Bridging the gap between rural impact and funding
We're bringing together leaders of rural impact organisations and potential funders to create better financial solutions for Australia's regional, rural and remote communities.
What’s not working
Rural funding isn't working as it should. Impact organisations struggle to access appropriate finance while funders find it difficult to connect with promising rural initiatives.
We’ve seen firsthand that funders don't always adapt to the on-the-ground realities faced by impact organisations. And impact leaders struggle to translate their work into the language funders speak.
The distance between impact organisations and funders isn’t just geographic, it’s systemic.
Conversations to redesign the system
With support from the Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI), Sefa Partnerships are bringing together those on both sides of the funding equation to explore opportunities to redesign how money flows to regional, rural and remote Australia.
We’ll be running collaborative sessions with both rural leaders and funders over the next three months to explore barriers and challenges to funding rural and remote social impact and identify opportunities for changing systems, processes and tools to make more funding flow.
Feel like you’ve missed out and want to get in on this action?
Send us a message to let us know you are interested and we’ll stay in touch with our learning and insights as we move forward.
Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn where we’ll be sharing some of our ideas!
Commissioned by Social Enterprise Australia as part of the Australian Government’s Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI), learning communities help build capability in the sector to grow social impact. Learn more here.
About Sefa Partnerships
At Sefa Partnerships, we believe there’s a better, simpler way to create real change in the world. A sister organisation of Sefa, we’re a charity founded to support relief to disadvantaged communities and people Australia. We bring together private, government and philanthropic dollars as blended finance for not-for-profit and profit- for-purpose organisations to help them grow and thrive. We also help them build capacity to deepen scale their impact over time.
We believe with the right resources reaching the right people at the right time, we can co-create sustainable impact across rural Australia together.