Fantastic news for Hireup! It's great to see impact investing becoming more prevalent in Australia.

EVENT: Data colonisation and extractive data practices are a concern for Australian Indigenous communities. Presented in partnership with Seer Data Analytics, join us on 19 October as we explore solutions to move towards true Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Register: bit.ly/pa-oids-event

Great initiative @hireupaustralia 👇👇

Well done @hireupaustralia - great post by co founder Laura O’Reilly 👇

“If impact-first means leaving returns on the table in exchange for social or environmental benefit, it is a tradeoff we believe is worth making.” - Michael Etzel bspan.org/3cR7BOc

Yume, an online marketplace for 'professional leftovers', turns surplus food hot potato into gold.... afr.com/companies/manu… #retail #ausbiz #FMCG

Great start to the #GSGSummit with some powerful poetry. Excited to be tuning in from Australia 🇦🇺

Covid has accelerated the need for impact forward - it has set the background for bold action - government cannot cope with the economic & health consequences of covid without bringing private capital & business in to help with the recovery Sir Ronald Cohen #GSGSummit

$40 trillion of ESG investment is now flowing to achieve impact as well as profit. Impact Investment is now a trillion dollar pool. Sir Ronald Cohen #GSGSummit

Major forces 1.shift in values towards companies that are creating positive change 2. Leaps in technology disrupting w impact as major component of business model 3. Transparency on impact - big data enabled us to measure impact & translate to $ terms #GSGSummit Sir Ronald Cohen

‘Victory is in sight’ a call to action from Sir Ronald Cohen at opening of #GSGSummit @GSGimpinv

Excellent session from @GSGimpinv Summit with Gillian Tett Benoit Valentin Temasek Andrew Kuper LeapFrog Investments discussing impact investing opportunities at scale & the blend of reason/conviction/passion that informs investment decisions youtu.be/-H_dGD83pLA #GSGSummit

Huge congrats to @hireupaustralia founders @jbrianoreilly & Laura O’Reilly on being named NSW Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneurs of the Year for bringing change to the disability sector 👏👏👏

Thrilled to be investor in Bardee alongside ⁦Blackbird⁩ -love the circular economics: Bardee is paid to take in food waste, paid for protein & paid for frass. This process offsets two tonnes of CO2e for every tonne of food waste processed 🙌 blackbird.vc/blog/investmen…

‘We need a reworked pathway to mainstream employment for people with disability that empowers them with real world training, skill-building, work experience and a placement into mainstream employment’ Paul Brown ⁦Jigsaw⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-11-2…

On a trip home from Amsterdam, Bardee founders Phoebe and Alex had a wild idea. "How could we transform an entire city's food waste into valuable products?" 💭 What happened next was absolutely astonishing. 💫 Hear the full story on Wild Hearts: buff.ly/31DIM4R

1/ @AtlassianFoundation would like to invite #nonprofits and #socialenterprises globally to apply for our skilled volunteering program, Engage 4 Good. Engage 4 Good is an #Atlassian program connecting employees with purpose-driven organisations to collaborate on skilled projects

Well done to all finalists & honourable mentions. We were proud to work with & invest in Jigsaw on its capital raise this year which is enabling it to expand nationally & provide more people with disability with work experience & support to transition to mainstream employment

If not now, then when? While we're not waiting for government, no doubt progress is slower and less impactful without their constructive engagement in a coordinated and sustained effort  to drive scale. Targeted action sends power…lnkd.in/edQrYvDt bit.ly/3nl7KOL