Best CSR Innovation Award and the Most Innovative Government, Education & Not-for-profit Company AFR Awards Winner

Innovation is part of our DNA at Orange Sky and continues to be the driving force behind our five year strategy. Our target is to triple our impact by 2025 whilst exploring new and improved ways to help more people in the community doing it tough.

In Orange Sky's early days, Nic and Lucas pushed the limits to build the world's first laundry van ‘Sudsy’. Every day since then, we've strived to think outside the box to reach more people in areas and ways we never could have before; from our expansion into mobile showers, to building a SaaS platform that supports other not-for-profits to manage their volunteer operations, and innovative engineering of a clothes dryer that reduces energy consumption by up to 80%.

Innovation has been a core part of our mission since the very beginning, and we're incredibly proud to be recognised as a leader in this space. Most recently, Orange Sky was awarded Best CSR Innovation Award and the Most Innovative Government, Education & Not-for-profit Company by The Australian Financial Review and the Australian Good Design Award Winner Accolade in the Social Impact category for outstanding design and innovation. We have strong core values, with 'giving things a crack' embedded in everything we do. Innovation shows up not only via our Imagination and Innovation team, but is encouraged across the organisation, presenting many learning and development opportunities internally and exciting partnership opportunities with our supporters.  

With strong, simple principles, vision and methodology we are excited to discover the next positive connection with Orange Sky. Learn more about Team Delta and our latest innovations below. 

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OUR PROJECTS

Remote Community Ventures
Remote Vehicle 3.0
Volaby
Vehicle Upgrades
Laundromat of the Future
The Waru Dryer
Melbourne St Laundromat

WHAT IS TEAM DELTA?

What does Team Delta mean?
Team ‘Delta’ – meaning an alternative form of change – is about leaning into our capacity to innovate and giving things a go that have potential to make a difference.

Who makes up Team Delta?
Team Delta is run by one of our co-founders, Nicholas Marchesi – Chief Delta Officer (CDO), and comprises of a small team of developers, engineers and big thinkers and supported by appropriate contractors for relevant projects.

When was Team Delta established?
June 2020 – when we set out our five-year plan to 2025!

Why was Team Delta established?
To enable the ideation, testing and development of new projects with the goal of tripling our impact by helping 40,000 people experiencing homelessness by 2025.

Will this substitute or ‘take over’ the outreach work Orange Sky traditionally does?
Absolutely not! Team Delta’s goal is only to enrich and improve Orange Sky’s core mission of ‘Positively Connecting Communities’ through laundry/shower services and non-judgemental conversation.

When will we learn more about Team Delta’s projects?
All Delta projects go through a rigorous and considerate process to ensure they are the best use of our resources and most likely to help Orange Sky scale their impact to 40,000 people by 2025.

Who can I speak to for more information?
Click the button at the bottom of this page to send us a message and one of the team will get back to you as soon as we can!

"When people think of Orange Sky, they think of a crazy idea that was given a go. We didn't know the budget, impact or scalability in 2014 but we sure are thankful we 'gave it a go'. 

Our dream with Team Delta is to give some things a go that we think we should or could do. With strong, simple principles, vision and methodology we are excited to discover the next positive connection."

Nicholas Marchesi

Co-Founder and Chief Delta Officer

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