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Tag: Social Enterprise / Impact

Sustainability for Tourism Operators: Creating Positive Social Impact & Promoting your Sustainability Story

Webinar 4: Creating Positive Social Impact & Promoting your Sustainability Story

This webinar will discuss building strong community relationships through local employment and support, providing accessible experiences, fostering inclusivity in the workplace, and communicating sustainable practices.

Drawing from the new national Sustainable Tourism Toolkit, this four-part series of 1 hour webinars will offer practical guidance and case studies to bring the concepts of the toolkit to life. The webinar series is free to attend – simply register via the link at the bottom of the page. Please sign up even if you are unable to attend all four webinars, as recordings will be made available to those who have registered.

Sustainability for Tourism Operators: Respecting Culture Webinar

Webinar 3: Respecting Culture

This webinar will discuss engaging respectfully with First Nations people and championing local multicultural diversity.

Drawing from the new national Sustainable Tourism Toolkit, this four-part series of 1 hour webinars will offer practical guidance and case studies to bring the concepts of the toolkit to life. The webinar series is free to attend – simply register via the link at the bottom of the page. Please sign up even if you are unable to attend all four webinars, as recordings will be made available to those who have registered.

Sustainability for Tourism Operators: Environment and Climate Action Webinar

Webinar 2: Environment and Climate Action Thursday

This webinar will explore strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimising water use and waste production.

Drawing from the new national Sustainable Tourism Toolkit, this four-part series of 1 hour webinars will offer practical guidance and case studies to bring the concepts of the toolkit to life. The webinar series is free to attend – simply register via the link at the bottom of the page. Please sign up even if you are unable to attend all four webinars, as recordings will be made available to those who have registered.

Sustainability for Tourism Operators: Managing your Business in a Sustainable way

Webinar 1: Managing your Business in a Sustainable way

This webinar will provide insights on integrating sustainability into business practices.

Drawing from the new national Sustainable Tourism Toolkit, this four-part series of 1 hour webinars will offer practical guidance and case studies to bring the concepts of the toolkit to life. The webinar series is free to attend – simply register via the link at the bottom of the page. Please sign up even if you are unable to attend all four webinars, as recordings will be made available to those who have registered.

Webinar: How to improve the health of rural, regional and remote communities with an MRFF grant

Join our next MRFF Webinar at 11:00am AEDT on 14 March 2024 for a practical workshop on how health practitioners, researchers and health services can use research to address health needs in rural, regional and remote communities. This includes building research capability and sustainability, mechanisms and strategies for engaging in research and the MRFF support available for this research.

Our panel will talk about their experiences and provide personal insights. An opportunity to ask questions will follow.

 

Designing upstream: WA’s impact for complex and uncertain times

An event for Government and organisational leaders who are operating in complexity and looking to design with people and planet in mind.

Government and organisational leaders are faced with ever more complex, unpredictable and dynamic conditions…and expectations. In a post-pandemic, climate critical world it’s imperative that we go upstream to systemic and root causes to define, develop and deliver policy, services and products with net positive impact on people and our planet.

Join three of Perth’s leading social impact, strategic and digital design agencies for an evening of learning, sharing and storytelling, brought to life through project case studies, panel discussion and displays. We’ll share our collective experience tackling some of the country’s most complex and wicked problems, designing with the people and places impacted from right here in WA.

Hosted at Anthologie’s East Perth studio, together with Innovation Unit and Meld Studios, this event will appeal to leaders, senior managers and decision makers in industry, NGO’s and Government keen to understand how we might work in more sustainable ways to identify, prototype and deliver impactful solutions.

Busselton Community Grants Expo

The City of Busselton invites you to the Community Grants Expo, a dynamic event connecting our community groups, sporting clubs and local not-for-profit organisations with funding providers and essential grant services.

Engage with representatives from:

  • Healthway
  • Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries
  • Rio Tinto
  • Wicked Strategies
  • Busselton Water
  • Whitney Consulting
  • And many more!

Event highlights:

  • Free sausage sizzle from 5pm – 6.30pm
  • Grant Writing Essentials workshop 3.30 – 5pm with Wicked Strategies
  • Meet with City staff to learn about City funding opportunities and discuss your project ideas

Don’t miss this opportunity to make a difference in your community!

CSIRO: Human Rights and AI – a new impact assessment tool

The National AI Centre is delighted to host the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, and Head of Privacy & Data Ethics for National Australia Bank, Jade Haar, in a discussion about a new tool to help organisations consider and measure the risk to human rights posed by AI systems.

AI has the capabilities to improve efficiency and increase customer satisfaction when engaging with banking services. However, given the important role banks play in storing the wealth of Australians, it is important that when integrating AI into decision-making it is done ethically and with human rights at the forefront.

The Australian Human Rights Commission have partnered with NAB to develop and produce this human rights impact assessment tool.

This tool can be used to assess whether an AI system is lawful, transparent, explainable, used responsibly, and subject to appropriate human oversight, review, and intervention.

During this free webinar you will hear how the tool was developed, how it can be used and what Australian businesses can learn from its development.

Bunuru Social Impact Summit

Bunuru Social Impact Summit 2024

Culture: Survival, Resilience, Strength & Celebration

Wednesday 13 March 2024
6 am – 6 pm Poolgarla Parkland, Kaarta Koomba, Kings Park

The Bunuru Social Impact Summit is the pinnacle of the Festival. The previous Summits have inspired large-scale systems change, designed to help us all become better carers of everything through shifting cultural, social, environmental and economic outcomes.

The Bunuru Social Impact Summit will bring together diverse thought leaders, change-makers, artists, and innovators from across Western Australia. They will present their unique perspectives, experiences, and insights to explore how Aboriginal culture has, since colonialism, gone from surviving to thriving.

For 2024, our theme is Culture: Survival, Resilience, Strength & Celebration. 2024 also marks five years since the inception of Danjoo Koorliny, the halfway point of a 10-year journey towards the 2029 bicentenary.

The Summit is a celebration of Aboriginal culture, values, and achievements. The conversations will be culturally affirming and will challenge the status quo. New ways to address social, economic, and environmental challenges will be found while building and strengthening how Aboriginal people want to be represented, both now and beyond Danjoo Koorliny’s 2029 vision.

Our celebration will feature a series of engaging and diverse speaker sessions, cultural workshops and experiences, panel discussions, performances and inspiring keynote presentations. It will focus on a wide range of cultural themes and community-led activities for everyone to participate in as we continue our journey to drive change for future generations.

The Bunuru Summit will be held at the beautiful Poolgarla Parkland, Kings Park. We have some exciting add-ons like Bush Tucker / Talks & Tasting by Dale Tilbrook, Bush Medicine with Vivienne Hansen and Male & Female Cultural Walking Tours.

Boordawan

Outcomes Measurement Workshop

Elevate your organisation’s impact and demonstrate it effectively

In this interactive workshop, you embark on a transformative journey that will equip you with invaluable tools and insights to revolutionise how you measure, assess, and communicate your organisation’s impact. Whether you are from government, a not-for-profit organisation, a corporation, a social enterprise or a consultancy firm, when you enrol in our two-day Outcomes Measurement Workshop, you will:

  • Learn how to measure, evaluate and report on your social impact
  • Take away an outcomes measurement to-do list for your organisation to action straight away
  • Enjoy face-to-face learning and engagement with key leaders in the social sector
  • Access a network of peers to continue learning and sharing
  • Explore approaches to measuring impact that are culturally relevant and safe

 

Workshop Content

  • Language and key concepts of outcomes measurement and evaluation
  • Practical methods, tools and instruments to support quantitative and qualitative data collection
  • Developing a program logic, outcomes measurement framework and data collection plan
  • Designing a simple survey and conducting interviews and focus groups, within ethical guidelines
  • Storing and managing data
  • Communication and reporting on findings
  • Links between outcomes measurement, research and evaluation
  • Explore a range of evaluation approaches, including approaches to complexity and ‘next generation’ evaluations
  • National frameworks and tools that can be used to guide approaches to measurement that are informed by cultural safety
  • Reflection on the existing culture and practices across various sectors
  • An action list to ignite outcomes measurement in your organisation

Upskill with the Centre for Social Impact

 

Cost

Government/Corporate: $1200 plus GST

NFP and Social Enterprise ticket cost:  

  • Small NFP and Social Enterprise (those with annual revenue under $500,000): $750 plus GST
  • Medium NFP and Social Enterprise (those with annual revenue of $500,000 or more, but under $3 million): $850 plus GST
  • Large NFP and Social Enterprise (those with annual revenue of $3 million or more): $1,000 plus GST

Watch here for a taster of the workshop, presented by Professor Paul Flatau.

Facilitators

Professor Paul Flatau: Over the last two decades, Paul has held an extensive research and evaluation record across the social purpose sector and with government and businesses, covering a broad range of social issues. He has worked extensively with social purpose organisations, businesses and government departments in establishing their outcomes measurement and reporting frameworks

Lisette Kaleveld
Lisette is a social researcher who has worked on research and evaluation projects conducted in academic/research contexts as well as for the not-for-profit sector, as a public servant and as an independent consultant. Lisette has led a significant number national, state-wide and locally based evaluation projects as the principal researcher/team leader, and has undertaken capacity building projects including facilitating training, tools and frameworks for community development officers to measure the impact of their work in local government. Lisette’s
evaluation experience spans the mental health sector, education and disability sectors. Lisette is convener for the Australian Evaluation Society (WA Branch).

Dr Mariana Atkins
Mariana is a human geographer and planner and has been involved in conducting various evaluations and research projects at CSI UWA. Her area of research is around ageing, homelessness and vulnerability and policy and planning responses to address this. Employing qualitative and quantitative research methods, Mariana has extensive experience conducting process and outcomes evaluations focussing on vulnerability Lisette is a social researcher who has worked on research and evaluation projects conducted in academic/research contexts as well as for the not-for-profit sector, as a public servant and as an independent consultant. Lisette has led a significant number national, state-wide and locally based evaluation projects as the principal researcher/team leader, and has undertaken capacity building projects including facilitating training, tools and frameworks for community development officers to measure the impact of their work in local government. Lisette’s evaluation experience spans the mental health sector, education and disability sectors. Lisette is convener for the Australian Evaluation Society (WA Branch).

For further details or if you have any questions, please contact Mags Martin on 08 6488 5691 or margaret.ritchie@uwa.edu.au