The collaboration between Social Traders and the Ian & Shirley Norman Foundation will be instrumental in amplifying the scale and impact of social enterprises. As we certify more enterprises, stakeholders from both the business and government sectors can confidently engage, knowing they are purchasing from genuine social enterprises. Increasing the number of certified social enterprises also increases the size and depth of the dataset we collect, which we’re committed to sharing with the sector to increase awareness and support advocacy.
The Ian & Shirley Norman Foundation’s support is pivotal in helping us realise our bold Vision 2030. Their investment enables us to scale our impact, grow the social enterprise sector, and create thousands of meaningful jobs for the most marginalised in our community.
Social Traders is a leading social enterprise intermediary, helping certified social enterprises grow trade revenue. Since 2017, trade revenue catalysed by Social Traders marketplace has exceeded $1 billion.
Social enterprises are businesses like any other, but they exist to intentionally solve social or environmental challenges.
Social Traders has successfully built a national social procurement market and has supported over 300 of Australia’s largest businesses and four state governments to build certified social enterprises into their supply chains.
By 2030 their goal is to unlock $5.5 billion in contracts for social enterprises – creating over 44,000 jobs, 6 million training hours and delivering community services and donations of $128m.