Hybrid Enterprise Organisations - a workshop: recalibrating the ‘social enterprise’ equation

CCA invites members to attend a workshop and “join the conversation” to consider how hybrid enterprise strategies can open up new opportunities for your organisation.

This session is a collaboration with UTS (University of Technology Sydney) Centre for Business and Social Innovation researchers and the Wayside Chapel. It is designed to familiarise you with the Hybrid Organisation concept and give you an opportunity to learn about the practitioner’s perspective told through a Wayside Chapel case study of developing a hybrid enterprise, the Heart Cafe.

During the workshop you will understand how the Wayside Chapel has benefitted from a Hybrid enterprise approach and how they have managed tensions along the way.

The workshop will also place community-based enterprises into context through a panel discussion of CCA members that run social enterprises, including JobQuest, New Futures Training (Melbourne) and Jesuit Social Services.

Workshop purpose: This workshop will enable participants to:

1. understand the opportunities of a hybrid enterprise model, especially in regard to mission effectiveness, social impact and alternative revenue streams;
2. identify the challenges of managing a hybrid enterprise, especially in regard to mission, staffing, organisational structure and stakeholder expectations; and
3. determine how they might develop a hybrid enterprise strategy.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for any CCA member staff or board director with responsibility for – or interest in – their organisation’s business development, strategic planning, service program design or financial sustainability. This could include CEOs, CFOs, VET managers, senior program and business development managers, chairs and other board directors, and other senior staff members.

Tentative workshop schedule

• Why hybrids?
• A spectrum of hybrid forms, including a sample of CCA member social enterprise structures
• Features of managing hybrids – beneficial tensions
• Developing a hybrid enterprise strategy for your organisation

More information

Contact CCA on tel (02) 9233 3634 or via email.