startgoodstuff
Everyone is welcome to contribute and see their ideas put into action with ownership of the ideas remaining entirely with the community!
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Rose Macdonald, Laurie Tuch, Crighton Nichols, Nick Agnew, Vero Houlet, Billy Huang, Christian Lee, Richard Pendergast, Phillip Roberts, Nikash Singh, Laura Barry, Elias Bizannes, Celine Massa, Jack Zhao.
By the end of 2011 we plan to launch StartGoodStuff - a free, online space to take your idea from concept to a full set of plans with the help of others.
In a nutshell, StartGoodStuff will offer a (minimum) five week process to take an idea from concept through to the point where its roll-out is definitely possible.
It works like this:
- 1 – Anyone posts an idea
- 2 – A team is crowd-sourced
- 3 – The team works on the project’s plans
- 4 – The plans are reviewed by a handpicked panel
- 5 – Project Australia provides successfully reviewed projects with up to $500 support, endorsements for immediate use and strong leads for the next phase of the project’s journey. The funding provided for successful projects will come from a social innovation fund, supported by revenue from the uThinc Speakers’ bureau and targeted public donations.
Ideas and the subsequent projects must be:
- - Not-for-profit
- - Actionable
- - Making use of existing assets, where possible
- - Addressing domestic social needs
- - In line with Project Australia’s Charter