naugural 3 Pillars Network Social Returns Forum Creating, measuring and investing in social change Sydney, Monday 25th October This not-for-profit event will explore the intricacies of social impact measurement, the business case for corporate investors and the development of social lending opportunities. Throughout the event you will hear from cutting edge social entrepreneurs and their advisers who are becoming part of one of the fastest growing sectors in Australia. In association with Social Ventures Australia, Westpac, Dealers Group and Net Balance. www.3pillarsnetwork.com.au To register or for more information contact Anne Cameron Phone: 02 9810 216 Email: anne@3pillarsnetwork.com.au

1. Inaugural 3 Pillars Network 25 OCT 2010
Social Returns Forum SYDNEY
Creating, measuring and investing in social change
A not-for-profit event
In association with
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2. Inaugural 3 Pillars Network
Social Returns Forum
8.45 Opening remarks from the chair 10.15 Panel discussion
Ross Wyatt Connecting the head and the heart
Associate Director, Net Balance Chaired by SVA’’s Kevin Robbie, this session will discuss
the challenges presented by measuring social return on
Ross has over 25 years experience in
investment. Is there a danger of overlooking the more
senior marketing and sustainability roles
intangible, harder-to-quantify social benets –– those that are
which has included management of some
often exactly the reason why charities exist in the rst place?
of Australia’’s highest prole brands,
and leadership of a major charity organisation, Starlight Gianni Zappala Executive O cer, Westpac Foundation,
Children’’s Foundation. Centre for Social Impact
David Brookes Managing Director, Social Traders
9.00 Opening keynote Louise Walsh Director, Artsupport Australia
Paul Bird Victorian State Director,
Alex McDonald Mission Australia
Executive Director, Wise Foundation and
Director, Body Shop Australia
Alex is active in assisting the development
of small and micro business within 11.00 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING
Australian and South Pacic communities.
He is former director and CEO of The Big Issue Australia and a
former director of the Foundation for Young Australians.
11.30 Social enterprise in action:
Disruptive innovation* in social enterprise who is measuring returns and
While gauging return and nding sustainable funding should how are they doing it?
be crucial elements of any successful social venture strategy,
the importance of stepping outside the box cannot The Eaglehawk Recycle Shop
be underestimated. Currently working on the development A community enterprise providing cheap secondhand
and management of a range of social businesses materials to Central Victoria, The Eaglehawk Recycle Shop
within Australia, Alex will argue supporters of today’’s creates jobs by encouraging people to reuse and recycle.
social enterprises are hamstrung by conventional funding In 2006 Eaglehawk commissioned a study to put a number
strategies. Real social change can only be achieved by to its SROI.
enabling the beneciaries and, more importantly, setting
Rebecca Dempsey CEO,
them free of traditional constraints.
Future Employment Opportunities Inc
Followed by questions and answers
The Fred Hollows Foundation
An international development organisation focusing on
9.45 Reconciling financial and blindness prevention and Australian Indigenous health.
social returns
Brian Doolan CEO, The Fred Hollows Foundation
Kevin Robbie
Team Leader Followed by questions and answers
Social Enterprise Development
Social Ventures Australia
What do grant-makers, charitable trusts
and corporations need to gauge the
impact of the social ventures they support? What methods
are available to these organisations to measure the return * Disruptive innovation: innovations that improve a product or
on investment and e ciently manage an expanding service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by
lowering price or designing for a di erent set of consumers.
portfolio of social and environmental services they provide?
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Social Returns Forum
12.30 Establishing the business case 2.45 Panel discussion
for corporate investors
Tapping the capital markets
CSR to CSE –– How to move from the obligation of
Corporate Social Responsibility to the opportunities Chaired by Glen Saunders, this session will focus on the most
of Corporate Social Exchange appropriate nancial instruments to drive the development
of social enterprise in Australia?
Mapping and measuring the value exchange between
companies and society Kylie Charlton Managing Director, Unitus Capital
London Benchmarking Group (LBG), Social Return on Peter Ball Business Manager,
Investment (SROI), Social Impact, CSE –– How to make Foresters Community Finance
sense of the tools at your disposal
Michael Traill CEO, Social Ventures Australia
The holy grail of community investment - Current
thinking on measuring the Return on Social Investment
(as distinct from the Social Return on Investment)
Ross Wyatt Associate Director, Net Balance
3.30 AFTERNOON TEA
Followed by questions and answers
3.45 Social Enterprise in Action:
Funding community projects
1.00 LUNCH Hepburn Wind will be the owner and operator of Australia’’s
rst community-owned wind farm, at Leonards Hill,
just south of Daylesford Victoria.
Embark is working with local communities around
Social investing Australia to enable community-ownership of clean
energy infrastructure.
2.00 Afternoon keynote
Simon Holmes a Court Chairman, Hepburn Wind
Glen Saunders Mary Dougherty Executive Director, Embark
Board member and Treasurer of the
United Nations PRI, chair of Prometheus
Finance, senior adviser to Triodos Bank, 4.30 ‘Show me the money’
chair of the Sustainable Business Network
and of Sustainalytics. Four social enterprises present their case and discuss the
challenges of nding sustainable sources of funding.
Developing opportunities in the Australian social
Chaired by Jerry Marston, Owner, JJCSR Consultancy
lending sector
Participants tba
Australia and New Zealand have trailed the US, UK and
Europe in the development of social enterprise and the social
lending and investment needed to provide it with the capital 5.45 Wrap up from the chair
to grow. But this is starting to change and the next couple
of years look set to see an exciting development of what has
proven a dynamic model elsewhere. 6.00 End of forum
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