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Incorporating A Social Enterprise / Impact Venture

Under current Australian Corporations law, incorporating for social impact is challenging.  The binary options at present are “for-profit” by issue of shares through a Pty Ltd company,  “not-for-profit” by membership through incorporation of a Limited company, which cannot distribute profit to members, or a cooperative structure in which members are productive contributors to a business model, and equal representives in the co-op, and a profit distribution to members is possible

There is also the possibility of a hybrid structure for those wanting to embed social impact into the DNA of their incorporation structure by having both a NFP entity and a for profit Pty Ltd entity and creating a relationship between the two.  We have prepared a free guide with links for download on some of these below.

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Founded in 2015, Perth based Impact Seed is a proud B-Corp and WA’s leading advisory for Impact Strategy, Impact Measurement, Social Enterprise Venture Building & Impact Investment.

We’re in the business of systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.. network connectors and builders, and developers of Australia’s first place-based impact investment fund.

We have three key areas of work – Impact Venture Consulting, Impact Measurement and Impact Investment Management; and work with corporates, not-for-profits, foundations, entrepreneurs and investors.

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