Indigenous Business Month 2022 Awards

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In 2022, Indigenous Business Month (IBM) is continuing offering four awards to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses to their community and to Australian society.

The Indigenous Business Month Awards will showcase the outstanding achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and provides identifiable national and local role models to inspire all Australians.

The Indigenous Business Month Awards are:

I2I Award
Indigenous businesses buying from and/or supplying to fellow Indigenous businesses build an interconnected and strong Indigenous business sector by supporting each other. Instances of mentoring and peer-to-peer support or development of new ventures and/or initiatives are encouraged in this category.

This award celebrates the commitment by Indigenous businesses to strengthen and grow our sector through trading and working together.

Criteria
- Number of Indigenous businesses in supply chain
- Percentage of expenditure with other Indigenous businesses
- Relationships/testimonials from those Indigenous businesses in your supply chain
- Exemplar instances of mentoring, peer-to-peer support
- Shared development of new ventures and/or initiatives to support each other’s business

Indigenous Digital Inventiveness award
Indigenous digital inventiveness is maturing in Australia from services organisations, connecting communities to digital expression and digital enterprises.

This award celebrates the intersection between cultural creativity, business nous and technology.

Criteria
- An innovative digital product/service proposition that solves customer problem
- Uses technology to take their business to the next level
- Leverages technology to connect with customers, optimise operations and foster collaboration

Indigenous ingenuity award
Indigenous business has a role to play in Indigenous Australia by bringing a business model to challenging community issues.

This award celebrates an Indigenous business who is working hard to solve challenges in and with Indigenous community.

Criteria
- An innovative product/service proposition that solves problems in Indigenous communities
- Uses ingenuity to take their business to the next level
- Makes a measurable impact on Indigenous communities
- Relationships/testimonials from those Indigenous communities the business is playing a part in

Regional Indigenous Business Award
Indigenous regional businesses contribute in very impactful ways to the economy and to the local community in which they are based.

This award celebrates Indigenous regional businesses: their vision, their business savvy and their local contributions.

Criteria
- Demonstrate the region and local town/community located in
- Contribution of product/service to regional economy
- Relationships and testimonials from the town/local community in which the business is located

The IBM Awards announcements will be made in late October.

Award entries close: Midnight 25 September 2022. Entries after this time will not be accepted.

Application Instructions
Please complete the form to the best of your knowledge/ability:

Social media and website links (where available) allow us to cross promote your business if successful in receiving an award and to direct any interested stakeholders to your business.
Provision of a quality portrait image of yourself and/or all business owners allows us to use this in promotional materials (social media / website) if successful. If you don't have one, ask someone to take a photo in a well lit location of shoulders up.
Inclusion of Traditional Country on which you operate enables us to acknowledge place names in communications (where possible).
Award winners will be asked to complete a short 1 minute video talking to how this award relates to the work they do.