Social Traders Pitchfest
summary
Eight social startups deliver 90 seconds each to show concrete plans and early traction: a quarter‑acre Carlton urban farm for migrant employment; Life Experience runs a City of Melbourne pilot and has one paying customer; Dinner on the Table gifted 211 dinners (about 743 adult portions) in 2015; Long Street Coffee trains five asylum seekers with two placed in jobs; PVBS has donated $235,000 to educate 1,750 children; Thai Street plans food trucks; Homeless Help seeks $47–65k to secure its first option; Field Trip pays 18–24 year olds to run youth programs.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:06What is social enterprise
- 3:38Pitchfest format and rules
- 9:57Brie McGilligan deepening the roots
- 14:58Anna Dodson life experience
- 20:42Rachel Golding dinner on the table
- 27:09Jane Marx Long Street Cafe
- 34:55Sam Quinlan Tha Street
- 39:33Eric Agman PVBS
- 44:30Richard van Orot homeless health project
- 50:13Paul Cooperman the field trip
- 57:19Judges deliberation and awards
- 1:03:22Winners announcement and closing
