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Welcome to the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). We bring together the business, government, philanthropic and social (not-for-profit) sectors, in a collaborative effort to build community capacity and facilitate social innovation....read more

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Steve Lawrence Yakety Yak interview

May 15, 2012

This is very special edition of Yakety Yak, featuring the man who many call “the grandfather ...

Spotlight

Growing support for social enterprises

May 10, 2012

Support for social enterprise is growing apace with The Westpac Foundation recently announcing $400,000 in grants to eight social enterprises across A...

Recent Blog Posts

Andrew Young:		"Steve Lawrence Yakety Yak -16 May 2012"

Doug Taylor:		"Rock stars in Nashville - 14 May 2012"

Peter Shergold:		"When it comes to community organisations, small can be beautiful - 11 May 2012"

Event News

Social Enterprise Fund-Grants Program

Social Enterprise: the next big thing? There is a buzz around the not for profit sector in Wester...register now

Education News

Challenges in social entrepreneurship

May 9, 2012

True social entrepreneurship requires co-operation between the public, private and community sectors...more

Research News

Homeless program benefits add up

April 17, 2012

Research led by CSI’s Professor Paul Flatau reveals homeless program not only improves lives but also delivers cost savings to the community.

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KNOWLEDGE CONNECT ISSUE 12:

Social Entrepreneurship – The Revolution Matures

by Cheryl Kernot

The discourse around social entrepreneurship continues at a pace: more international conferences, research interest, journals and university courses are some of the identifiers. Alongside the continuing emergence of innovative start-up social enterprises and businesses is the reality that the field has matured sufficiently to begin to measure impact: some established social ventures have scaled up and succeeded and some have failed. WATCH VIDEO