After more than 25 years dedicated to local community development we started to receive invitations to speak at mining conferences. Mining companies in Australia, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador invited us to share with them our approach of community development and to train their personnel. They were speaking in terms of "social license" or "triple bottom line" which is critical to sustainable cooperation between mining groups and communities. We soon realised that there was a unique opportunity to combine the success of Sirolli’s community development and maintaining the mines’ social licence to operate.

Our approach is called Enterprise Facilitation(R) which is based on the belief that, in every community, there are people who wish to feed their families by doing beautifully what they love to do. We provide such people with a competent, confidential and free service that helps them establish rewarding and long lasting enterprises.

Using our approach, mining companies have become involved in the expansion and diversification of the local economy and do so by responding to passion of the local people who are totally committed to the success of their venture.

Enterprise Facilitation diversifies the economy and leaves behind a legacy of entrepreneurial know how that can be applied equally to business and social enterprises.