Enabled.vip

Honoraria for volunteers with disability and NDIS consultant fees

Honoraria for volunteers with disability and NDIS consultant fees

If successful, we will use the grant funds to pay a small honoraria to the volunteers with the platform with lived experience. Many members of the team are working as unpaid volunteers, some for as long as three years. We would like to be able to pay them as small recognition for their important contribution ...

GOAL

$12,000

Australia > National / Multi-state > Metro and Regional
09/01/2024 > 31/12/2024

Field of Interest

  • Community and economic development
  • Social inclusion and justice

Target Population

  • People with a disability, illness or disease
  • People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
Enabled.vip Enabled.vip

Enabled.vip is a charitable, novel and national online capacity-building service to assist Australians with disability to establish some form of business (whether a small business, a gig-based service or a monetised hobby/craft). We are a disability led and guided not-for-profit disability service. The majority of the team have lived experience. The rest are family members, carers or old friends of Australians with disability. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ee3IvT3PHA and https://www.linkedin.com/company/enabledvip for more.

We offer a disruptive alternative to the national conversation about disability and disability employment in Australia.

Too often, Australians with disability are expected to give up their expertise, insight and time for free. This is disrespectful and unjust. “Can I pick your brains over coffee?” is unacceptable. This is something that we have been assisting our participants to deal with.

Project Summary

If successful, we will use the grant funds to pay a small honoraria to the volunteers with the platform with lived experience. Many members of the team are working as unpaid volunteers, some for as long as three years. We would like to be able to pay them as small recognition for their important contribution to the platform. Our aspiration is that in the near future the platform will be able to make such payments ourselves.

We strive to ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to the precept, “nothing about us, without us.”

For the last few years, the platform has used funds contributed by our volunteers to pay a highly respective Australian NDIS consultant. We are hoping to use some funding to pay this consultant.

This will support us in scaling as a national disability-led NDIS disability service. The funding will support us during a time while we build to be a self-sufficient community service.

We envisage a future where Australian would-be entrepreneurs with disability are celebrated and supported as future business leaders, tax contributors and employers.

It is time for disruptive and constructive change to the national conversation about disability and disability employment in Australia!

Project Outcomes

The primary outcome is that after about 90 days paid engagement, participants will have made substantive progress towards establishing their business. Evidenced by registering an ABN, having necessary permits in place, being registered as a business, having PI/PL insurance, and started generating revenue. The secondary outcome is after 90 days participants will see at least a 20% increase in dignity, social engagement and quality of life. A longitudinal tool will be used to track outcomes and progress for individuals, as well as for the platform as a whole. The tool will be developed for us by QUT. This tool will be used for individual participant case management and also to inform strategic development for the platform and to inform our planning. Assisting some of the most financially vulnerable Australians pursue financial independence is obviously a worthy mission, but the anticipated psychosocial benefits are valuable as well.

This should benefit individuals with disability, their families and communities, as well as the wider Australian society and economy. Our short-term goal is to engage with 400 paying participants by the end of 2024, 1000 participants by the end of 2026 and then scale towards 1.9 million Australians working aged with disability. Our aspiration is to be a disruptive and constructive change to the national conversation about disability and disability workforce engagement in Australia. We envisage a future where Australian would-be entrepreneurs with disability are celebrated and supported as future business leaders, tax contributors and employers.

Budget Breakdown

TOTAL BUDGET: $138,200
FUNDING
Funding source Amount
Fiverr – Philanthropic (confirmed) $27,000
DESBT – Grant (confirmed) $29,000
The Funding Network - Philanthropic (confirmed) $21,000
Outcomes Australia - Philanthropic (confirmed) $12,800
AHRECS - Philanthropic (confirmed) $7,000
Samford and Pine Rivers Community Fund – Philanthropic (confirmed) $3,500
Moreton Shire Council funding – Grant (confirmed) $3,500
Personal contributions - Philanthropic (confirmed) $34,400
Funding gap (unconfirmed) $12,000
EXPENSES
Expense item Amount
Previously purchased items $126,200
Honoraria $10,000
Consultant fees $2,000

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