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Social Traders is a small nonprofit organisation established in 2008 to support and encourage the establishment of commercially viable social enterprises throughout Australia. Working with government, community, business and research partners, we aim to: * Raise awareness about social enterprise and demonstrate its benefits * Open up markets for social enterprise products and services * Increase finance available to start and develop social enterprises * Build capacity of social enterprises to trade successfully * Support the coordination of social enterprise development in Australia.

"The Swinburne Centre for Sustainability has developed an online software tool to allow small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to conduct a sustainability self-assessment of their operations. In addition to generating 'triple bottom line' reports for business, the tool provides practical information and resources to encourage SMEs to pursue immediate and realistic strategies to move towards sustainability"

Chuffed is crowdsourcing for social cause projects. That's it. If you want to crowdfund a refugee project, you're in. If you want to crowdfund your holiday to Paris, you're out.