Where The Idea Came From
In September 2006, a group of passionate, young Australians began planning a series of discussions that would engage people around the country in sharing ideas and plans about how we can create a brighter, Australian future.
From the initial National night of discussions, attended by over 100 people across all states and territories, a growing sense emerged that people wanted alternative, meaningful avenues and platforms to engage around important social issues. Out of these discussions, Project Australia organically emerged, its direction constantly shaped by the input of people and communities around the country. The focus, quite quickly, became action in the field of ’social innovation’, described by some as:
‘innovative activities and services that are motivated by the goal of meeting a social need and that are predominantly developed and diffused through organisations whose primary purposes are social’.
Since 2006, Project Australia has helped facilitate two more Nationwide discussion nights, has assisted numerous social innovators with their work from a consulting perspective, held additional fundraising trivia nights and music nights and provided support for an autonomous, sister-initiative: Project Kenya (www.projectkenya.or.ke).
Project Australia has engaged more than 200 people in some form of voluntary capacity to carry out it’s offering and build it;s purpose.
