Revenue and Scaling
These resources support social enterprises to build sustainable revenue models, strengthen financial resilience and scale their impact. They include tools for diversifying income, improving operational efficiency, accessing procurement and investment opportunities, and preparing for growth across new markets.
Whether you are refining how your enterprise generates income, testing approaches to scale your operations, or preparing for funding, procurement or impact investment opportunities, these resources are designed to help you build a stronger, more sustainable foundation for growth while staying aligned to your social or environmental mission.
Revenue & Business Models
Helps map and test revenue streams, pricing models and value creation.
Best for refining how your enterprise earns income and identifying new revenue opportunities.
To stay ahead, you must show the unique value your business offers. Understanding your customers and your competitors can help you develop your value proposition. A well constructed Value Proposition supports clearer alignment between customer needs and pricing/offers, especially useful for testing new products or services.
Understanding what costs are required to run your business, and how and where they add value to your operations is integral to financial sustainability. These resources explore practical ways to strengthen profitability by diversifying income, managing costs and improving financial efficiency. Learn about the different expenses involved in running a social enterprise and discover strategies to better manage and reduce costs, improve financial resilience and create a stronger foundation for sustainable growth and impact.
Scaling & Growth Strategies
What makes a social enterprise different from a traditional business? It’s a commitment to creating positive social or environmental impact alongside financial sustainability. Delivering impact often requires additional skills, resources and investment, meaning that social outcomes must be carefully considered as part of the overall business model rather than treated as a separate activity.
A strong social impact business model clearly demonstrates how trading activities support and advance the organisation’s mission. By understanding the costs, capabilities and resources required to deliver impact, social enterprises can design business models that are both financially viable and effective in creating meaningful, measurable change.
Designed specifically for social enterprises to balance:
- trading income
- social impact
- beneficiary value
Best for scaling without losing mission alignment.
As social enterprises, we want to change the root causes of a problem. A Theory of Change (ToC) is a description of why a particular way of working will be effective. Learn and explore how change happens in the short and long term to achieve the intended impact.
Learn how to support operational efficiency and cost reduction through sustainability improvements important for scaling profitably. EcoBiz is a free Queensland sustainability program that helps businesses improve environmental performance while reducing operating costs. Delivered in partnership with the Queensland Government, the program provides practical advice, workshops and tailored support to help organisations use energy, water and resources more efficiently, lower carbon emissions and build resilience to climate-related risks.
Access free tools, expert advice and practical strategies to reduce costs, improve environmental outcomes and build a more resilient and sustainable social enterprise.
Investment & Market Access
Access to capital and new markets is critical to the long-term sustainability and growth of social enterprises. Whether seeking grants, philanthropic funding, social investment, procurement opportunities or new customer markets, organisations need to understand the pathways available and be prepared to demonstrate both their financial viability and social impact.
These resources are designed to help social enterprises build investment readiness, explore funding and financing opportunities, and identify pathways to market through government procurement, corporate supply chains and strategic partnerships. By strengthening both investment capability and market access, social enterprises can unlock new opportunities for growth, diversify revenue streams and scale their impact in a sustainable and purposeful way.
Social procurement is an increasingly important pathway for social enterprises to grow their revenue and expand their impact. The Queensland Government’s social procurement resources provide guidance on how procurement decisions can deliver broader social, environmental and economic outcomes alongside value for money. These resources help suppliers understand social procurement principles, policy expectations and how to position their organisation to participate in government and corporate supply chains.
Learn how social procurement works, understand buyer expectations and identify opportunities to leverage your social impact as a competitive advantage when pursuing contracts and supply opportunities.
VendorPanel is an online supplier portal that connects businesses with Queensland and local government procurement opportunities in one central location. The platform simplifies the tendering process by making it easier to search for opportunities, receive tailored notifications and submit responses to requests for quotation and tender opportunities.
Access a streamlined pathway to government procurement opportunities, receive alerts for relevant tenders and build your capability to compete for contracts across multiple government agencies and councils.
Brisbane 2032 Procurement Opportunities
The Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games present one of the largest procurement and supply chain opportunities in Queensland’s history. The Games will require a broad range of goods and services across infrastructure, events, hospitality, technology, professional services and community initiatives, creating significant opportunities for local businesses and social enterprises.
Brisbane 2032 has committed to delivering positive economic and social outcomes through inclusive procurement practices, creating opportunities for suppliers that can demonstrate both commercial capability and community impact.
Understand the procurement pathways emerging through Brisbane 2032, identify future supply opportunities and position your organisation to participate in one of Queensland’s most significant long-term market opportunities.
Discover more funding and investment opportunities, improve your readiness to attract support and capital, and access practical tools to help your organisation enter new markets, secure contracts and grow its social and environmental impact.
