• Social enterprise mapping – Identifying and mapping social enterprises within local government areas

• Social enterprise strategy – Developing and executing social enterprise strategies as part of your economic development or community development objectives

• Social enterprise capability building – Designing and implementing programs to enhance the capacity of social enterprises within your area

• Social procurement strategy – Developing and executing social procurement strategies; advice on how to make government procurement processes easier to navigate for social enterprises; measuring social procurement impact and identifying the good news stories to share with your communities; Victorian Government Social Procurement Framework reporting

• Inclusive employment strategy – Designing and implementing inclusive employment strategies and programs to reduce entrenched disadvantage in your most marginalised communities, including mentoring programs for diverse cohorts

• Training - Offering workshops, webinars, and 1:1 support to equip your teams with the knowledge and skills needed to drive social impact across your organisation.

I offer in-depth expertise in the design and delivery of purpose-led business and social entrepreneurship programs tailored for local businesses, start-ups, social enterprises and creative practitioners within your local government area or target community. My work helps strengthen the capacity and capabilities of both emerging and established small businesses.

Topics of expertise include:

• Starting a purpose-led business

• Attracting more customers

• Growing your business

• Managing operations

• Leadership and team management

• Financial management

Having worked on both sides of the grant process—as a funder and as a recipient—I have the knowledge and experience to design and implement highly effective grant programs that maximize social return on investment.

I have a keen ability to identify social washing and know the right questions to ask to ensure you’re making informed decisions when investing for impact.

How I can help:

• Grant program design & implementation – Creating and executing grant programs that deliver strong social returns, while ensuring assessment panels have the necessary information to make informed decisions

• Grant submission assessment – Quickly identifying high-impact opportunities and distinguishing them from lower-impact proposals

• Gender equity lens - Bringing a gender diverse perspective to grant application design and grant assessment panels, ensuring capital is being distributed equitably amongst gender diverse cohorts, especially women-owned and managed orgs.

With expertise in government procurement processes, I offer workshops designed to help local, purpose-led and creative businesses navigate government contracts and tenders. These sessions provide practical guidance on how to improve the chances of success in submitting bids to government entities.

• Understanding government contracts

• Finding government quotes and tenders

• Tips for winning government contracts

• Responding to government tenders