Community Finance and Social Investment
Our vision is an Australia where communities of people build innovation, independence and adaptability through finance and investment strategies that deliver both financia and social returns.
Building financial resilience and sustainability:
This work has 4 key elements:
- Securing new social investment capital;
- Establishing new financial products;
- Developing financial skills and knowledge within organisations;
- Ensuring that social purpose is clearly articulated.
Social Investment Capital:
We ask Australian investors to put their money into social investment products that will in turn provide a new source of capital to social purpose organisations, (in addition to government funding and philanthropy). Our social investment products are designed to balance the interests of investors and social purpose organisations and as a result deliver long term sustainable investment returns.
Learn more about social investing
Financial Products:
We look for innovative ways to recycle and reuse money that helps to build economic strength and security and the capacity of communities to build their self-reliance.
Learn more about Community Economic Development
We aim to build the commonly-held wealth of Australian society (in this era of significant growth of individually-held wealth). Wealth and assets owned through community organisations can be leveraged to bring benefits for everyone in a community. To do this we design and deliver finance products and asset building solutions uniquely targeted to the needs of social purpose organisations.
Learn more about community asset building
Financial knowledge and skills:
We work to increase awareness of the possibilities and the skills of individuals and organisations to effectively plan, manage and leverage income and assets. This means we support organisations to change governance approaches, create living strategies, build financial sustainability and broaden resource bases. Learn more about our education and publications
Social Purpose
Building the wealth and asset base of communities is not something we endorse as an end in itself. To safeguard against communities and orgnisations becoming wealthy for wealths sake we like to encourage a clearly articulated social purpose. Social purpose can be articulated through vision, mission, prodcut delivery, service delivery and through the distribution of profits back into the social purpose.