An interview by Melanie Luxem with Donnie Maclurcan – Executive Director of Project Australia, and Raul Caceres – Project Manager at the Australian Social Innovation Exchange:

“People have realised how easy it is to collaborate with different people, and how easy it is to find things that were very difficult to find in the past. So, for example, before if you needed to find someone who was able to help you write some of the ‘terms and conditions ‘for a specific project, or just look at the legal aspects, then you had to start looking and visiting offices, looking around for people to help you out. But nowadays, you have so many networks where you can just go on and say ‘this is my project and I want to crowdsource the knowledge that I need to help my initiative’” – Raul Caceres

“…a social enterprise, as defined as an operating social innovation that has a part or component of its services that are trade-based, calls into mind that question about ‘sustainability’. The era of government grants propping up not-for-profits is, perhaps, coming to some kind of end over the next few decades, as not-for-profits realise not just the benefits of being detached from dependency to stakeholders, but also the advantages of having a diversified portfolio of income streams” – Donnie Maclurcan