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This library holds a chosen collection of useful tools, guides, and resources in the social enterprise sector. You can explore guides, articles, and more to support your journey. If you're starting a social enterprise, facing sector challenges, or looking into the impact economy, you’ll find something useful here.
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Steven Johnson is an author who studies how new ideas are created. In this video, he explains the main ideas from his book 'Where Do Good Ideas Come From?' He shares common patterns seen in history during times when creativity and innovation were strong, and what we can learn from them.
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This article explores inclusive leadership, which fosters belonging, psychological safety, and respect within diverse teams. It highlights six traits—commitment, humility, bias awareness, curiosity, cultural intelligence, and collaboration—demonstrating how inclusive leaders drive team performance, decision-making, and collaboration through consistent behaviours.
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This article by entrepreneur and educator Steve Blank was published in the Harvard Business Review in 2013. It introduces the lean startup method, which focuses on testing ideas quickly, listening to customer feedback, and improving products step by step.
Why the Lean Start-up Changes Everything
The Wisdom & Action Podcast by Small Giants Academy features host Berry Liberman in dialogue with global thinkers, exploring how to transform wisdom into meaningful interventions that address systemic challenges and shape a hopeful future.
Wisdom & Action
This session brings together voices from across the social enterprise ecosystem to share what’s been learned from over two decades of funding and supporting Work Integrated Social Enterprises (WISEs).
WISE in Practice: Insights from the WISE Learn Book
This community guide summarises the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2024 Native Title Report, which focuses on First Nations women's experiences of the native title system. It presents stories from women across Australia showing how the system fails to deliver justice, and calls for major reform. It is relevant to advocates, policymakers, community organisations and anyone working in land justice or First Nations rights.
Women in Native Title: Native Title Report 2024
Two decades of funding Work Integration Social Enterprises taught Westpac Foundation hard lessons about impact costs, sustainability, scaling, and philanthropy's role. This summary of their 2026 Learn Book distils those insights for WISEs, funders, and sector intermediaries across Australia.
Working better together: A WISE Learn Book
This infographic explains what a Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) is and how these businesses operate across Australia. It shows their employment goals, revenue sources and organisational structures using research data.
Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) infographic
This page, published by Xero, introduces Financial Fitness, a free program helping small business owners build financial confidence. It offers short learning resources, a self-assessment quiz and free mentoring with accountants and bookkeepers, drawing on Xero's own research into the gap between confidence and capability.
Xero for Good: Financial Fitness
This short blog focuses on developing a pitch deck for ventures seeking funding. It shares practical tips, a template to structure your pitch as well as common questions. Since it’s from a conventional business perspective you’ll need to consider where your impact proposition should be included.
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This is a report from Nalderun's Yulawil Sharing Circle, bringing together First Nations organisations to discuss supporting First Nations youth. It argues young people hold wisdom too and should shape their own measures of success. It explores youth leadership and mentorship from a First Nations perspective.
Yulawil Sharing CircleThis is a video from Nalderun sharing reflections from First Nations organisations on supporting First Nations youth. It argues young people should be trusted, consulted and given genuine pathways rather than a single ceiling role. It explores what respectful, youth-led support can look like in practice.
Yulawil Sharing Circle Video