Give the Gift of Changemaking

Give the Gift of Changemaking

Give the gift of changemaking in 2021 by shouting a deserving social innovator a place in an upcoming Good Hustle social enterprise design program and/or membership of our Starting Good Network.

These programs, one an intensive ten-week course to design a launch or growth-ready social enterprise, the other an ongoing learning community for changemakers, with regular monthly events and an exclusive online space for peer sharing and learning, are both designed to support emerging and early-stage (as well as more experienced!) social entrepreneurs and changemakers with the learning and community they need to survive and succeed.

There are three ways you can do this:

1. Gift a place in one of our programs to a changemaker you know, such as a son or daughter, friend, colleague or client. This unique gift will support them to realize their dreams as a changemaker next year;
2. Support an emerging social entrepreneur in one of the cause areas below via one of our trusted partners. This allows you to direct your support to a worthwhile individual, knowing a credible partner organisation is selecting that person.

Each membership is making a positive impact for two social enterprises: the recipients of the gift and StartSomeGood, by giving us more certainty going into next year.

If you want to purchase a number of memberships and would prefer to be invoiced email us at hello(at)startsomegood(dot)com.

Support An Emerging Entrepreneur

You can gift the opportunity you have sponsored directly to a social enterprise or entrepreneur you know or it can be allocated to a deserving entrepreneur via one of our trust partners. We have lined up a great set of credible organisations so you can feel confident your investment is going to someone who will make the most of the opportunity.

• An Indigenous Entrepreneur to receive a scholarship place in our Good Hustle program or 12 months membership of the Starting Good Network, selected and supported by our partners Indigispace. Indigispace as an Indigenous-run organisation running programs which support indigenous startups and entrepreneurs;
• Young developing world social entrepreneurs, selected by Acts of Gratitude (Rwanda) or partners of the Global Fund for Children (in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia);
• Migrant and Refugee entrepreneurs with Catalysr (Australia) and HOST International (Asia/Africa);
• Female founders via Pacific Connect (Pacific Islands) or via The Social Enterprise Council of NSW and the ACT (SECNA) (Australia) or via any of the organisations above;
• Founders working on ideas to Rebuild Democracy, a planned focus of our work in 2021.

You will be sent a digital card to share with the beneficiary of the gift or person you funded the opportunity on behalf of, and you or they will get a personal thank-you letter and updates from the entrepreneur you sponsor

Rewards

The main rewards are places in our Good Hustle course and membership of our Starting Good Network community which are described in detail above.

You can either gift this directly yourself to a changemaker you know personally or you can pay it forward to a deserving emerging entrepreneur via one of our trusted partners.

We will send you a digital card you can print or send on to the person you are giving it to or on behalf of.

This is a great chance to connect a client, partner or friend to an inspiring social entrepreneur, making a direct, identifiable impact in the world. You or the recipient can register and receive updates from the entrepreneur you or they have sponsored.

IN ADDITION: We are offering the opportunity to book some of our other key services, from premium support to workshops and speaking, at a discount. Only a limited number of these discounted places are available.

PLUS: We are offering our popular company t-shirt (below) on-sale for the first time in four years! We often get people telling us they want one when we wear them to events so now is your chance! (Remember when we used to go to events? Those days will come again! You’ll want some great t-shirts ready to go when they do).

ALSO: We will be offering limited edition pop-up rewards from our friends, partners and graduates from our programs. A new one will be added every couple of days and will usually be offered well below their regular pricing so check back regularly to see what is new!

NOTE: You are welcome to order or support as many different rewards as you like, or even multiple sponsorships (if you're ordering for client gifts say). If you want multiples of any items just click on "Want more than one reward?" at the bottom of the list of options.

Limited Edition StartSomeGood T-Shirt

More About Our Programs

//Good Hustle

Good Hustle is StartSomeGood’s ten-week online program to ideate, design, test and launch social enterprises.

The course consists of:

• 5 modules of two weeks each, each focused on a key step in the social enterprise design process, with lessons released weekly, each created by experts in their respective disciplines;
• Modules include video lessons, a work book & downloadable exercises and resources;
• Peer groups for discussion and support, based on a peer-mentoring formula we teach them;
• Group coaching sessions with experienced social enterprise coaches;
• Live sessions with experienced social entrepreneurs;

Upcoming Program Dates:

February 1, 2021 , April 12, 2021 and June 7, 2021

Good Hustle brings together some of the best teachers and practitioners globally to teach in their area of greatest insight, including:

• Alex Budak, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Haas Business School, University of California Berkeley, on mindsets of a changemaker;
• Ben Pecotich, founder, Dynamic 4, on human-centred design;
• Ben Reid, Fusion Labs, on social enterprise business models;
• Hildy Gottleib, founder, Creating the Future, on resource mapping;
• Natasha Akib, Digital Storytellers, on telling your story using video;
• Luke Facinni, founder of The Sponge, on developing your target persona;
• Rob Irving, The Funding Network, on pitching;
• Kate Clugston, The Social Outfit, on personal sustainability;
• Tom Dawkins, StartSomeGood founder CEO is the host, and also teaches on social enterprise models, theories of change, funding options and go to market strategies.

//The Starting Good Network

The Starting Good Network is an exclusive community for those committed to changing the world.

It will give access to the full StartSomeGood ecosystem and provide discounts to relevant products, services, courses and media from our partners. Most importantly, it gives social entrepreneurs access to their peers; those who, like them, are committed to taking an entrepreneurial approach and using their talents to make a difference.

Membership also gives access to two to three exclusive live calls with experienced social entrepreneurs each month, discounts to all public ticketed events we host, monthly coaching calls with StartSomeGood CEO Tom Dawkins and access to an exclusive online peer-learning platform. And, as they say, there’s more! See the full list of member benefits below.

It’s designed to be light-weight but high-impact, requiring only a small financial or time commitment, but giving access to resources, insights, educational opportunities and coaching you won’t find anywhere else.

These are the confirmed speakers we have just in the coming months:

Tom Szaky, Co-founder and CEO, Terracycle, the world’s fastest growing and most innovative recycling company;

Jess Scully, Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney and author, Glimpses of Utopia;

Pete Ceglinski, CEO & Co-Founder, Seabin Project, a very cool startup changing how we manage water pollution;

Amy Orange, founder, Fourth Sector Solutions, former founder, Harvest Fair, speaker, consultant and coach on impact businesses;

Mikey Leung, cofounder, Digital Storytellers, brilliant storytellers for change who have worked on many successful campaigns;

Christine Chun, Former Founder of 1Scope, now Commercial Director Year13, both Edutech startups;

Nick Savaidis, Founder of Etiko, a fair-trade fashion enterprise;

Drew Chafetz, founder, Love Futbol, a great US-based organization using soccer to create change worldwide.

Our Vision

Imagine a world where every person has access to the information, inspiration and tools to make a difference. Where great social change ideas can emerge from anywhere and where communities can create the future they seek.

This is a world of community-led innovation and local leadership. A world of ethical business and conscious consumption. A world where, crucially, those with a lived experienced of social challenge are involved in designing the solutions.

This is the world we are working to build at StartSomeGood.

This world would be more sustainable, more democratic, more resilient in the face of change and, we believe, more just.

But as you probably know already that starting new things is hard.

That’s why we work so hard to make it just a little bit easier for emerging changemakers.

Our platforms and programs provide a roadmap for early-stage and aspiring social entrepreneurs looking to make a difference. We inspire people to take action, equip them with the skills to make a difference and offer community that sustains them on the journey ahead.

We have led more than two dozen accelerators for social enterprises, graduated 120 students from our Good Hustle social enterprise design course, helped more than 1100 projects raise more than $16M AUD on our crowdfunding platform and we host the world’s biggest online event about and for social entrepreneurs, the annual #StartingGood Virtual Summit which attracted 6,000 registrations this year.

Our Situation

2020 has tested almost all of us like we haven’t felt for generations, and it will be hard not to feel a sense of relief as the calendar turns and we enter 2021, all fresh and new and full of possibility.

But the truth is, so many of our challenges will just move forward with us.

Nothing magic will happen.

We’re going to hear a lot about building back better.

About how our economy will rebound, fuelled by new optimism and entrepreneurship.

But this is easier said than done.

Building back better isn’t something a government can just mandate.

If “better” was easy it wouldn’t be better it would already be the norm.

But nonetheless better is where we must get to. The status quo, even before COVID hit us, was unacceptable.

So, there’s nothing for it but rolling up our sleeves and imagining, designing and building that better future.

However a year of cancelled and postponed projects - with so many foundations and corporate partners ceasing to invest in new ideas and look for new partners - has left us in a financially fragile position.

This campaign will help give us certainty going into next year while paying it forward to support worthy emerging changemakers around the world.