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This page showcases learning communities in the social enterprise sector. Here, people come together to learn, share experiences, and support one another. These communities help build stronger practice and collective impact. Explore each community to learn what they’re focused on, who’s involved, and what they’re creating for others to access and learn from.

Join this one hour webinar with The Data Conversation to explore what good data practice can look like and gain tips for how to improve your practice over time.
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Join Social Impact Hub and Minter Ellison for a live Q&A session for social enterprises to ask practical questions on legal structures, governance, and impact capital raising - with two of Australia's leading experts in impact investing and legal structuring.
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In the lead-up to World Human Rights Day, join the Impact Business School, in collaboration with Catalysr, the Human Rights Law Centre, and the Australian Human Rights Commission, for an interactive discussion exploring human rights as a core value and practice of social enterprise.
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This learning community built a toolkit that brings together Aboriginal Elders, community and practitioners to explore how Aboriginal Terms of Reference can transform governance, leadership and enterprise.
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Join SIMNA in collaboration with a range of peer learning partners to share key insights and reflections on impact measurement experiences in the social enterprise sector. How do we know if we're truly making a difference - and how do we show it to the people who matter?
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Join this interactive conversation with Social Good Outpost if you’re keen to explore impact measurement and evaluation practices and processes.
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These are collaborations set up to innovate and transform systems. They experiment with doing things differently to ensure all people, places and planet thrive.
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A learning community bringing First Nations business owners and leaders together to share knowledge and explore how Understanding, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (UMEL) can support people and planet to thrive.
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Join Think Impact for an engaging conversation with social enterprise leaders reflecting on failures they’ve experienced and lessons they’ve learned in building and scaling social enterprises.
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Join a facilitated discussion with a range of leaders from social enterprises reflecting on failures within the social enterprises they’ve been involved in.
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Join Future Minds Network and friends for a conversation sharing insights on how to meaningfully engage young people - from attraction to long-term retention.
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This learning community brought together neighbourhood and community resource centres leading a place-based, community-led social enterprise response to meeting the needs of older residents in regional Western Australian communities. The ‘staying in place’ social enterprise approach is running well in several locations. These organisations are well-placed to share their journeys with other organisations seeking to make a similar social enterprise transition.
Learn moreThis learning community brought together ethical storytelling practitioners and social enterprises from different spaces and places across the country, who are doing good work in the margins. The purpose was to convene a space of solidarity to share learnings and lived experiences, develop good practice together, and co-develop resources for broader sharing to build the capability of the Australian social enterprise sector.
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This learning community brought together First Nations enterprises that involve First Nations youth in leadership and mentorship roles, and First Nations organisations who were interested in learning how to support this work.
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These are spaces where key learnings are shared through webinars. They are open to all, and guided by themes and topics identified by the sector.
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Join Regen Labs and Regen Melbourne for an interactive session exploring how to navigate and connect across different “altitudes” of work. Whether that’s bold visions or practical, community-rooted interventions, this is a learning session for regenerative futures.
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Join PermaQueer and friends for a conversation sharing insights from their Deep Experience Learning Community on planetary boundaries, decolonising structures and equitable practice.
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This learning community built relationships between Aboriginal social enterprises and wider business and community stakeholders to grow awareness of, and opportunities for, engaging and supporting Aboriginal social enterprise in Lutruwita.
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These are communities that come together around topics of social enterprise interest and impact. They support development through nurturing new conversations, ideas and connections.
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Join STREAT and other Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) practitioners for a dynamic conversation on WISE models of supported training and employment pathways for people facing barriers to work.
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This learning community was focused on the South Coast region of NSW. It invited social enterprises and social entrepreneurs on the NSW South Coast who are curious about the world of social enterprise, to explore this together.
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Orienting Futures was a learning community for people working in social enterprise who wanted to explore new and better ways of doing things. It looked at how to care for people and the planet, understand power and systems, and learnt how to make real, lasting change — all while supporting emerging culturally and ecologically responsive practice in the social enterprise sector.
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Led by Regen Labs, WEAVE was a 12-month, place-based innovation collaboration. It was designed to learn how to support regional social enterprises to play a catalytic role in accelerating the shift to regenerative, inclusive, and climate-resilient economies.
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Join Sefa Partnerships and friends for a conversation sharing insights from a learning community focused on rural and remote funding challenges and opportunities.
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This learning community brought together a group of rural and remote leaders working to deliver social impact; and a group of funders wanting to support social impact in rural and remote Australia. From experiences of frustration, it looked for opportunities to increase the flow of funding across Australia’s diverse geographies.
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