Australia's only Social Enterprise specialising in e-learning

Your Not-for-Profit Guide focuses on creating engaging online courses specifically for the community sector. We’ll work with you, your subject matter experts and ours to develop meaningful, engaging and relevant training that transforms your community.

We’ve worked on many diverse small and large scale learning projects that have included the following products:

Animated videos using standard, or custom designed characters
Written manuals and tools such as checklists and DIY templates.
Webcasts and process/software explainers and walkthroughs
Whiteboard videos
Infographic videos
Presenter videos with animations
Interviews and case studies
Scenario based actor videos
Instructional ‘how-to’ videos

Your learning content can be delivered face-to-face; on-demand available 24/7; drip-fed over a series of days or weeks or instructor led. You can choose one delivery method, or a blended learning approach. The blended learning approach helps to reinforce workshop delivery learnings. You can use this to either inform and educate prior to a workshop, or reinforce the learnings post-workshop.

Your Not-for-Profit Guide has helped my organisation, Hunter Community Languages, to close the training and skills gap in the NSW Community Languages School Program, through providing us with much-needed quality, clear, accessible knowledge and skills in all areas of association governance.

Kara Matheson

NSW Community Languages Schools Program Education Officer

Here's how we help

Train your community sector, face-to-face; online or using blended learning for sustainable learning results. This can be one workshop at a time; in a learning program; in an online conference or through a series of learning experiences.
Develop an annual learning plan for your members, or community;
Share your community success stories through video or audio interviews and case studies;
Converting your wealth of information and knowledge either recorded or as your corporate intellectual property to develop engaging; relevant online learning;
Provide your community access to a comprehensive learning library and a regular series of webinars;
Develop or support a community of practice;
Utilise an accessible online learning management system with statistics.

We are the only e-learning provider and community sector relevant specialist in Australia who offers comprehensive and flexible end-to-end e-learning services to help you achieve your community learning goals.

Our delivery framework

We’ll work with you through a 6 stage delivery framework which incorporates:

Identifying: Your goals and your learners needs and pathways.
Measuring: Defining the project’s measures of learning success.
Planning: Results based planning focuses on how the learning content achieves the goals, needs and measures throughout the learning and post-learning touchpoints.
Alignment: Develop goals based learning curriculums and scripts.
Crafting: Content is carefully crafted to connect new messages with the learner’s knowledge in familiar contexts.
Translate: The post-learning plan focuses on reinforcing those new behaviours and translating learning into action.

These methodologies are embedded across each stage of the above 6 stage proprietary delivery framework, we call IMPACT.

Our delivery framework is underpinned with our proprietary learning pedagogy that considers 12 learning methodologies; human centred design; user experience mapping; accessibility and production methodologies to achieve learning that’s engaging and valuable for your learners.

Our expertise

Our team have demonstrated their expertise in delivering multiple learning projects over the last 20+ years, and have achieved the following qualifications:

Masters in Business Administration
Master of Arts in eLearning; organisational learning and technology;
Bachelor in Education Sciences,
Bachelor of Business in Public Relations
Diploma of Governance;
Graduate Diploma in Training, Design & Assessment;
Diploma in Human Development
Diploma in Vocational Education & Training;
Graduate Certificate in Digital Education.
Grad Cert in Facilitating and Managing eLearning;
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment;
Training and Assessment Education (TAE)
And numerous industry professional development courses and certificates such as micro-learning; online learning; human centered design; user experience design and many more.

Why use our Learning Management System

An LMS is used to deliver training and enhance the learning process.

There are many benefits of using an LMS to deliver online training over simply adding content to a web page.

An LMS streamlines the training process to:

Facilitates students to self enrol in courses
Track students through courses
Records the student’s progress
Provide interactive elements like quizzes and assignments.
Enables drip-fed lessons, linear or open course progression
Provide badges or certificates of achievement or completion

Inside view of our Learning Management System

Ways we can work together

We can deliver your training in a number of ways, from traditional workshops supported with online learning, to 100% online.

We’ll work with you to select the most appropriate delivery method for the subject matter and learner to achieve your objectives.

Learning options

We understand that not every organisation’s objectives and student learning types are the same.That’s why we offer a range of learning options for you, tailored to your needs. Not just the regular ‘cookie cutter’ options.

Distance Learning
Online course creation
Webinar training
Virtual conferences
Instructor led courses
Competency based training
Engaging and meaningful discussions

Why not just do it yourself?

These days most people have access to a video camera of some sort and it is relatively easy to upload videos to Youtube or embed them into a website page.

But that is just the easy part. Handling the complexities of project management and technical know-how to operate a learning management system and technology may not be for you.

Then there is:

Storyboarding
Instructional design
Scene changes
Reducing cognitive load
Providing images
Adding interactives
File management
Setting milestones
Video platform settings
Accessibility including captioning, colour contrasting, font size and types etc.
Lighting
Sound
Video editing

But then there’s:

No accreditation
No checking certificates
No student reporting

Social Traders Certification

As a social enterprise, we offer a range of professional e-learning products and 100% of profits generated are reinvested to develop on-demand learning content for the sector. It’s a win-win for everyone.

And being a regional SME, working with us will also help your organisation achieve its social and economic procurement objectives. You’ll also find us on the Social Traders marketplace and other government procurement listing sites.

We are an approved Government provider, having worked with local, state and federal agencies, and we comply with all relevant government policies, legislation and regulations.

We’ve worked with state and national not-for-profit industry associations and philanthropic organisations to achieve their community learning objectives.

You can also measure the effectiveness of learning using our proprietary Social Return on Investment methodology, developed in partnership with the University of New South Wales.

Our theory of change is mapped to achievements across 13 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This includes the achievement of strong results in

#4: Quality Education;

#5 Gender equality;

#8 Decent work and economic growth and

#16 Peace, justice and strong institutions.

We also contribute to an additional 9 goals through outcomes across our team; our enterprise, partners and suppliers and social impact measures.