The Mill House is the Canberra Region's first dedicated social enterprise accelerator. It supports both ‘for-profit’ and ‘not-for-profit’ social ventures; enabling them to work side-by-side challenging, collaborating, and supporting each other in their mutual aims of sustainable and scalable social change. Our mission is to grow a high-quality pipeline of investible and scalable social ventures in the ACT and Region for corporate, foundation and individual social impact investors creating a more inclusive economy. Can You Really Accelerate Social Impact? An accelerator program, like our flagship GRIST program, is a concept borrowed from technology start-up incubation and investment. These intensive forms of entrepreneurial education and mentoring are well-proven to work for traditional technology-enabled start-up companies. However, applying the concept to social ventures is not without risk. That risk is why the Mill House Venture exists. We work hard on both your business and your social impact model to reduce the risk for people who want to support the venture. If the impact model isn’t also tested during acceleration, the thing that gets ‘accelerated’ is an ‘impact fable’ a story about how things should work. A great business plan will not save a flawed impact model (and vice versa). The Mill House Ventures assists for-purpose entrepreneurs in Canberra and the region to apply iterative rigour to both their business and social impact models.