Welcome to Australia's first guidebook for Social Investors.   This guide is designed to connect you, the emerging philanthropist, with projects that offer opportunities for transformational social change.
 
Greenstone Group created this guide because we heard frequently in our work as philanthropy advisors to individual donors and Prescribed Private Funds (PPFs) that people would give more and more often if only they could find 'good' projects.
 
What is a good project?
 
To donors it can mean many things depending on the passions and the vision the donor has for their philanthropic contribution.
 
To the non profit partners in this guide, it means being able to extend work that is proving to make a difference or it means being able to seed fund an idea that represents a new pathway to an old problem. It can also mean funding for the ability to build capacity in their organisation.
 
The Social Investment Guide aims to bring people together to explore this question of what is a good project.  It aims to connect emerging philanthropists with non profits in partnership.  It hopes to offer ways for philanthropists to collaborate through co-funding of projects.  It provides opportunities for learning through the review and evaluation process we have integrated into the guide.
 
Most of all, it wishes to offer opportunities for donors to engage more meaningfully with the complexity and the joy of creating social change.
 
 
 
--  About Social Investment
 
--  Who is a Social Investor?
 
--  Social Investment Guide
 
--  How to Invest
 
--  Video: Philanthropists partnering with Indigenous peoples