This report captures insights from First Nations business leaders, social enterprise founders, and finance professionals across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It documents the lived experiences of those navigating funding systems and identifies both the barriers to, and opportunities for, achieving economic self-determination through appropriately resourced First Nations enterprise.
The aim is to contribute to sector-wide learning and to advocate for systemic change in how funding flows to First Nations-led initiatives.
This learning community was commissioned by Social Enterprise Australia as part of the Australian Government’s Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) to help build sector capability and grow social impact.