Global Sisters exists to “Back Her Brilliance” and make business possible for all Australian women. We support women who are unemployed or under-employed to become financially independent through business. Read more on our target group and the needs we are addressing: https://globalsisters.org/inabox/who-we-support/
We have worked with Aboriginal women across Australia since inception in 2016, and our impact to date is documented in the paper, First Nation Sisters on our Social Impact platform: https://impact.globalsisters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GS201104-First-Nation-Sisters-Paper.pdf
In this project, Global Sisters will build on that previous work, to develop an Aboriginal led strategy and implement a model designed with and specifically for Aboriginal Sisters. We will hire a national role, an Aboriginal “RCM” (our key Sister facing role) who will develop the strategy and adapt our model to meet the needs of Aboriginal Sisters in different contexts around Australia.
They will:
1.Identify the locations for Aboriginal women focused Hubs in existing and new locations
2.Support the establishment of Aboriginal focused Hubs, using our Global Sisters – In A Box model
3.Support Aboriginal Sisters to sell via the Global Sisters Marketplace
4.Develop a scale and export strategy for Aboriginal Sisters, and support in their capacity building to be scale and export ready, including brokering partnerships with businesses eg. https://impact.globalsisters.org/goanna-hut-t2-tea/
Through the Back Her Brilliance: First Nations Sisters project, Global Sisters will:
•Make business possible for 60 Aboriginal women in urban, regional and remote areas of Australia
•Establish between 3-6 face-to-face Hubs, and a culturally appropriate online access program, to support Aboriginal Sisters to ideate and launch new businesses and grow existing businesses
•Provide self-employment for Aboriginal women
•Support the launch of businesses that meet the cultural and socio-economic needs of their families and communities, and create broader value and social capital
•Increase market access and incomes via the Marketplace
•Support the potential of national scale and export ready businesses
Change the national discourse on Aboriginal women’s economic participation and raise the profile of Aboriginal women’s business, both in Australia and internationally
Global Sisters collects data and tracks impact across 6 social impact domains: business acumen, enterprise, financial resilience, empowerment, influence and connection. The findings are shared on our Social Impact platform, available as a live impact site: https://impact.globalsisters.org/
We believe in a world where every woman has the opportunity to create her own economic future. Global Sisters is a not-for-profit that makes business possible for women across Australia. We support the creation of new jobs and increase economic participation.Our purpose is to unlock women’s potential and overcome the barriers stopping her, so she can create her own employment, become financially resilient, stand tall and influence her family and community. More information: https://globalsisters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Main-Marketing-Brochure-12.pdf
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