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Social Enterprise Toolbox | Online Incubation Program
Take the first steps into starting a social enterprise at your own pace with our completely online version of the materials through our Social Enterprise Toolbox. With the ability of moving at your pace online, you can pick up everything you need when it suits you to start your own social enterprise in Tasmania, underpinned by the experience of everything delivered through The Shift Lab that has seen over 65 new social enterprises start around Tasmania.
The Social Enterprise Toolbox is specially designed designed for;
- New Social Enterprises to take steps ahead with confidence and clarity, through learning about key concepts including framing a problem, building your own marketing materials, software to help as well as everything offered in the in person program.
- Community Organisations that are exploring social enterprise opportunities, as the resources are designed in a way that you then take your board, management team or key volunteers through the process of creating your own social enterprise.
The Social Enterprise Toolbox provides a ‘choose your own adventure’ style exploration of starting a social enterprise, including;
- Almost 50 short video workshops that outline key principles and skills that you will need on the journey, supported by links and editable templates.
- The ability to add on one-on-one mentoring sessions to the resources, allowing you to get individual support and coaching through the process.
Driven by award winning entrepreneur Adam Mostogl of illuminate Education Australia and The van Diemen Project and developed with the support of the Tasmanian Government through the Department of State Growth, the Social Enterprise Toolbox is built firstly on experience, getting ideas launched, recognising what it takes to get a business going in Tasmania and making sure impact is at the core of what you do.
If you have been dreaming of having a crack at launching a new idea that isn’t about making a lot of money for yourself but in fact about positive impact on our community – be it environmental, cultural, social or economic – then the Social Enterprise Toolbox is the ideal place to build and start on your schedule.
What’s Involved?
While the Social Enterprise Toolbox is a self-paced program, we’ve broken all of the content to help you on your social enterprise journey into ten sections around similar topics that you need to progress at key stages;
- Social Enterprise Essentials, where we introduce the key principles and framing the cause,
- The Market, where we build in research around the problem and possible supporters,
- Starting Strong, where we start talking about the new enterprise and elements to start,
- Finances, building skills about managing money and cashflow, as well as managing budgets,
- Marketing, focusing the strategy on creating connections with audiences with ethics,
- Impact Driven, where we talk about telling your impact story and what you actually count,
- A grab bag around compliance, digital security, employment basics and wellbeing.
- Testing, where we look to make sure the enterprise does what is planned and customers want it,
- Communications, building skills to share about our enterprises and how to present them,
- Time to Launch, where as a final stage we talk about finding the first customers and launching.
Why Start With Us?
There are plenty of reasons to take the idea you’ve been dreaming about and bringing it into an incubator like the Social Enterprise Toolbox, including;
- Local Expertise: We know the Tasmanian small business community, are passionate about social enterprises and are here to share our insights with you.
- Practical Guidance: Our resources are not just developed to make you write a lengthy document – they are an actionable roadmap to help you make real and measurable progress.
- Community Connection: Join our growing community of like-minded innovators and change-makers, as well as accessing our collective networks to help you take that next big leap.
- Inspiration & Encouragement: Take the first steps with support and regular check-ins, rather than doing it on your own!
… and so much more! Don’t take the leap on your own as take the first steps towards creating long term change.
About Adam Mostogl
2024 Australia’s Most Influential Educators
2023 Australia’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs & Executives
2018 Finalist, ProBono Australia’s Impact 25
2015 Finalist, Young Australian of the Year
In any given week, Adam Mostogl might be helping entrepreneurs to kick-start their business ideas, stimulating small businesses to challenge the status quo, challenging communities to understand their potential or teaching hundreds of students to embrace innovation to solve the problems of the future.
Adam is the Founder / Inspirer at illuminate Education Australia, inspiring over 20,000 students to address the largest challenges they see in their communities, as well as the CEO & Chief Entrepreneur of The van Diemen Project, where he has mentored and advised over 1200 people on their business journey – and proudly the driving force behind The Shift Lab | Tasmania’s First Social Impact Incubator.
With international experience through global innovation processes like UNLEASH and learning from his global connections alongside his passion for impact and driving change in Tasmania, Adam is excited to keep investing in others through The Shift Lab.
Expression of Interest | Social Enterprise Toolbox
The following form will take around five to ten minutes to complete. It asks about your work and life experience, the cause you care about and what you think could help drive change through being a social enterprise. Please keep within the word limits outlined.
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