Social Enterprise Aware is a 2-day micro-credential training program for values aligned professionals who work with (or wish to work with) social enterprises. It’s designed to help deepen your understanding of this emerging business model and its unique needs, so you can maximise your impact and theirs.

Participants will walk away with:

A deeper understanding of social enterprise key concepts, models and frameworks.
Shared language for speaking with and about social enterprise.
Understanding the unique governance, strategic, financial and operational needs of social enterprise business models.
Best practice strategies in engaging, supporting and enabling social enterprises and the people or places they exist to serve.
A micro-credential certificate and a 'Social Enterprise Aware Provider' digital badge to add to your professional platforms (website, email signature, proposals).

Why is this training program needed?

Collab4Good is offering this program based on feedback from the hundreds of social enterprises that we have worked with, who share their frustrations about working with providers, professionals and board members who don't quite understand the unique models and needs of social enterprise. Social enterprises operate with the brain of a business and the heart of a charity - and so they rarely fit neatly into the usual boxes we might apply for governance, strategy and operations.

Who is this training program for?

If you provide services to, or play a supporting role for, a social enterprise then Social Enterprise Aware is for you - you might be a values-aligned accountant, a bookkeeper, a lawyer, a marketing or human resources consultant, a business coach, a grant maker, an educator or perhaps you are joining a board of directors or an advisory board of a social enterprise.

Values-alignment is a top priority and registrants will be screened - too many social enterprises have been negatively impacted by extractive providers and we have a responsibility to ensure that those we endorse as a 'Social Enterprise Aware Provider' are genuinely wanting to enable the social and environmental outcomes that social enterprises strive for. You can see our core values and ways of working on Our Story page.

This first program is for those based in South Australia (SA) - if you are based outside of SA and would like to undertake Social Enterprise Aware in the future please complete this form to register your interest.

Key Details:

Duration: 2-days (not consecutive - please note dates below which allows time for reflection in between day 1 and 2)
Format: In-person only
Date: Friday 5th December and Friday 12th December 2025
Time: 9:30am to 4pm (both days)
Venue: Inparrila, 161 Frome Street, Adelaide
Cost: $1,250+GST per person (introductory price for our first program)

Lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days by local social enterprises - please indicate any dietary requirements at checkout.

Places are limited. A confirmation email with a diary invitation for the two days will be sent to you from Collab4Good following registration to lock in your place.

If the fee is a barrier for you to participate please reach out to us to discuss options as we want to ensure our programs are accessible.

Your Facilitators

The Social Enterprise Aware training program is facilitated by the team at Collab4Good. Your co-facilitators are Amy Orange, Managing Director and Co-Founder, and Arianna Watson, Impact Director, who both bring deep experience in running and working with social enterprises. Amy and Arianna will be joined by Mary-Jane Durbidge, Lived Experience Director, to provide an important lived experience perspective, and we will hear from guest speakers from local social enterprises throughout the program.

Collab4Good is a South Australian social enterprise intermediary that works with impact-driven individuals and organisations to drive positive social and environmental impact through enterprise and collaborative practice.