Good Return enables women and their families to access opportunity and build financial security.
This giving season, help build her financial confidence and safety.
As we come towards the end of 2024, let’s acknowledge it’s been a big year of overwhelming issues.
At Good Return, we help vulnerable women and their families protect themselves from the things that can happen around them by learning to build a financial safety net.
Latest news from Good Return
Your support = real impact
Since our beginnings in 2004, we have reached thousands of women and their families:
3,509,709
people reached through our money safety campaigns
69,360
vulnerable people have boosted their financial skills with our training
$5.05m
in loans to women entrepreneurs with our Impact Investment Fund
10,574
financial services staff trained in social inclusion
68,742
Micro-entrepreneurs using our My Money Tracker app to track expenses and boost savings
Meet the people we work with
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Jodie | Entrepreneur
Jodie is a member of the business club for Indigenous Kimberley women - Maganda Makers. “Just being part of something that is growing is very exciting”.
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Jemimiah | Microentrepreneur
Through our microloan program, Jemimiah has used a loan to build her horticulture business in Fiji.
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Rattana | Entrepreneur
Rattana accessed a responsible loan and business training and now trains other people with a disability in financial capability.
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Imas | SME owner
Imas has built her chili farming business with the help of our Impact Investment program. She now employs more women from her region.
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Hasta | Farmer
After taking part in our financial capability training, Hasta from Nepal was confident to plan and grow her pig farming business.
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Lovelyn | Learner
Lovelyn from the Solomon Islands recently completed our financial capability training. “It is important that we learn how save to help improve our families’ lives and our community.”
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Ly Linna, financial capability coach
Ly is an accountant living with polio and has recently become a Good Return coach in financial capability.
What we do
Good Return is working to end poverty through sustainable change. Our focus is providing responsible finance to local entrepreneurs, as well as education and business training to women and other excluded groups to build confidence and financial capability. The result is a growing generation of empowered entrepreneurs, taking control of their finances, their livelihoods and their futures.
Access to finance
Our access to finance program provides a new start, or much-needed boost to a small business in our region. Our Impact Investment fund is the catalyst to boosting socially-driven SMEs.
Financial capability
Using a behaviour change approach, we provide education in money management and business skills to empower low income women and the financially excluded.
Responsible finance
Financial inclusion starts within the sector, and we use our innovative e-learning platform RIF Academy and strategic partnerships to build more inclusive financial practices and services.
Indigenous entrepreneurs
An Indigenous-led program to guide, nurture and upskill emerging women entrepreneurs in the Kimberley region of Australia.
Invest in Good
By supporting our work, you are helping women and their families access opportunity and build financial security.
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