Support to do more good
Get prepared to do even more good. Communicate your impact, grow with confidence, and be ready for the next step, with support from Sefa.
How we can support you to do more good
Support for impact organisations
One-on-one guidance, practical tools, confidence to grow without compromising on your mission.
Most organisations access our services by joining a program or through funding from partners – such as intermediaries, peak bodies or philanthropy – who engage us to support the organisations they back.
Support for funders and partners
We work with intermediaries, peak bodies, government and philanthropy to design and deliver programs that strengthen the organisations you back.
This could mean building their impact strategy, strengthening the business and financial model or supporting grantees become investees when the time is right.
Our support and advisory services
Impact clarity
Make your impact story clear and build practical ways to track results.
- Theory of Change
- Impact measurement frameworks
- Data collection and reporting
- Research and analysis
Strong foundations
Build the governance, processes and systems that give your board, and your partners, confidence.
- Organisational resilience
- Good governance
- Review of finances and operations
People and planning
Plan the roles and support you’ll need as you grow.
- Team and resourcing plans
- Skills mapping
- Specialist support planning
- Workshop facilitation
Money matters
Put practical budgeting and forecasts in place so you can make decisions with confidence.
- Financial management
- Cash flow and budgeting
- Financial modelling and forecasting
Strategy and execution
Set a clear direction and sequence the steps that move you forward.
- Strategy development
- Growth roadmaps
- Customer testing
- Execution planning and support
Collaboration and partnerships
Shape the relationships that unlock opportunities and help you deliver even more impact.
- Market checks
- Sector engagement
- Funder alignment
Investment readiness
Tailored support to prepare for funding and investment without compromising on your mission.
- Investment readiness programs
- Making your case for funding
Why our partners choose to have Sefa by their side
$160 million+
Expert, tailored support
More than a decade
Current support and advisory programs
If you’re an impact-led organisation, you’ll usually access our support by joining a funded program. Explore what’s currently available or speak to your funder about opportunities...
How our support makes a difference...
We are now more confident in our model, our structure, our income streams, our ability to communicate ourselves, our future aspirations and we are now going to start building that dream rather than just talking about it.
We needed help to get clarity around what we wanted to achieve – and how to measure it tangibly. Sefa’s guidance gave us the confidence and tools to grow stronger and keep our mission front and centre.
The program gave me the language of the social enterprise field that has significantly enhanced my capacity to advocate effectively – to customers, donors, funding providers, media and politicians.
Are you a funder or partner?
Learn more about how we design programs with intermediaries, peak bodies, government and philanthropic partners to strengthen the organisations you back.
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FAQs
No, you do not need to be Social Traders certified or People and Planet First verified for us to be able to work with you. We work with impact-led organisations regardless of their legal structure. They can be for profit and not for profit.
If you’re just starting out and don’t yet have a trading history, Sefa may not be the right fit straight away – unless we have any current programs that are designed for early-stage enterprises. At this point, incubator or accelerator programs could be a better option for you to help you shape your idea, test your model and strengthen your value proposition.
When you’ve built some trading history and have more clarity on your mission and impact, that’s when Sefa can step in – to help you refine your business, build confidence and get ready to achieve sustainable and demonstratable impact.
Yes. Support from Sefa isn’t just about the loans we provide. Most impact-led organisations will need some form of external finance along the way, and we can help you get ready to secure and use it. Our role is to make sure you feel confident, prepared and able to use that finance well to do more good.
We do not write grant proposals for our clients. However, we are often engaged to support the development of compelling pitch decks which clearly articulate a justifiable ask and the relationship between that ask and the impact that is created. These pitch decks can be used to engage with philanthropic funders, impact investors, government funding agencies and in community.
One-on-one engagements with Sefa are tailored your needs. We work closely with your leadership team to understand where we can add the most value – and to make sure the capability we build stays with your organisation long after our work is done.
We agree a clear scope and timeline, then deliver support in the way that works best – on site, virtually or through workshops. A typical engagement spans 3–5 months and may cover areas like impact strategy, operating and financing models, and governance, including Board support.
Yes! We are intermediaries which means that we work with organisations on both the supply and demand side of the market. Because of this, we understand the needs and expectations of both, and can play a connecting role. We are members of the relevant social enterprise peak bodies, we regularly contribute at key industry meetings and conferences, we work closely with government and philanthropy to influence system-level change and we are commissioned to undertake research and contribute to the development of thought leadership in the sector.