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SEH case studies

The Social Enterprise Hub operates across 10 services, providing expertise in business model creation, opportunity assessment, and competitor analysis to foster social change ventures. 
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1. Digital Marketing

Bila Empower is a new non-profit start-up that offers educational and holistic healing services serving indigenous communities and related stakeholders.

  • Project Description: Marketing plan & social media strategy
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

The Fund’s Empowering Educators Across Borders initiative wants to bridge the geographical and institutional divides that often limit opportunities for educators in developing nations.

  • Project Description: Brand development, market awareness and fundraising.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 4 Quality Education

2. Customer Experience

Learn Grow Become believes that everyone has amazing potential. They work with students - particularly those from disadvantaged cohorts, who can fail to realise their dreams in higher education.

  • Project Description: Learn2Learn pilot program design, execution and evaluation.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 4 Quality Education

Red Nose is Australia’s leading authority on safe sleep and safer pregnancy advice, and bereavement support for anyone affected by the loss of a pregnancy, stillbirth, the death of a baby or child.

Project Description: Growth and marketing plan for expansion of clothing donation initiative.

Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

3. Event Management

The Catalyst Foundation’s Women45 Collaborative supports unemployed, self-employed women and those working in jobs and business to network, upskill and learn about business development, leadership, employment and economic enterprise.

  • Project Description: Event planning and marketing plan for sharing of program outcomes.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

Play it On is a social enterprise that provides funding to assist children from families that are financially challenged, to participate in their chosen sport.

  • Project Description: Event planning and marketing plan for a signature hybrid sporting community event.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

4. Artificial Intelligence

Wovnn is a start-up that seeks to disrupt the learning and work paradigm by development of a platform using AI to create rich real-time capability profiles of learners & job candidates.

  • Project Description: Development of business requirements and BETA testing.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 4 Quality Education
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5. Data management & Analytics

Musculoskeletal Australia (MSK) is here to support people whose lives are impacted by muscle, bone and joint conditions and improve their quality of life. 

  • Project Description: MSK data exploration and venture plan development
  • Target Cohort: MBA/MBAA, MBIS
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing
  • MSK is dedicated to improving the quality of life for those with musculoskeletal conditions

Kidsafe Victoria is an independent, not for profit organisation dedicated to the prevention of unintentional death and injury to children through education, advocacy and research.

  • Project Description: Analysis of child safe restraint data captured over 4 years.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

6. Cloud Applications

Part of our service offering involves the development of websites for a number of clients, providing clarity as to their purpose and offering.

  • Project Description: Website design, development, branding and messaging, e-commerce functionality.

Rate My Clinic was established to provide Allied Health Clinic owners with an easy-to-understand assessment of their business that contains recommendations for improvement.

  • Project Description: System/Software Requirements Specification, data base design, prototype development.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

Rate My Clinic was established to provide Allied Health Clinic owners with an easy-to-understand assessment of their business that contains recommendations for improvement.

  • Project Description: System/Software Requirements Specification, data base design, prototype development.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

7. Accountant & Financial Services

MYOB is a leading provider of business management software. Torrens has embedded MYOB within its curriculum. Students get to apply their knowledge through the Hub.

  • Project Description: The Hub in conjunction with MYOB has devised an audit instrument to assist not for profit enterprises to optimise their use of MYOB.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 9 Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

8. Project & Agile Management

The LCA is the largest Protestant church in the world, with over 70 million members.

  • Project Description: Development of the ‘cookbook’ for the National Office’s Project Management Office. Subsequent trialling of cookbook across a diversity of complex to straight forward projects. 
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 9 Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

9. Engineering Management

City of Mitcham, a local government authority, has a strong focus on environmental sustainability. They have received national accolades for their solar and energy efficiency endeavours. They are now collaborating with Torrens Social Enterprise Hub focused on enhancing waste management practices to reduce landfill.

  • Project Description: Analysis of the current waste management landscape and identification of innovative practices across the globe that could help council tackle waste challenges and reduce landfill.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 11 Sustainable Cities & Communities

The Torrens Hub is supporting Bedford’s $50M investment in an advanced manufacturing facility which will support several social enterprise ventures.

  • Project Description: Market Research into the local consumer for the proposed cafe / tap house. Research into packaging options that reduce waste and optimise use of recycled materials.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing

10. Research, Strategy Program Design, and Evaluation

Wissen GROUP’s MedAuth App is being developed in response counterfeit medicines that pose a critical global health issue, with the World Health Organization estimating that up to 10% of medicines worldwide are counterfeit, higher in some regions. The app will instantly verify medication authenticity, revolutionising healthcare for consumers.

  • Project Description: Market Research / Competitor Analysis, Business Plan & modelling.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 3 Good Health & Wellbeing
Youth Options help people aged 14 to 30 to build their capacity to set and achieve their goals for a thriving future. Whether they are working with a student struggling to stay in high school, or a young person who hasn’t found their place in the workforce for some years, their person-centred approach can help them craft their best life.

Contested HERitage is a global, non-profit initiative of Torrens University Australia to address the historical imbalance by reimagining tourism spaces to be inclusive, and to reflect contemporary societies and cultures.

  • Project Description: Researching and documenting stories of significant women in South Africa. Development of new website to share stories.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 10 Reduced Inequalities

Phenxx is a proudly woman-owned and operated enterprise. Founded with the mission to uplift and inspire women through high-quality products designed with their unique needs in mind, Phenxx stands as a testament to female entrepreneurship and innovation. They are dedicated to creating products specifically for women, by women, distinguishes us as a top choice for consumers looking for brands that truly understand and celebrate the essence of womanhood. Join us in our journey to support and elevate women one product at a time with Phenxx.

  • Project Description: Contribute to the development of the business case including market research to determine the suitability of a new product to a new market.
  • Impact Fields (UNSDG): 10 Reduced Inequalities