Madame Monet Social Impact
Women over 55 are the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia — the compounding result of a lifetime of lower pay, unpaid care, domestic violence in its many forms, and a superannuation gap that widens rather than closes. Much of what put them there was never even recognised as harm while it was happening: financial control, coercion, decades of labour treated as simply what a woman does.
Madame Monet Social Impact answers that directly, through five enterprises working together. Each one turns a different overlooked skill or need into real income, real housing, real connection, and real work — and every bit of it belongs to the woman who earns it.
Five years earlier than the point where the data shows the crisis becomes visible, because prevention only works if it begins before the fall.
To an English ear, Monet sounds like money — a plain and unglamorous word wearing the clothes of one of the most celebrated painters who ever lived, because the women this exists for have rarely been offered that kind of reverence before.
A minimum of 20% of every dollar of profit goes straight back into the five, shaped to what each one actually needs rather than split evenly.
It buys the platform to advertise and to run a business. Ten dollars a month to run a business, and you cannot get fairer than that. Every dollar you earn on top of it stays with you — sell four hundred dollars of shortbread this month and you keep four hundred dollars.
Your ten runs your business, and belonging comes with it. Every woman under this roof, opened by any one platform fee, rather than the Nan Made community or the Matri Pair community on its own. Belonging here is settled the moment you arrive.
Esmeralda is paid for by the property owner. LOIS is paid for by employers and agencies. Women list free at both, and they always will.