Nov 22, 2023 | Technology
Enterprise name Youngster.co
What’s the trading activity Youngster.co is a social enterprise that addresses the critical societal issues of the widening intergenerational gap, loneliness among young and old, and the challenges posed by rapid technological advances. Youngster.co creates work and volunteering experiences for young people who assist seniors with their tech needs. Free tech-help sessions are delivered by young people for seniors in shopping centres and libraries, or for a small fee at home.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
Our impact extends beyond tech help; we’re about building connections, fostering understanding, and creating a community where everyone feels valued and respected. We also commit 50% of our profits to tech help sessions.
What is your hope for the future?
The biggest challenge is to get the seniors aware of this service. The service is free at shopping centres. Businesses interested in up-skilling their mature-age workers might find our approach interesting:
Mature-age workers have a wealth of experience, knowledge, and skills that are an asset to any workplace. However, they have not grown up with the same technologies as their younger counterparts. As a result of this, many find adopting new technology to be a daunting task, affecting their confidence, productivity, and relationships with colleagues. Our vetted Youngsters are here to help mature-age workers learn the tech skills they need to work effectively. Whether you need 1:1 sessions for specific employees or group sessions to train everyone on a new system, we’ve got it covered!
Oct 20, 2023 | Technology
Enterprise name Australian Spatial Analytics
What’s the trading activity ASA is a unique data services provider, our purpose is to use data to employ diversity.
As one of Australia’s largest and fastest growing social enterprises, we add value to corporations and governments by training and employing remarkable young neurodiverse individuals to process and analyse geospatial and engineering data in a range of industries including telcos, energy, utilities, agriculture, government agencies and academia.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
Our Goal is to make Social Impact to the lives of young un-employed neurodiverse people in our community, by providing a career pathway in Geospatial and Engineering sectors.
By doing this, we solve Short term skills shortages for our client’s projects, by delivering Undergraduate Geospatial and Engineering professional services
We also solve long term skills shortages by training and nurturing the next generation of Geospatial and Engineering Professionals
How are you going with the work?
Answer ASA is Australia’s largest and fastest growing Work Integrated Social Enterprise, delivering Geospatial and Digital Engineering professional services to the Victorian Economy.
We have over 110 staff and plans to have 300 staff in 3 years, of which 80% will be neurodiverse
Jun 22, 2022 | Technology
What is your trading activity?
ActionSkills specialise in creating simple, yet powerful websites and campaign tools that everyday people can use.
We have been supporting small to medium sized non-profits and change makers for over 21 years, so we understand what works in the real world.
Training and mentoring is at the core of our approach, allowing you to build the skills to independently manage your websites and campaign tools.
We also provide ongoing management of systems and we are always here to support and sort out the hard bits.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
Supplying low cost IT strategy and services to small NFPs and community groups to increase their effectiveness as these services are inaccessible to many smaller groups
Increase the number of people in the NFP community with relevant technological skills to implement and run IT systems as there is a shortage of these skills.
We plan to run training and mentorship programs to achieve these aims.
What is the biggest challenge?
Sourcing funding to setup and run our big picture plans. We are currently running as a more traditional agency in the short term to fund our costs and implement smaller projects.
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Apr 15, 2022 | Technology
What is your trading activity?
Jigsaw is a social enterprise that trains and transitions people with disability into award wage employment. Our revolutionary pathway to open employment embeds a comprehensive, skill-based training program within a real workplace – our commercial document and data management business. Jigsaw Digital provides solutions for your digitisation needs whilst delivering social procurement outcomes.
Digitisation – Scanning and digitisation of physical records with exceptional accuracy – both on and off-site provided.
Information/data management – complex task based workflow processing, data administration, data-entry.
We are operational in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide, with plans to expand further. We service state government agencies, local government agencies, libraries, health sector, legal firms, schools National Sporting organisations, and are also hugely proud to call the likes of Allianz Insurance, Hireup, Westpac and many more, our customers.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
Jigsaw is about reshaping the pathway to open employment for Australians with disability.
Different from a Disability Employment Service, Jigsaw’s holistic approach starts from the very basics of work-readiness training all the way through to supported transition to mainstream employment. It ensures our trainees gain transferable skills relevant to every workplace and paid professional experience along the way.
All of Jigsaw Digital’s services are delivered by people with disability, paid at award-wage. Just 53% of people with disability are employed, compared with 83% in the mainstream. Jigsaw’s work-based employment pathway, which takes people through work-skills training, paid work experience and support to transition to a mainstream job, addresses the system barriers behind this imbalance.
When a customer uses Jigsaw Digital’s services, they are contributing to a future where people with disability are fully included in the Australian workforce.
We believe people prepare best for work, through work!
What is your hope for the future?
Jigsaw has a very simple vision for the future: an Australia in which people with disability are fully included in the workforce. We believe people prepare best for work, through work.
Since opening in 2014, Jigsaw has seen some extremely strong results and has created the following impact:
* 750 Trainees Supported
* 98 Employed at Award Wage
* 53Transitioned Into Mainstream Employment
Our goal by 2025 is to train 1,000 people with disability for employment and create 600 award wage jobs.
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