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Can ‘For-Profit’ businesses still have a Social Impact? BenchOn’s founder provides answers

‘You can’t make a profit while you are creating social impact, that would be wrong.’ This was a statement made to me by a Year 11 student taking part in an Entrepreneurial Challenge Week, where the students were challenged to develop a social impact business within 5 days. Taken aback, I asked ‘Why?’. The five girls […]

Tim Walmsley · 2 min
Digital

Remote work robot and teen entrepreneur app among winning ideas at Future Makers event

Dynamic Business congratulates the social entrepreneurs who successfully pitched their digital innovations at the inaugural Optus Future Makers Pitch Day, this week, entitling them to share $300,000 in funding. Future Makers was launched by Optus earlier this year to help Australia’s innovators make a positive social impact through the use of technology, with a particular […]

James Harkness · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Crowdfunding platform brings social change

StartSomeGood has partnered with financial services provider ING DIRECT to launch Dreamstarter, a crowdfunding initiative to help boost Australia’s social enterprise sector.

Tasnuva Bindi · 2 min
Advice

The world champion turned social entrepreneur

Layne Beachley didn’t want other driven women to face the same financial hardship she did at the dawn of her surfing career, so the determined seven-time world champion has turned her attention to building her own social enterprise.

Lorna Brett · 2 min