35 min

2. Kirrily Graham So You Want to Make a Difference?

    • Self-Improvement

Kirrily Graham talks with us about her personal and professional journey that ultimately led her to build her own social enterprise that connects small businesses to charities.

Kirrily believes that cultivating self awareness though personal development is an important step to really understanding how you can make a difference in a way that is meaningful to you.

She also shares how the journey off the fence is not necessarily a simple jump but one that involves a lot of splinters!


About Kirrily Graham

Kirrily has over 20 years of experience in the charity & social impact sector.

Her combined experience of working in the not-for-profit industry, running her own small to medium-size enterprise in training and development, as well as working successfully in the corporate sector in B2B Business Development, naturally led her to create Dovetail Social Enterprises.

Kirrily and the Dovetail team help to address the key challenges for both grass-root charities, who are unable to grow their capacity without financial investment, and small to medium size businesses who really want to make a social impact, but don’t quite know where to start.

For more information on Dovetail:

www.dovetailsocialenterprises.com.au


Resources:

Ted Talk by Dan Pallotta – The way we think about charity is dead wrong

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong

Further Reading:

Carolyn Butler-Madden, Path to Purpose: How to use cause marketing to build a more meaningful and profitable brand, 2017

Carolyn Butler-Madden, For Love and Money: How to profit with purpose and grow a business with love, 2021

Peter Baines, Doing Good By Doing Good: Why Creating Shared Value is the Key to Powering Business Growth and Innovation, 2014


ASENA – Alliance of Social Enterprise Networks of Australia

The list of all Social Enterprise Networks across Australia

https://www.asena.org.au


Actions:

Greater self awareness through personal development

Choose something you love and follow that path

Start small

Kirrily Graham talks with us about her personal and professional journey that ultimately led her to build her own social enterprise that connects small businesses to charities.

Kirrily believes that cultivating self awareness though personal development is an important step to really understanding how you can make a difference in a way that is meaningful to you.

She also shares how the journey off the fence is not necessarily a simple jump but one that involves a lot of splinters!


About Kirrily Graham

Kirrily has over 20 years of experience in the charity & social impact sector.

Her combined experience of working in the not-for-profit industry, running her own small to medium-size enterprise in training and development, as well as working successfully in the corporate sector in B2B Business Development, naturally led her to create Dovetail Social Enterprises.

Kirrily and the Dovetail team help to address the key challenges for both grass-root charities, who are unable to grow their capacity without financial investment, and small to medium size businesses who really want to make a social impact, but don’t quite know where to start.

For more information on Dovetail:

www.dovetailsocialenterprises.com.au


Resources:

Ted Talk by Dan Pallotta – The way we think about charity is dead wrong

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong

Further Reading:

Carolyn Butler-Madden, Path to Purpose: How to use cause marketing to build a more meaningful and profitable brand, 2017

Carolyn Butler-Madden, For Love and Money: How to profit with purpose and grow a business with love, 2021

Peter Baines, Doing Good By Doing Good: Why Creating Shared Value is the Key to Powering Business Growth and Innovation, 2014


ASENA – Alliance of Social Enterprise Networks of Australia

The list of all Social Enterprise Networks across Australia

https://www.asena.org.au


Actions:

Greater self awareness through personal development

Choose something you love and follow that path

Start small

35 min