Social Outcomes

29/06/2020

Our recent blog post is on a fantastic article by Nancy Pachana, comparing the environment in animal welfare centres to that of aged care. The RSPCA has a framework that we could all learn from https://socialoutcomes.com.au/the-five-freedoms/

10/05/2020

Happy Paws Happy Hearts works with people who are severely socially isolated due to disability, mental health issues such as PTSD and long term unemployment. They invite participants to work with animals at the RSPCA who need training and socialisation in order to help them be adopted. This valuable work acts as a gate way to growing confidence, a positive view of the future and the contribution they can make as well as establishing new social networks. This is the gateway to re-engaging with the community, education and work. Our work with the team has been to design and implement a simple but effective impact measurement framework to capture and communicate the social impact they are creating.

09/05/2020

In 2016, we started a project with Churches of Christ Care to pitch for a social impact bond in Queensland. Now four years later, the bond is up and the program is supporting 150 young people as they exit out of home care to be more resilient and avoid homelessness and unemployment. We are thrilled that is one of our major investors in the bond.

In 2017, Suncorp invested in the Youth CONNECT Social Benefit Bond which is managed by Churches of Christ in Queensland’s Children, Youth and Families service. The program helps improve the lives of young people transitioning from state-based care into adulthood and independence in the community.

03/05/2020

Gender lens investing is growing as a discipline and we believe it can deliver enormous value. We have been working on a DFAT funded project in PNG and were exploring the barriers for small scale women farmers in infrastructure and what the way forward might be.

Social Outcomes uses a gender lens investing approach to understand the risk and return on any impact investment opportunity we develop. We and our partners are working with the DFAT funded Pacific RISE initiative in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to examine how investment could be used to benefit small sca...

08/03/2020

So thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to the dialogue on this year's international women's day . We are encouraging people to think about how the differences between us matter when we are trying to create social change. Assuming that we are the same can undermine our well intended actions.