Our Approach

We partner with communities using a place-based, capacity-building approach to micro-enterprise development. We address a gap in early-stage support that builds foundational skills in entrepreneurship and promotes micro-enterprise development as a strategy for addressing health and well-being.

exposure and activation

We co-design projects and programs with our partner communities to activate entrepreneurship. This includes raising the community’s awareness of self-employment as an option; developing individual and collective readiness for entrepreneurship; and capacity building in the hard and soft skill sets required to sustain a business
 

Train-the-trainer

We are currently developing and piloting a train-the-trainer program, based on our existing methodology and framework. We believe this will expand our reach and ensure that communities can build and retain the skills and expertise required to support sustainable place-based micro-enterprise development.

Ecosystem development

We work to develop the supporting entrepreneurial ecosystem to ensure emerging entrepreneurs have access to appropriate business support infrastructure. This includes relevant networks, information, markets, finance and financial management support, physical spaces and technology.
 

wellbeing

Enterprise in remote communities contributes to health and wellbeing by engagement in meaningful occupations and by fostering connection to culture and country. Strong cultural identity is fundamental to Indigenous health and social and emotional wellbeing, and connection to culture is evidenced as being preventative of suicide (Chandler, 2008). Our approach strongly promotes this.