Project Australia

Focus Area: 
Social Innovation

Project Australia works in the field of 'social innovation' - the process of community-focussed organisations and individuals engaging with social needs in novel ways. More specifically, they help out early-scale social innovation - the stage right after you have had a good idea but wonder what to do next!

Since 2006, Project Australia has helped facilitate two more nation-wide discussion nights, assisted numerous social innovators with their work, held three fundraising trivia nights and a live music event - 'Voices of Oz' - profiling emerging local artists, co-hosted two art exhibitions: 'Something Personal 1 & 2: Small Paintings in Support of Big Ideas' (http://bit.ly/7JuFg1) and provided support for an autonomous, sister-initiative: Project Kenya (www.projectkenya.or.ke). We have been involved in five research studies relating to social innovation, run a practical workshop for social innovators (http://bit.ly/b0mMce), spoken at various events, including six conferences, and provided free consultancies for 24 not-for-profit initiatives.

Whether it has been facilitating, consulting, fundraising or engaging with research, our work has always been focussed on building our ability to providing practical tools and services so that every Australian social innovator and non-profit idea has a chance to emerge and flourish.