This is a funder members only event.

When

Thursday 25 July 2024 

12pm - 1.00pm AEST (ACT, NSW, QLD, VIC)

11:30am – 12:30pm ACST (NT, SA)

10am – 11:00am AWST (WA) 

Virtual event only

Zoom link to be shared closer to the time. 

Overview

How social enterprises are scaling impact through partnerships

Are you interested in learning about different approaches to supporting social enterprises to scale their impact?  

Scaling through investing in the growth of individual social enterprises to reach more beneficiaries is one approach. Another approach is scaling through collaboration and sharing best practice models. 

In the session, we will hear from two social enterprises who are scaling impact through sharing their IP as well as the perspective of a social enterprise funder supporting these broader scaling approaches:

• Paul Brown – CEO & Co-founder, Jigsaw Australia
• Jenny Briscoe-Hough – CEO, Tender Funerals Australia
• Claire Mannion – Foundation Manager, Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

Please come prepared to join in the conversation, connect with your fellow funders, and discuss and reflect on the session together.

Note

• This is a virtual session only.
• Presenters will share their thoughts and views in conversation but will not offer any financial advice.

Audience

This event is intended for the Social Enterprise Funders Group members. 

We welcome other Philanthropy Australia funder members at the 'Active', 'Engaged', 'Impact membership, or New Gen tier to join the funders group. 

If you are already a funder member of Philanthropy Australia, sign up with this funders group by contacting programs@philanthropy.org.au.

Not yet a Philanthropy Australia member? Do you want to learn more about the philanthropic work in this area? Please email membership@philanthropy.org.au. 

Presenters

Paul Brown – CEO & Co-founder Jigsaw Australia
Paul co-founded Jigsaw, a successful social enterprise that trains and transitions people with disability into open employment. Since Jigsaw began in 2014, Paul’s leadership has seen it grow from one customer and two employees with disability to a national, multi-site business with over 100 clients, on track to creating 1000 traineeships and 600 jobs. Paul believes firmly in the power of social enterprise to create impact and outperform current approaches to disability employment.

Jenny Briscoe-Hough – CEO Tender Funerals Australia

Jenny is the driving force behind Tender Funerals. She has decades of experience in community development and believes in a strengths-based approach. Jenny has a reputation for innovation and developing projects that support and empower communities to create a culture of help rather than harm. Tender Funerals is the result of a community believing that funerals should be affordable, meaningful and ultimately as much as possible healing. Tender Funerals Australia was called into being by the many communities that reached out to have a Tender Funerals in their area and Jenny is proud to be a part of the team that is answering their call.

Claire Mannion – Foundation Manager, Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

Claire is the Foundation Manager at the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation (VFFF). Prior to joining VFFF in 2020, Claire’s career spanned management consulting, the not-for-profit sector and most recently, corporate philanthropy. She held philanthropic roles with the Fossil Foundation, Perpetual, the icare foundation, Macquarie Group Foundation. Claire grew up in country NSW and has since taken the opportunity to live, study and work in the USA, Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. She holds a bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Commercial Law) and Science (Psychology) from the University of Sydney

Network co-chairs

Belinda Morrissey - Chief Executive Officer, English Family Foundation

Belinda Morrissey is passionate about how we collectively build forward just, sustainable and inclusive economies. She is the CEO of the English Family Foundation, one of the few Australian foundations with a sole focus on driving transformational change through the growth and development of social entrepreneurs and social businesses.

With deep experience within the Australian social enterprise sector and an extensive leadership background in both corporate and not for profit organisations spanning three continents, Belinda works across sectors to develop systems-based solutions that will mobilize capital and the ecosystems needed to create long term social change both within Australia and globally.

She is the Chair of Social Enterprise Australia, the national peak body for social enterprise in Australia, and is Co-Chair/Founder of the Social Enterprise Funders Network within Philanthropy Australia. In her personal capacity, she is also Chair of ActionAid Australia.

Sally McGeoch - Senior Advisor, Westpac Foundation

Sally is a senior advisor at Westpac Foundation, a philanthropic organisation, independent from Westpac Group. Sally works on the design and delivery of grant and capacity building programs for community organisations and social enterprises that create jobs and employment opportunities for Australians facing complex barriers to work.

Sally has worked at the intersection of philanthropy, business and social enterprise for close to 16 years and is a founding member of The Bread & Butter Project. She is also currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne on the role of cross-sector collaboration in supporting Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) to scale.