This case study explores HomeGround Real Estate, an innovative model of delivering affordable housing pioneered by HomeGround Services (now Launch Housing) in Victoria. It provides insights into the conditions which foster innovation in the not-for-profit sector and the challenges of growing a profit-for-purpose entity whilst staying true to purpose.

The Victorian Government's Social Enterprise Strategy, the first-of-its-kind in Australia, has been developed to improve and expand on existing support for the sector and to position Victoria to lead the country in driving employment participation and inclusive economic growth through social enterprise. Social enterprises already play a valuable role in the economic, environmental and social...

Social procurement – using business and government purchasing power to create social value – has tremendous potential for social impact. Procuring goods or services from social enterprises committed to employing and supporting marginalised groups, can create almost immediate change. However, social procurement is only an opportunity. It needs to be leveraged by entrepreneurial capacity to...

This study focused on the perceptions and perspectives of people with intellectual disability working in open employment with support from Disability Employment Services (DES); supported employment through Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs); and social enterprise employment.

This document reports on the research findings of the Finding Australia’s Social Enterprise Sector (FASES) 2016 project. FASES 2016 builds on the original FASES 2010 project, to document characteristics of Australian social enterprises, and explore the opportunities and challenges they face.