One Roof Women
One Roof Women is a women-focused coworking and business-support organisation founded by former corporate lawyer Sheree Rubinstein and strategist Gianna Wurzl. Its model combined shared workspaces with business and start-up events, workshops, and access to services including legal, financial, fundraising, and communications support.
One Roof established coworking spaces in Melbourne and Los Angeles and in 2015 expanded to include a women's coworking space in Sydney founded by Catriona Wallace. In 2016, it took over a coworking and office space in Southbank, Melbourne.
History
One Roof Women was founded by a former corporate lawyer[1] Sheree Rubinstein, and US-based strategist Gianna Wurzl.[2][3] In 2015, after establishing coworking spaces in Melbourne and Los Angeles, Rubinstein and Wurzl incorporated a Sydney women's coworking space, founded by Catriona Wallace.[4]
The One Roof model first looked at converting under-utilized physical spaces to transform them into shared workspaces for women.[5][6] Its services included business and start-up events and workshops, yoga and meditation classes, and access to legal, finance, fundraising, and communications services.[6][7]
In April 2016, One Roof took over space in Southbank, containing co-working and office spaces. One Roof's charity partner was SHE, run by Melbourne-based non-profit YGAP, which operated accelerator programs in Kenya, South Africa, and Australia.[8][9]
References
- ↑ "BASF Grant" (PDF).
- ↑ "RAISING THE CO-WORKING STANDARD". Business News Australia. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ↑ Zhao, Helen (4 January 2017). "From cannabis startups to surfers: Coworking spaces go more niche as the shared office market explodes". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ↑ "A tech hub of one's own: Australia's first space for female-led tech start-ups". Financial Review. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ↑ "The top 10 moments for Australian women in tech in 2015 - SmartCompany". SmartCompany. 4 January 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- 1 2 "Women to co-work under One Roof". The Australian (Website). Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Australia. 27 October 2015. p. 1. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ↑ "Meet the female entrepreneurs creating new ways to connect". The Weekly Review. 23 August 2016. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ↑ "Women to co-work under One Roof". 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ↑ "Los Angeles-Melbourne startup community unites with poverty-fighting accelerator to put more women in front of investors - SmartCompany". SmartCompany. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2017.