Social Entrepreneurs: Assemble!
Are you called to make a difference?
Are you dedicated to using your entrepreneurial skills, creativity and passion to help create a better future?
Then you’re in the right place!
The StartSomeGood Network is a peer community for those on the social entrepreneurial journey.
Members of the StartSomeGood Network are invited to 2-4 live online events each month, including monthly masterclasses, interviews and fireside chats with the world’s leading social entrepreneurs and practical workshops to help you level-up your skills.
They also have access to an online community of peers, where you can share your news, get feedback and connect with others, and to a range of discounts to help you on your journey.
Joining is just $15 month, or $10 if you are a student, unwaged or from a lower socio-economic country.
INTRODUCING: StartSomeGood Network
StartSomeGood Network (SSGN) is an exclusive community for those committed to changing the World.
Who Is This For?
This is for anyone committed to the journey of changing the world through entrepreneurship. This means you are focused on creating something new, something better than the status quo. It could be a new social enterprise, a breakthrough invention, a community or advocacy group making an impact in a new way or telling stories that need to be told.
We know how hard this is! Since 2011, StartSomeGood has been helping people like you refine their ideas, build their confidence and their capacity, and rally the community and support they need to create change.
If you are:
- Still refining your ideas and preparing your plans to launch something new;
- Working inside an existing organisation trying to push it in a direction of greater innovation;
- In the trenches of an impact business, delivering value to customers and community every day, but aspiring to grow and do more;
- Making an impact as a volunteer or pro bono but you want to do impact work full time and make it sustainable;
- A student studying or simply passionate about social entrepreneurship; or
- Simply looking to learn from inspiring examples of successful social entrepreneurs and connect with other people who share your passions
The StartSomeGood Network is designed for you.
By joining the Network you will:
- Be part of a peer community of changemakers;
- Get to learn from experienced successful social entrepreneurs;
- Have low-cost access to additional training and workshops;
- Get exclusive coaching, mastermind and meditation sessions
- And more.
Ultimately, it’s about helping you find your purpose, sharpen your skills, share your story and make a bigger impact!
If that’s what you’re about, please join us.
What’s Included:
- A community-based peer learning platform where we all connect, share, and grow together;
- Access to all our content library with over 140 interviews with successful Social Entrepreneurial Founders;
- 2 Live Webinar Sessions + Q&A with leading social entrepreneurs each month:
- A monthly mastermind session where you will be able to explore your own enterprise challenges and get feedback;
- Discounted access to all StartSomeGood courses and services, including free access to our Online Crowdfunding Course (usually $50 USD) and half-price access to the Pivot on Purpose course (save $50 USD) and “Early-bird anytime” pricing for our Good Hustle ten-week course (save $250 USD);
- Discounts to a range of relevant courses and opportunities with our partners, such as discounted membership to Social Change Central, Dumbofeather, JBMedia Group, to the Moving Worlds Institute, to co-working spaces, courses, coaching and publications;
- Free or discounted workshops on Crowdfunding, Storytelling, the Social Enterprise Formula and more.
This is for the future makers
Who are creating something new, helping those less fortunate and inspiring a community to embrace your vision of change.
Individually, it’s easy to feel isolated, overwhelmed and to burnt out.
But when we share and learn together, we become stronger and smarter and more capable of creating the change we seek.
The truth is, the journey of social entrepreneurship is challenging.
Creating something new can be a long, hard road. Not everyone will get it. Some might oppose it.
But if you are called to start something that matters it’s important to surround yourself by those who are also on this journey.
That’s what this community is for.
The future doesn't just happen.
We create it.
It's shaped by the actions we take and the decisions we make today.
By the time the future becomes the present, it's too late. This now we inhabit is the product of actions and decisions already taken, by us and by others.
If there's something you don't like about the status quo, you can complain, you can say someone ought to do something about that, or you can start creating that better future.
The range of possibilities ahead of us is vast.
Technology, innovation and growth can lift us up and make so many new things possible.
A more sustainable, equal and just society really is possible.
But it won’t be easy.
But climate change, inequality, misinformation and business-as-usual threaten this vision.
Only by working together can we overcome these barriers to progress.
Making change happen and leading community projects requires a long-term commitment and a lot of resilience and energy to see through. All too often we have seen social entrepreneurs and community leaders burn out or run out of steam due to a lack of progress or a sense of isolation.
We dream of a linear journey towards world-changing success, but the reality is almost always more complicated, convoluted, and complex than that.
To make change in the long run, you need two key things:
- To be constantly learning. Learning from those who have gone before you, learning from other stakeholders and beneficiaries, learning from peers. If you stop learning you stop innovating, which is death in a rapidly-changing world. AND
- To find your peers. Entrepreneurship is stressful. It just is. You’ll fail and fall and need to pick yourself up. But it can be hard to reveal our fears when you’re leading a team and trying to inspire partners, funders, and customers to back you. You need a peer community who get it, because they are living it to.
Who Are We?
The StartSomeGood Network is an initiative of StartSomeGood, an award-winning crowdfunding platform and innovation agency dedicated to increasing the pace of innovation for social change.
We do this by helping social entrepreneurs and community leaders design, test, launch and grow social impact projects.
Our mission is to create a world where “everyone can be a changemaker.”
A world where every person has access to the information, inspiration and tools to make a difference, and where great social change ideas can emerge from anywhere and communities can create the future they seek.
In the pursuit of this mission we have helped over 1,000 projects to raise funding on StartSomeGood, have run over 25 accelerator programs for social enterprises, including programs delivered for partners including Optus, ING, The United Nations Development Program, the Cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Parramatta and more.
Through our Good Hustle social enterprise design program, which has graduated hundreds of early-stage social entrepreneurs so far, we have been teaching the five core building blocks to launch or grow a social enterprise. One of the crucial ones is the Find Your Community module.
We have seen the impact of the exposure the participants get to experienced entrepreneurs in the live Q and A and mastermind sessions, as well as the power of peer-learning, and sharing experiences with others with similar values on a similar trajectory of mission. These learnings have inspired us to want to offer these benefits to social entrepreneurs beyond the Good Hustle program, at a low cost and without a finish point, to support the ongoing journey of creating change we are all on.
Your Hosts:
Tom Dawkins - Co-founder and CEO of StartSomeGood. Tom has founded or co-founded five non-profits and social enterprises and is a globally recognized speaker and leader in the social enterprise sector. Tom will be hosting many of the live Q and A’s.
Nimmity Zappert – StartSomeGood Learning Manager and Founder, All Of The Good Things. Nimmity is the founder of social enterprise All Of The Good Things and the Chair of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand in addition to being Learning Manager at StartSomeGood, where she co-hosts our Good Hustle program.
Cameron Price – StartSomeGood Network Manager and Co-Host. Cameron was the Convenor of the Social Enterprise Community, which has merged to join with the StartSomeGood Network. Cameron has worked with change-makers and social entrepreneurs to evaluate and increase the positive environmental and social impact of programs and for-purpose businesses across five continents. He will run the monthly Mastermind sessions for all members.
Some feedback from Good Hustle participants:
"Inspired with the Business Models session, we analysed over 50 real-world existing business models and landed with one that had real-world precedent, that we could confidently go out and test."
- Matthew Haren, Tablehood
"The storytelling module helped me understand how to tell my story in a way that really highlights why I do what I do. It helped explain my work much more clearly and in a much more engaging way of connecting with people."
- Julia Schneider, Alive With Possibility
"Thanks to the Good Hustle program, I have implemented thorough step by step planning for each idea that has potential, allowing me to estimate what is needed in order to make the idea a reality and what type of data I need to collect to improve on my assumptions."
- Melissa Moxey, Arah Body
"One of the key learning from the program was simply getting clarity on what my idea was. I had so many different ideas I could implement but I needed the direction and guidance to know which one to start with and why."
- Mel Kenny, Made of Substance
