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Lance Brooks on what SMBs can learn from social enterprise
Small businesses stand to benefit by borrowing from the rulebook of social enterprise and building strategic alliances in their local communities, according to social philanthropist and former Australian Survivor contestant, Lance Brooks. Brooks is the founder and managing director of Brooks Community Consultants (BCC), a grassroots community engagement and social sustainability consultancy. He also founded Communities […]
Time to honour our unsung Aussie business heroes
In the business community many of our celebrations and political rhetoric are centered around the fantastic contribution business owners in Australia make to the overall productivity and success of the economy – and rightly so