Episode #16 How You and Your Money Can Make a Return and Impact with Tom Dawkins from StartSomethingGood and LendForGood.
In this informative conversation Alexandra chats to Tom Dawkins from StartSomeGood and LendForGood. StartSomeGood is a social enterprise which helps people design, launch and grow social impact projects, and LendForGood, a new crowd-lending platform for impact enterprises.
StartSomeGood provides fundraising and community infrastructure for social entrepreneurs and designs and delivers impact accelerators and capacity-building programs for partners including Optus, ING, the United Nations Development Program and the City of Sydney.
Tom is the host of the Good Hustle social enterprise design course, which has graduated over 200 social enterprise founders. The goal is to give emerging social entrepreneurs the skills they need to successfully launch and run their impact businesses, including the strength of purpose and resilience to survive the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial journey.
Tom was previously the founder of youth non-profit Vibewire, the first Digital Communications Director for Ashoka in Washington DC, the founding Program Director of the Australian Changemakers Festival and a founding Director of the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and the ACT (SECNA). He is currently a Director of the Centre for Social Impact.
In this conversation we talk about impactful investing, the concept of the missing middle in business, the very interesting concept that we as humans have a hard time keeping both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in mind simultaneously, which explains the reason why it is easier to get pro bono work than low bono, and the importance of purposeful parenting.
You can connect with Tom over at LinkedIn and learn more about StartSomeGood and LendForGood.
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