Category Archives: women

Social Entrepreneurs Off To A Winning Start

Check out our latest news about four SSE students who won funding for their start-up social innovation projects!!  Today four social entrepreneurs from the School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia (SSE) shared in a total of $30,000 from the inaugural Macquarie … Continue reading

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LaunchPad: Sanitary Pad trial for Women & Girls in Sierra Leone

A Guest Blog by Chantelle Baxter, Co-founder of OneGirl and SSE Melbourne Fellow. One Girl is currently working on LaunchPad – a social enterprise that provides low cost, eco-friendly sanitary pads to women and girls in Sierra Leone. We decided … Continue reading

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What did you dare to dream on International Women’s Day?

A Guest Blog by Zoe Lamont, Founder of 10thousandgirl Campaign and SSE Fellow – The 10thousandgirl Campaign is a social program bringing finance to life for 10,000 young women around Australia and setting a ripple effect in motion to raise … Continue reading

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Speech: Janet Hirst, CEO of The Ian Potter Foundation

SSE hosted a very special event in Melbourne yesterday, on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Below is the fantastic speech delivered by Janet Hirst, CEO of The Ian Potter Foundation, at our event: SSE Speech: Celebrating Women Changemakers, … Continue reading

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Celebrating Women Changemakers

“Who are we to change the world? Who are we not to?” Words from Jan Owen today at our Celebrating Women Changemakers event at the State Library of Victoria. In Melbourne, almost 100 men and women attended our lunchtime event … Continue reading

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