JULIA SUH

Small Shift is a social enterprise that trains and inspires communities to create beautiful, meaningful and unique public spaces in their neighbourhood. DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) projects are used as a vehicle to build community resilience, social trust and employment pathways.

1. Soft entry to employment: Small Shift hires people who face tough challenges getting jobs for various reasons including mental illness, injury, disability, trauma, social capital, digital illiteracy and lack of formal education. Small Shift’s crew are upskilled, mentored, paid and supported to lead.
2. Neighbours working together: locals of different backgrounds and abilities volunteer to deliver a DIO project together, and build a strong social network in their neighbourhood.

Building a sense of community costs property developers and governments hundreds of thousands of dollars for each development. We invite them to invest these resources differently, in a more sustainable, impactful and measurable way. Paper Plain is a human-centric digital platform that on-boards residents and helps them build a strong community through community-driven activities; and enables developers and governments to create better places with live data and insights.

Paper Plain is a property tech startup backed by BlueChilli and Stockland that responds to its Stockland Accelerator brief “How can we create thriving communities with better health, wellbeing and productivity outcomes?” It is one of 11 startups selected out of 500+ applicants to develop the idea and MVP by mid-2019.