Sustainable Community Development Olivia MacLean, Brent Lyons Lee, Bessie Graham

Plenary Outline A Shared Future in Community Enterprise – opportunities and needs The Care agency Olivia MacLean The Church Brent Lyons Lee The Enterprise training partner Bessi Graham Engagement: Questions from the floor

A Shared Future “I am convinced that the era of large government-funded welfare agencies is over” Tony Nicholson, CEO, Brotherhood of St Laurence, 2013

A Shared Future –What then?

The Care Agency Norlane – our 30 year commitment, partnering for transformation

The Care Agency Delivering support and social transformation in new ways means a return to our roots - partnership with the BUV and Baptist Churches. This grows at the “speed of trust” (Margaret Wheatley)

The Care Agency 4 styles of community development of interest to Baptcare & the BUV. Partnerships primarily reliant on Government Funding Social Enterprise (TDi) & Business as Mission Asset-based community development (Urban Seed) Community solution for professional developers (HVC)

The Care Agency Delivering support and social transformation in new ways means finding new models and tools; challenging structures and governance; pushing legal boundaries. This costs time and money!!!

The Care Agency Examples: Social Impact Investment (what kind of debt is it? Should it be counted as fundraising dollars?) Social Outcomes Measurement (governance issues of veracity and validity, alignment) Collective Impact (legal and governance issues regarding backbone organisation) Shared Value (protecting our social capital and trust from being de-based by Corporates?)

The Churches and the Union What are our churches doing in community engagement and mission? We are on a journey from welfare to empowerment We are working with Baptcare on shared Community Development projects. We are creating future leaders: examples include our new Innovate program and the development of hybrid pastors. Examples under development: Norlane, ELCs, Woodlea (incarnational 2 houses in a new suburb), Now and Not Yet (business as mission)

@BessiGraham @difincubator I’ll explain who TDi and what we do. If you don’t think attendees at your conference use Twitter feel free to remove the Twitter handles! Please note in the main presentation slides my name is spelt with an “e” on the end. It’s just Bessi, can you please edit that for me? @BessiGraham @difincubator

Do Good and Make Money! I’ll talk about the fact that the starting point for this conversation is the need to grapple with the concept of doing good and making money… For most in the social sector this alone requires a major mindset shift.

TDi’s Definition of a Social Enterprise A Social Enterprise is an organisation with a central social or environmental mission that has, or is developing, a sustainable business model. Explore what we mean by the term social enterprise

What is an ISE? An Investable Social Enterprise is an organisation with a central social or environmental Mission, a commercially viable business Model, and the right Management to deliver on the Mission and Model. Describe why we developed the term ISE three years ago and why growing ISE’s is so important to TDi

Intention & Measureability What does a sustainable business model enable? Explore why developing a sustainable business model changes the game for the social sector

The difference between scale and replication Explore the difference between scale and replication and why it’s important to make the distinction