Early Ethical Enterprise Pitch Competition 2018
Early Ethical Entrepreneur Pitch Competition Highlights
Winner & Finalists for 2018
Pure Bundle • FINALIST 2018
Pure Bundle is a baby clothes marketplace that exists to help parents and our planet.
Easy to:
• purchase curated, “like new” bundles of quality clothes • clean out your baby’s closet
www.purebundle.com
Jaunt • FINALIST 2018
Jaunt creates beautiful electric vehicles for adventure. Recycling iconic four-wheel-drives and building simple to drive, silent and fun electric vehicles to explore Australia through community carshare.
jauntmotors.com
Nature Freedom • WINNER 2018
Nature Freedom is a not for profit social enterprise organisation supporting and connecting young people between 18 and 35 with disabilities finding meaningful access to environmental projects and inclusive adventure activities.
www.naturefreedom.com.au
Ecopact Groceries • FINALIST 2018
Ecopact Groceries is a retail store coming soon to Melbourne. Our mission is to make shopping for groceries in a more socially and environmentally responsible manner, viable in terms of both cost and time.
www.facebook.com/Ecopact
Connections • FINALIST 2018
Australia’s first migrant onboarding app, in your language. An initiative by a migrant, for a migrant.
The Connections app is a one stop shop for migrants to get information on setting up their new life in Australia, linking them with services to help make the transition easier.
ConnectionsAustralia.com/en
Past Winners 2015 – 2017
Project Selvage • WINNER 2017
Project Selvage is a sustainable fashion brand focused on closing the loop in the fashion industry and reducing textile waste. Our mission is to create a completely circular fashion brand, while providing jobs and training to disadvantaged members of the local Melbourne community.
Fruit2Work • WINNER 2016
Fruit2work creates second chance jobs by selling fruit boxes to offices in Melbourne. They have partnered with two charities (TaskForce and First Step), sell to multiple customers in the CBD and had their first program placement start in July.
www.fruit2work.com.au
Mighty Good Undies • WINNER 2015
Mighty Good believes everybody should have affordable quality cotton underwear sourced from the most ethical and sustainable supply chain we can find. They think they should come with a carbon offset too.
mightygoodundies.com.au
Ethical Entrepreneurs Pitch Competition 2018
Are you an established Ethical Enterprise and think you deserve an award?
Check out the Ethical Enterprise Award 2018
Why Apply?
The aim of the early entrepreneurial pitch competition is to provide entrepreneurs with an opportunity to present your idea to four business and social entrepreneurial leaders who are influential in the community and who have the mentoring skills and resources to support an entrepreneur or enterprise to make a concept a reality.
1 Gain visibility and the opportunity to pitch at Ethical Enterprise Conference.
2 Pitch your idea to a room full of passionate supporters of ethical enterprise – who may want to support your idea to become a reality.
3 Free ticket to Ethical Enterprise Conference 2018 where you can learn and build networks.
4 Free ticket to the Ethical Enterprise Award dinner on the evening of the 25th of October 2018.
5 Prize for finalist – Red Hat Impact will choose one of the early pitch finalists to receive 6 months of free access to its ‘Exploring Growth’ program, where the finalist will get one-on-one business strategy advice and facilitated introductions to assist them in taking the next steps with their idea.
6 Early Pitch winner will receive “Premium Support” from StartSomeGood to launch their crowdfunding campaign – either at the “Advising Partner” level or a $500 credit towards one of the higher levels. All packages are designed to help you design and launch a great crowdfunding campaign.
7 Bespoke business modelling and impact management consulting, valued at $2,000, with Dr Chris Dembek and Dr Jodi York from the Asia Pacific Social Impact Centre, authors of the new and free e-book, Actionable Impact Management. This consulting will (1) review and evaluate business models in use (or planned) with particular attention to assessing and maximising stakeholder value creation and capture, and (2) review or develop theory of change and impact management framework.
8 The Toxic Fox Show will invite at least one of the Early Pitch Finalists to receive a membership to an early stage six-month virtual Cultivate Circle, a mastermind group facilitated by Cultivate.biz. Facilitated Masterminds are a powerful tool, and they provide peer-to-peer support and accountability to help entrepreneurs to grow and achieve the impact they set out to make when starting their enterprise.
9 Inner Circle with Hemi Hossain a 6 months mentoring program to help you with your business idea, including 3 days boot camp and monthly catch up valued at $20,000.
Early Ethical Enterprise Pitch Competition Award Process and Eligibility Criteria
The judges will shortlist applicants to pitch their idea at the Ethical Enterprise Conference, on the 16th of October 2017. Each applicant will be given 5 to 10 minutes to present a competitive and innovative pitch.
Eligibility Criteria
Your concept may aim to positively contribute socially or economically to communities locally or overseas in the following areas:
Four industry leaders will judge the entrepreneurial pitches against following eligibility criteria:
1 The pitch or concept must have the potential to provide a positive impact on the social, economic and environmental status of a local or overseas community, through innovative and ethical practices.
2 The pitch or concept must have the potential to provide positive outcomes and change in a community through its trade practices or as a result of a proposed enterprise model.
3 The business concept must be well research and development and would therefore benefit from industry feedback and support.
Judging Selection and Process
Announcing the Winner!
The winning enterprise will be:
Accommodation
The Carlton Clocktower Apartments
Special offer for Ethical Enterprise Conference delegates View Details
Meet Your Judging Panel
Mirjam Groten
Business Development Director, Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand
Mirjam leads Fairtrade’s work with businesses to pro-actively build social, environmental and economic sustainability practices into their supply chain. (more…)
Ian Allsop
Senior Fellow at Melbourne Business School
Dr Allsop is an organisational consultant specialising in the area of strategic leadership. He Is a former managing director of Bioss International (Australia) and the consulting arm of the Brunel Institute (more…)
Tom Dawkins
Co-Founder and CEO of StartSomeGood
Tom Dawkins is Co-Founder and CEO of StartSomeGood.com, a crowdfunding platform for social enterprises, non-profits and changemakers initiatives globally. (more…)
Cameron Neil
Cameron has spent two decades working for a more equitable and sustainable world. His career includes paid and volunteer roles across government, community and business sectors, specialising in building (more…)
Sponsors and Community Partners
We would like to acknowledge the following for their contribution to the Ethical Enterprise Award, Early Ethical Entrepreneur Pitch Competition and Ethical Enterprise Conference.
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