social enterprise for wellbeing and mental health
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Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health. Presentation by Associate Professor Jo Barraket The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies [email protected]. Aims. A definition and review of social enterprise activity - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Social Enterprise for Wellbeing and Mental Health
Presentation by Associate Professor Jo BarraketThe Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies
Aims
• A definition and review of social enterprise activity• A quick look at the health and wellbeing impacts of
community-focused social enterprises
Defining social enterprise (from FASES)
• Social enterprises are organisations that:– Are led by an economic, social, cultural, or
environmental mission consistent with a public or community benefit;
– Trade to fulfil their mission;– Derive a substantial portion of their income from
trade; and– Reinvest the majority of their profit/surplus in the
fulfilment of their mission.
Types of Social Enterprise
• Charitable trading ventures• Cooperative and community-owned businesses• Intermediate Labour Market enterprises• ‘New start’ social enterprises
Industries in Which Social Enterprises Operate
Main Mission of Participating Social Enterprises
Targeted Beneficiaries
Barraket and Archer Study
• Looked at impacts of community enterprise on individual and collective wellbeing
• Based on:– Literature review– Online survey (N=66)– In-depth interviews with 10 enterprises (N=21)– Case studies of 4 enterprises– Workshops with 22 practitioners
Findings
• Economic participation– Most strongly emphasised– Individual participation through training and
employment creation or bridging– Area participation through retention of services,
employment and economic flows in local economy
– Prevailing theme: the social context for economic participation
– Tension: market demands vs member/participant needs
Findings (cont’d)
• Social Participation– Strong emphasis on bridging social capital.
There has been a whole lot of social benefit out of it from a whole series of people involved; there has been a series of networks developed between young people and older people…we had a number of working bees where people; the kids who worked on their part of the project and the people who had worked in [the
theatre] 30 years ago, were in the same place at the same time, so that interaction was really good.
– Emphasis on social dimensions of the day to day of doing business
Findings (cont’d)
• Civic participation– Much less evidence of individual civic participation
(consistent with European research)– Some evidence of rehabilitation of public/civic spaces
by community enterprise
Acknowledgements
• 600+ research participants• Social Traders and Westpac Foundation• Victorian Department for Human Services• Victorian Local Governance Association• Dr Verity Archer, Deakin University• Drs Nick Collyer & Heather Anderson, and Matt O’Connor,
QUT