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Submitted 26 Aug 2010 Accountability is usually assumed to be an unmitigated good for Third Sector organisations - the more the better. While there are some benefits from externally imposed accountability requirements, they can also be counterproductive - undermining responsibility and leading to what we have coined as 'funder capture'. A typology of 'funder capture' is presented, suggesting some of its more subtle forms are likely to be the most insidious. Legalistic, contractual accountability is likely to be the least effective, and can be highly counterproductive to high levels of responsibility. A pathway away from narrow accountability towards a broader responsibility is proposed, building on Kearns (1996) four dimensions of accountability.
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Submitted 25 Aug 2010 While a personal submission on the Draft Relationship Agreement proposed for Aotearoa New Zealand (June 2010), the Background section provides a brief summary of the various key developments over the last decade in working to strengthen relationships between Government and the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector in this country. Analysis in the submission concludes that the proposed Draft Agreement takes us no further than the (then) Government's 2001 Statement of Intentions, and in some important respects is a step backwards. It also fails to address any of the 15 proposals arising from the 2009 Review of the 2001 Statement.
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Submitted 25 Aug 2010 The briefing draws together in summary form, selected verbatim extracts from various Government and community organisation briefing documents listed in the paper. Collated to inform Todd Foundation’s strategic planning process in 2010, the paper focuses on the key areas of the Foundation’s interest in the well-being of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Further information about the Foundation, its work and the outcomes of the strategic planning process are available at http://www.toddfoundation.org.nz/publications-and-learning/
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Submitted 25 Aug 2010 An overview of civil society organisations and the concepts of 'civil society' and 'social capital' in Australia and New Zealand research, politics and wider usage. Similarities and differences between the two countries are noted, and basic descriptive data are also provided on the size and scope of civil society organisations in the two countries, along with some indicators of citizen engagement.
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Submitted 24 Aug 2010 New Zealand organisations that are engaged in community development practice to empower women are disadvantaged under neo-liberal and ‘third way’ style policies of the New Zealand Government. Recent research (Aimers & Walker 2008 & 2009) has shown that community development work in New Zealand has been marginalised as a result of partnering with government, due in part to a focus on the funding of service provision to meet government priorities rather than projects that respond directly to community felt needs. Community development is further disadvantaged by the universalising of social policy and inadequate mainstreaming of gender issues that has suppressed rather than advanced the place of women in community development. This article examines the effects of New Zealand’s third way style policies on women’s community development, using examples from two women’s organisations, PACIFICA and the YWCA.
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Submitted 24 Aug 2010 "Please do a mock upload to test the uplaoding processing and report back to us on it."
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Submitted 3 Aug 2010 Funding and financial management are critical issues for the notforprofit
sector. Funding is
limited, competitively sought, and differences in funders’ and organisations’ expectations and needs
can cause dysfunction. Sport is an important segment of the notforprofit
sector in New Zealand
society. Sports clubs develop infrastructure to provide formal opportunities for teams, pairs or other
groupings to play indoor and/or outdoor sport. These clubs offer opportunities for exercise and the
building of social capital for healthy and vibrant communities. However, there is a lack of local
and current research about the manner in which notforprofit
sports organisations finance the
infrastructure (and particularly assets) which are necessary for their operation.
The objective of this research was to assess the impact of governors’ financing choices on the
sustainability of New Zealand’s sports organisations through empirical research into funding
practices. This research was also
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Submitted 29 Jun 2010 This summary report provides baseline data for understanding the sector and the role and importance of those managing volunteers. It is a snapshot. It tells us who are managing volunteers, what their role involves, how they feel about their role overall, their broad training needs, and where they see themselves in the future.
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Submitted 25 Jun 2010 Responses from over 1700 volunteers in four charities and six sporting organisations from Wellington and Christchurch were received to a confidential mail survey. Two very different profiles emerged when the data was analysed. The typical charity volunteer was female, aged 56+, retired, earning ,000 per year, with no children at home. The typical sporting volunteer was male, aged 36 - 55, employed full time, earning over ,000 per year with an average of three children at home.
While the profiles were different, their volunteering histories, what motivates them to volunteer and satisfaction with current volunteering were quite similar. Overall, the average length of service of respondents was 8.5 years with more than 80% volunteering on a regular basis. Almost 70% of those responding volunteered for other organisations, be they other charities or sporting organisations or schools, clubs and special interest groups.
Both charity and sport volunteers expressed similar reaso
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Submitted 23 Jun 2010 Volunteer managers/coordinators’ roles are of central importance to promoting and enhancing volunteerism, yet little is known about these workers: who they are, what they do, or how their effectiveness could be enhanced. With the support of Volunteering New Zealand, and funded by a grant from the Tindall Foundation, we conducted an online survey of New Zealand’s volunteer managers/coordinators across the community, voluntary sector and public sectors. The research profiled managers, identified their challenges and training needs, and was benchmarked against overseas data. By identifying training needs and career paths, and developing a database of volunteer management professionals, this will build Third Sector capacity and support managers and volunteers.
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Submitted 18 May 2010 This article examines the contemporary practice of community development in New Zealand by considering its application to a number of community third sector organisational case studies.
In New Zealand our current and historic use of the term ‘community development’ is a mixture of method and rhetoric. Broadly speaking community development is held up as a way of working with communities that has a ‘bottom up’ approach, an alternative to State (top down) development. Over recent years however New Zealand government has embraced a philosophy of social development has been championed by neo-liberal government policies. Over this time we have seen the term community development used to describe social service related activities that have little to do with a ‘bottom up’ approach leaving an environment that has “…incorporated voices of dissent to the extent that there are no alternative spaces from which to challenge it (Jenkins 2005:216).
Shaw (2007) and Sihlongonyane (2009) argue th
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Submitted 16 May 2010 An earlier Review (Nowland‐Foreman, 2006) examined the rationale for funders to invest in capacity
building in general, and especially through supporting the core operating costs of capacity building
organisations located in the community served. It found the particular model of capacity building,
initiated and supported by Trust Waikato with Sportsforce, (now) Community Waikato and Arts
Waikato, is especially effective, and deserves to be promoted more widely. That same report
identified from an analysis of the international literature and from local experience, the key factors
associated with ‘good practice’ in capacity building.
This Report builds on those identified ‘good practice’ factors to analyse the current operation of Community Waikato three years on, and also to develop a framework for ongoing monitoring and reporting that fits the kind of
work that it needs to describe and account for.
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Submitted 11 Mar 2010 'Healthy Relationships' is a programme designed by Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower Trust to teach personal safety through explanations and interactive stories .The goal of the stories is to develop understanding of the four rules of a 'Healthy Relationship', and allow the skills to be rehearsed in a group or as an individual. Clarity Research Ltd has been commissioned by Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower Trust to evaluate Stage I of the 'Healthy Relationships' programme in two schools with youth at high risk of abuse. Qualitative interviews were used to gain understanding of the impact of the 'Healthy Relationships' programme to reduce sexual exploitation and abuse of young people with intellectual Disabilities. ‘Healthy Relationships’ has produced significant benefits for many of the young people with intellectual disabilities that have attended the programme. Most of the people interviewed were full of praise for the benefits of the programme. Teachers were also able
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Submitted 17 Feb 2010 Good practice happens inside and outside the classroom. Sometimes it is about bringing the outside in. Our good practice story is really about a process which adds value to the tutor/learner partnership right along the teaching/learning continuum.
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Submitted 16 Feb 2010 Considers the work of nine NGOs providing settlement support to refugees and migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand. It considers support of new comers at local level with access to information and services, English language skills, employment and pathways to employment, volunteering, emotional integration and education of the host community. It also looks at collaboration of organisations at a regional and national level.
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Submitted 16 Feb 2010 Considers the work of nine NGOs providing settlement support to refugees and migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand. It considers support of new comers at local level with access to information and services, English language skills, employment and pathways to employment, volunteering, emotional integration and education of the host community. It also looks at collaboration of organisations at a regional and national level.
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Submitted 23 Nov 2009 The Federation of SeniorNet Societies has commissioned this study to evaluate how the SeniorNet service is meeting the needs of older adults in learning new technology and to improve an understanding of older adults’ learning needs.
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Submitted 16 Nov 2009 New Zealand’s 97,000 not-for-profit organisations play an important role within the lives of all New Zealand citizens; however their survival is entirely reliant upon the generosity of individuals, corporations, trusts, and the government. As New Zealand has faced a number of economic downturns between 1986 and 2008, both unique to New Zealand, and relating to the international markets in which it operates, this potentially imports uncertainty and unease into not-for-profit organisations, particularly in relation to revenue generation.
Whilst literature exploring the affect macroeconomic conditions have upon not-for-profit organisations exists within the American context, results are mixed, with some studies highlighting little or no affect being visible, whilst others identify severe pressures and funding shortages occurring. This research project aimed to conduct a comprehensive study of how three New Zealand health not-for-profit organisations (Intellectually Handicapped Childr
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Submitted 9 Nov 2009 Homelessness is an issue that is highly gender bound in most
western countries. The issue of women’s homelessness has not been adequately recognised or addressed in New Zealand. There is a group of women who are not in permanent safe or secure homes in New Zealand. Their houses are damp, cold and unsafe. These houses are far from being homes. The violence and poverty these women face means they are a highly transient population. As a result of their housing situations they often have poor mental and physical
health. This is the picture of homeless women in New Zealand society today.
The aims of this study were to investigate why some women in New Zealand are without permanent, safe and secure accommodation and what can be done to minimise the risk of female homelessness in New Zealand.
This report uses a participatory research approach. Historically homeless populations have had a dependency on service providers.
Participatory methodology challenges that power relationship by putt
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Submitted 5 Nov 2009 The relationship between housing and recovery from mental illness has been recognised by users and providers of mental health services in New Zealand in a number of reports and discussion papers (Mental Health Commission, 1999; Ministry of Social Development, 2002; Kites Trust, 2002; Fenton, 2004). The Mental Health Commission (1999) describes this relationship as follows:
“The provision of adequate, affordable and secure housing is critical to recovery, continued well-being and independence—conversely, poor housing can impair a person’s ability to recover from mental illness and function independently” (p12).
The research project was a localised attempt to explore the housing needs of mental health consumers/tāngata whaiora and the consequences for their wellbeing. Specifically, the overall aim of the research project, as determined by KHAG, was:
to explore mental health consumers’/tāngata whaiora experiences of housing needs in the Kapiti Coast region.
The objectives
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Submitted 29 Oct 2009 Change in volunteering and donation rates from 2007 to 2008
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Submitted 29 Oct 2009
New research into the intentions and aspirations
of New Zealand Baby Boomers as the first of this generational cohort approach traditional retirement age.
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Submitted 27 Oct 2009 Qualitataive research (depth interviews with 52 emergency services volunteers and other stakeholders) to identify how to lift training participation of emergency services volunteers, and the impact of training on service delivery
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Submitted 27 Oct 2009 Literature review to identify barriers to training for volunteers in emergency services, and volunteers in general, and how to overcome those barriers
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Submitted 27 Oct 2009 This research was undertaken on behalf of the ASB Community Trust to provide a broad overview of the housing sector with particular focus on the needs which are evident.
The research has a focus on the Auckland and Northland regions being the area the ASB Community Trust primarily serves. The report is based on findings from a review of available published information and key informant interviews with those involved in the sector.
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Submitted 30 Sep 2009 The NZ Non-Profit Sector and Government Policy examines the relationship between the non-profit sector and government, and the public policy environment in which the sector operates in Aotearoa. In particular, it explores the impact of government policy on the sector and how current issues facing the sector are linked to interactions with government.
Non-profit organisations are affected by laws and regulations that determine their legal forms, tax treatment, and the ways in which they can act. Government agencies’ operational policies, particularly in relation to the manner and extent of funding for non-profits, also have a major impact. This report represents one of the first attempts to analyse recent developments across the whole sector.
It notes that the state’s relationship with the non-profit sector is constantly changing, nuanced and complex. Historically, some government agencies have had more comfortable relationships with the sector than others. The report observes that “
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Submitted 20 Sep 2009 This paper explores how kaupapa Maori practices were operationalised within the Mäori and Iwi Provider
Success research project. This project examined the practices of successful Mäori and iwi (tribal) providers of services and/or programmes across six sectors (housing, social services, education, employment and training,
justice, health) and five regions in Aotearoa New Zealand (Taitokerau,Tamaki Makaurau, Taranaki, Tairawhiti and Te Waipounamu). The role of the researchers and the Kaupapa Mäori research practices used are outlined.
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Submitted 19 Sep 2009 This is an update on financial reporting in the not-for-profit sector in Australia. This article was prepared in June 2009.
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Submitted 19 Sep 2009 Feasibility study prepared for a Lotteries Commission Community Facilities Application. This study includes a review of local facilities and the results of a survey in the Northland/Otari suburbs of Wellington.
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Submitted 15 Sep 2009 This report was made to MSD as the funder of the feasibility study. Fourteen social service agencies participated in the study to determine if the Social Services ITO could recognise their in-house training programmes against unit standards in social services. The study used a mapping process of programmes against unit standards, and an organisational peer review process to assess training systems against set criteria. The report details the outcomes of the feasibility study. Appendices are available by contacting the Social Services ITO. info@socialservicesito.org.nz
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Submitted 1 Sep 2009 This paper considers challenges to giving and opportunities for promoting generosity in
New Zealand. It sets out proposals from the Generosity Hub for a strategic plan,
objectives and initiatives to promote generosity.
This paper is the fourth of a series to stimulate discussion between the Generosity Hub members, advisors
and others in order to guide the work of the Hub. For information on the series and the Promoting Generosity
initiative see http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/promoting-generosity.html
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Submitted 1 Sep 2009 This paper builds a picture of what we know about how people currently give in New
Zealand, identifies gaps in information and the challenges for the future of generosity.
This paper is the third of a series to stimulate discussion between the Generosity Hub members, advisors and
others in order to guide the work of the Hub. For information on the series and Promoting Generosity initiative
see http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/promoting-generosity.html
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Submitted 1 Sep 2009 This paper examines the benefits that stem from generosity for givers, receivers and the
community as a whole.
This paper is the second of a series to stimulate discussion between the Promoting Generosity initiative Hub
Members, Advisors and others in order to guide the work of the Generosity Hub. For information on the series
and Promoting Generosity initiative see http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/promoting-generosity.html
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Submitted 1 Sep 2009 This paper asks the core questions: what is generosity, and what does it have to do with the way we live our lives or run our businesses?
This paper is the first of a series to stimulate discussion between the Promoting Generosity initiative Hub members, advisors and others in order to guide the work of the Hub. For information on the series and Promoting Generosity initiative see http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/promoting-generosity.html
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Submitted 1 Sep 2009 A growing awareness of giving, volunteering and acts of kindness in all their forms offers many opportunities to promote greater generosity throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. The philanthropic and voluntary sectors, the wider non-profit sector, central and local government, the business sector, and academia seem to be increasingly considering their role in civil society, where they fit and how they can contribute. How do we support this and build on it to encourage more New Zealanders to think about their giving – by this we mean giving of time, of money, in-kind and through acts of kindness?
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Submitted 31 Aug 2009 The Building Better Government Engagement (BBGE) project seeks to identify actions for building skills,
knowledge and values in the public service about effective engagement with citizens and communities.
As a result of the "It's More Than Talk" report published in December 2008, this report outlines recommendations for addressing the key finding that Central government agencies are not yet sufficiently committed to, and skilled at, collaborating with citizens and community organisations in order to jointly tackle societal problems.
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Submitted 30 Aug 2009 NZCOSS's first Vulnerability Report shows the recession's community impact on NGO services. The Vulnerability Report will be produced quarterly and will actively monitor the level of economic and social hardship experienced by a growing number of New Zealanders. It brings together the most current government statistics in one place, and puts these alongside the latest snapshots and statistics from community based organisations.
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Submitted 30 Aug 2009 Since the 1970s, Australian Indigenous people have built a robust and influential community controlled health services sector. While organisations know they are making a difference, there is little documentation of how “community control” is operationalised, its strengths, challenges or outcomes. This paper provides a case study of one community’s efforts towards building a community controlled health service. It provides a historical “stock take” of the findings from two social and emotional wellbeing programs and assesses how these could contribute towards more comprehensive service delivery encompassing 1) local community priorities, 2) improved internal management systems, and 3) negotiation with government health providers.
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Submitted 27 Jul 2009 Paper presented to the Annual Conference of Diabetes NZ.Assesses the role of Civil society and organisations like Diabetes NZ as agents of social and moral change. Draws on 250 years of history and international experience to suggest advocacy raher than service delivery is the most important contribution of civil society.
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Submitted 27 Jul 2009 In 2001 the government signed a Statement of Intentent for an improved relationship with the community and voulntary sector (SOGI). In 2008/09 the Association of Non Governmental Organisations of Aotearoa reviewed this statement and submitted its report to government. This article briefly summarises the recommendation and comments on the reports implications for the whole of government.
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Submitted 22 Jun 2009 This paper provides an overview of how ethnicity, personal income and household income relate to giving and volunteering in New Zealand. It is a brief supplement to ‘How do New Zealanders give’, also available on this website. All data in this report was collected from January to December 2007 through the Panorama survey, conducted by Nielsen Media Research. This report was prepared by James King, (OCVS Policy Analyst) to assist the work of the Promoting Generosity project.
HTML version: http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/three-key-projects/how-nzers-give-supp-ethnicity-and-income.html#Givingandvolunteeringbyethnicityandsubsector5
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Submitted 17 Jun 2009 In 2007, the New Zealand Parliament passed a Private Members Bill tabled by Sue Bradford MP to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961. A petition in response to this law change forced a Citizens Initiated Referendum to be held by postal ballot in July and August 2009. In order to help ensure that the opinions of children and young people on the subject of the referendum will be heard, commencing in April 2009, New Zealand child helpline 0800WHATSUP (What’s Up) conducted a telephone survey of children and young people. This is a report on the 1,677 responses collected during the first two weeks of the survey. Further reports will follow in the lead up to the referendum and a concluding report will follow the referendum.
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Submitted 24 Mar 2009 Narrative research project that interviews five community development/social service providers in 2002 and again in 2008. The interviews focus on organisational practice such as funding and networking.
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Submitted 15 Mar 2009 Announcing the 2009 SUrvey of Remuneration in the Not for Profit Sector
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Submitted 10 Mar 2009 An evaluation report on the Wellington e-rider IT service pilot project. The pilot project provided support and advice on computers and other technology to community and voluntary organisations in way that they can understand. The pilot was run by Wellington ICT, a charitable trust, from October 2007 to October 2008.
The evaluation involved a total of 21 interviews; five with clients, selected because of their differences in size, location, technology and organisational focus. Four observations of the CVOs technology systems were also undertaken. Further interviews were held with partners and stakeholders and eight non-subscribers – a sample of those organizations that had
been contacted but declined to join the Service.
The interim findings as at mid-May 2008 are:
1. High client satisfaction with the e-rider service at this point in time. Key contributing factors are:
* the effective communication style of the e-rider a
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Submitted 10 Mar 2009 An evaluation report on the Wellington e-rider IT service pilot project. The pilot project provided support and advice on computers and other technology to community and voluntary organisations in way that they can understand. The pilot was run by Wellington ICT charitable trust from October 2007 to October 2008.
The final evaluation report:
* presents results for the Pre- and Post-service surveys
* presents an analysis of the Final Report interviews involving subscribers to
the Service, Wellington City Council officers, the Implementation Manager
and the e-Rider
* reflects on the plans for transitioning the e-Rider service from a pilot project to a service that will evolve to a sustainable service operating on a self-funding business model from 1 April 2011.
The evaluators conclude:
The findings for the one-year Pilot Project are that:
1. there is very little difference between clients’ expectations for the Service and their perceptions of the Service delivered. T
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 This research project was initiated in 2001 to explore the governance and organisational practices of 11 diverse community organisations in Dunedin. The themes explored within the study are the life history, the influence of the external environment, the internal dynamics, the challenges to and the success factors of the organisation. The aim of the researchers was to allow the organisations to tell their own stories and for others to learn from those experiences.
NB The study has just been replicated with five of the orgiginal organisations to see what has changed in 2008 and is due for publication in 2009.
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 The Local Government Act 2002 requires New Zealand local authorities to become actively involved in the development of social wellbeing. This Act is a major shift for local authorities and their communities as they are now required to engage with their communities to develop shared community outcomes. Recent research indicates that the community and social services sector are cynical of local authorities’ ability to work with them to achieve improved social wellbeing. Without equal, effective partnerships with the community and social services sector the process of developing community outcomes will be weighted toward the needs of the local authority and therefore is in breach of the Act. In this article I argue that if local authorities undertake the groundwork required to develop effective relationships with the community and social services sector they will be in an ideal place to achieve the intent of the Local Government Act 2002, that of empowering their communities.
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 This paper explores the notion of community-based cultural organisations as a new type of organisation that combines the community orientated objectives of community arts practice with the commercially oriented creative industries. This has resulted in organisational goals that place equal emphasis on process and product. By combining these goals, organisations have responded to much of the criticism levelled at previous community arts practice.
In New Zealand, however, these organisations are hampered by gaps in cultural policy, which limits their ability to gain legitimacy and agency in either the arts or the creative industry fields. The commodity/public good split in cultural policy remains the dominant discourse for both central and local government in New Zealand. This paper argues that if community-based cultural organisations are to be supported by government policy an integrated policy approach needs to be adopted. Such an approach would need to combine both economic and so
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 This paper compares the ‘Achieving Better Community Development’ (ABCD) model for organisational practice (Barr & Hashagen 2000) with the organisational practices in New Zealand ‘social development’ approach to social service provision. As a result of this comparison we evaluate whether the ABCD model is a more appropriate framework for evaluating voluntary sector organisations who are informed by community development concepts.
Since the late 1990s the rejection of a strictly imposed economic rationalism has led the New Zealand Government, like those of most European countries, into a major policy shift to democratic pluralist or ‘third way’ style government. The state, acting around key rhetorical terms such as 'partnership', has sought to create partner relationships with community organisations in ‘joined up’ government. (Craig and Larner 2002). The current government promotes the ‘social development’ response to social issues which in turn influences their funding a
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 In recent years ‘third way’ style governments have sought to partner with third sector organisations in ‘joined up’ government. The neo-liberal basis for the third way model has sought to make government’s community collaborators more professional in their approach. This has been achieved by influencing third sector organisations to adopt quasi-business models of organisational practice and accountability.
While the rationale for promoting these practices has resulted from a desire to afford third sector organisations with a level of social efficacy similar to that of the professions; an increasing number of researchers (Aimers & Walker 2008; Barr, A. & Hashagen, S. 2000; Craig 2004 & Walker 2002) have argued that business or quasi-business models are not always appropriate measures of success for the work of the third sector. Not the least of which is the difficulty in defining accountability against macro environmental outcomes such as: eradicating poverty or achieving equity amon
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Submitted 10 Feb 2009 In this paper I offer a set of guidelines for the use of Action Research in New Zealand local authority community development and parks and recreation settings.
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Submitted 17 Dec 2008 doc is an abstract
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Submitted 17 Dec 2008 The article is an analysis of when and why sports projects for disadvantaged children actually include the children and produce social capital. The Danish State has funded 42 sports projects for overweight children in Denmark with 10 mill Australian Dollars and as evaluator of this program I examine and analyse when and why these projects work.
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Submitted 17 Dec 2008 vivian Hutchinson is the Executive Officer of the Social Innovation Investment Group and the New Zealand Social Entrepreneur Fellowship. This paper is based on his presentation to the workshop on Innovation and Evaluation held in Wellington, New Zealand in November 2008.
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Submitted 15 Dec 2008 This ANZTSR conference workshop heard from three presenters seeking to demonstrate and build understanding of the process of organisational, community and sector capacity strengthening in an Aotearoa context. Margy-Jean Malcolm introduced some themes from the literature about what supports the inherent strengths within an organisation or community to self-organise and thrive. Nan Wehipeihana drew out lessons from her evaluation and capacity building work over a five year period with iwi and Māori providers of social services. In particular, the use of an organisational self-assessment as a tool for organisational reflection, self assessment, planning and development. Miles Shepheard drew on his work taking a 'whole system' view of the methods and impacts of the programme they were evaluating .
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Submitted 13 Dec 2008 This ANZTSR workshop brought together perspectives from the three presenters’ areas of work, seeking to demonstrate and build understanding of the process of organisational, community and sector capacity strengthening in an Aotearoa context. The presentation proposed that organisations and communities have inherent capacity that is more than their tangible skills and resources. Capacity strengthening is a process of enhancing and unleashing energy for ongoing learning and adaptation - it is an end in itself as well as a means for improving effectiveness and impact for the changes your organisation wants to support in your community. While you can plan a capacity strengthening programme or intervention, outcomes are not easy to measure, nor do you necessarily achieve what you set out to achieve. The links between capacity, performance and results are hard to demonstrate. The way we measure results can actually undermine or support capacity for reflective practice and adaptation. There i
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Submitted 11 Dec 2008 This paper reports on one aspect of a survey of New Zealand volunteers undertaken in 2007 to develop a broad understanding of active volunteers’ expenses and organisational reimbursement patterns (available at http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/resources.php?view=1137). In this paper, analysis of the impact of out-of-pocket expenses on volunteering is considered, the differences between rural and urban volunteers’ expenses highlighted, and the correlation between income and expenses is assessed.
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Submitted 8 Dec 2008 There are many reasons for studying the relationship between governments and nonprofits in the community services sector; it is a critical nexus though which much social policy implementation passes as it moves from conception to delivery. One key driver in search to understand the relationship between governments and nonprofits is, of course, to explain this relationship – does it differ from organisation to organisation, from sector to sector, event to event and from leader to leader, and if so, why?
Often this explanation occurs through looking to the structures of the organisations involved and the environments in which they operate – as theorised in the organisational theories of resource dependency and institutional theory. In this paper I apply the findings of my research, an ethnographic comparative case study investigating the relationships between governments and nonprofits in the community services sector. In doing so, I identify some strengths and weaknesses of such an
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Submitted 7 Dec 2008 This powerpoint file contains slides presented at the ANZTSR workshop held on 25th November 2008. Pleas ealso see: http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/resources.php?view=1141.
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Submitted 5 Dec 2008 A listing of research on the non-profit sector in New Zealand collated as part of the Study of the New Zealand Non-profit Sector
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Submitted 4 Dec 2008 The NgOIT 2005 Landscape Survey is a national collection of data provided by community (non-government) mental health and addiction service providers in New Zealand. This document provides an overview of the community mental health and addictions sector, and outlines the position of local and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) delivering such services in the community. It seeks to improve the sector's view of itself, and to enhance government's understanding of NGO mental health and addiction service providers. It also aims to provide guidance for key funding decisions and for future development of the reporting and collecting of information within the sector. This report contains both narrative commentary and survey results. The data has been analysed and validated by a statistician.
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Submitted 4 Dec 2008 This powerpoint file contains slides presented at the ANZTSR workshop held on 25th November 2008. Please also see: http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/resources.php?view=1142 and 1141
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Submitted 4 Dec 2008 This powerpoint file contains slides presented at the ANZTSR workshop held on 25th November 2008. Pleas ealso see: http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/resources.php?view=1141.
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Submitted 4 Dec 2008 These powerpoints were presented at an ANZTSR workshop on 25th November 2008. They present an overview of the current financial reporting requirements in (i) New Zealand and (ii) Australia. The third set of powerpoints raises issues as to the complexities of financial reporting in the sector. The Word document captures verbatim feedback of provided by participants in this session, although further discussion was not captured.
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Submitted 3 Dec 2008 A survey of American NPOs was conducted to examine business/nonprofit partnerships from the perspective of those who have never partnered. Primary reasons for not partnering with business tended to be more operational than philosophical.
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Submitted 3 Dec 2008 This report adds to the growing body of knowledge about non-government organisations (NGOs) in New Zealand contracted by the Crown to provide mental health and addictions services in the community.
The exact numbers of people employed in the non-government mental health and addictions sector is not known, but the 2007 NgOIT Workforce Survey collates the results of 1833 individual survey responses to create a snapshot of the industry.
By following as closely as possible the data collection model of the national Health Workforce Information Programme (HWIP) and nationally-agreed job codes, this survey complements the work of other agencies.
The variety of occupations of respondents was extensive, demonstrating the wide range of activity currently being undertaken in the community by NGOs.
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Submitted 20 Nov 2008 This paper looks at how local government in New Zealand is working to improve the participation of residents in local decision-making. The research looked at three communities where community planning had been used and talked to Council and community members about their experiences. Using a case study approach, the information gathered was used to build a picture of possible sources of success or failure in using community planning.
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Submitted 6 Nov 2008 On 1 November 2007 the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Revenue asked for submissions on ways to simply the current law on the taxation of reimbursement and honoraria paid volunteers in the non-profit sector. A number of proposals were outlined in a Inland Revenue Department issues paper released on 1 November.
This working paper presents the results of a survey of 1537 individuals and 224 organisations who replied to a web based questionnaire that was conducted in August and September 2007. The results have been used to support a number of recommendations towards simplification and clarification of current tax law.
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Submitted 30 Oct 2008 This issue of Mana Mahi highlights a number of exciting events and opportunities organised by the Workplace Wellbeing Project in November/December 2008 for sector employers and managers to add to their toolkit of skills and knowledge about best employment practice in our sector. We also launch our new employment resource for sector organisations – also called Mana Mahi.
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Submitted 30 Oct 2008 This edition of Mana Mahi discusses issues of pay parity; the results of the Strategic Pay Not for Profit Sector 2008 Remuneration Survey; feedback from our Effective Employment Relations workshops; pay and employment equity and what it means for our sector; flexible working; what is involved in going to mediation; and other employment-related news and events of relevance to our sector.
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Submitted 30 Oct 2008 Welcome to the second newsletter of the Workplace Wellbeing Project, a sector-driven initiative which seeks to promote and support good employment practices and relationships in our sector. In this issue we focus on funding and pay issues as they affect employment in our sector.
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Submitted 30 Oct 2008 This is the first in a series of newsletters produced by the Workplace Wellbeing Project to keep people up to date with what is happening with the project, and with employment-related issues and events in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector.
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Submitted 10 Oct 2008 This document includes the full schedule of abstracts for the DEMONSTRATE Conference - hosted by ANZTSR, AUT and University of Waikato, 24/26 November 2008, AUT, Auckland NZ.
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Submitted 22 Sep 2008 This research looks into the governance of 12 meduim sized not for profits in Auckland and Christchurch.It also considers how they compare with theoretical models, the strategies for dealing with the maintenance of the boards and the key governance issues they face.
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Submitted 14 Sep 2008 This is a brief report of an August 2008 seminar, sponsored by the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector Research Centre on possibilities for a sector-wide survey in Aotearoa New Zealand. It included a presentation by Lester Salamon (Centre for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins University) on the US sector "Listening Post" project. "Taking the PULSE" refers to documenting the prospects, understandings and learnings from sector experience.
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Submitted 18 Aug 2008 The History of the Non-profit Sector in New Zealand considers the forces and players that have shaped the non-profit sector in New Zealand over time. It examines our rich heritage and reminds us that a strong government sector and a strong non-profit sector can co-exist.
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Submitted 18 Aug 2008 This report provides the most accurate picture yet of the New Zealand non-profit sector and shows how it compares with 40 other countries. It gives us a better understanding of the scope, structure, financing, and role of our non-profit organisations.
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Submitted 14 Aug 2008 Executive summary of the findings of Strategic Pay's 2008 survey of remuneration and pay practices in the Not for Profit Sector
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Submitted 14 Aug 2008 The Hot Off The Press report provides a snapshot of the number of non-profit institutions that were operating in New Zealand at October 2005. The report also provides a breakdown of the number of non-profit institutions into groups by their main activity, paid staff and total number of volunteers.
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Submitted 14 Aug 2008 The quickstats is a shorter version of the main satellite account (publication) focusing only on the key highlights of non-profit institutions in New Zealand.
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Submitted 14 Aug 2008 The Satellite Account provides comprehensive information on the number, size and structure of non-profit institutions, as well as their contribution to key economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP). The account also extends the traditional national accounting framework by valuing the significant contribution of volunteer labour for or through non-profit institutions.
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Submitted 14 Aug 2008 The remarks of Garth Nowland-Foreman, Chair of the Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector on the launch of "The New Zealand Non-Profit Sector in Comparative Perspective" - undertaken as a part of the international Comparative Non-Profit Sector Project, Johns Hopkins University. The key findings of the research are summarised and some implications for public policy identified.
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Submitted 18 Jul 2008 This article describes about the Si Ma Cai market in the northern Vietnam. The importance of the market in the life of Mhong ethnic minority and the new developments in the market place are described
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Submitted 17 Jul 2008 Increased accountability is often assumed to only be desirable for non-profit and voluntary organisations. This papers outlines some of the risks and dangers from externally imposed, and especially, 'classic' (legalistic) accountability arrangements found in contracting. In particular, a typology of 'funder capture' risks is presented. Rather than advocating a vacuum in responsibility, the Social Audit tool (developed by the New Economics Foundation) is analysed for the opport
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Submitted 8 Jul 2008 This four-page resource lists media frames, use of sources and te reo Maori, and absences to indicate whether a news item may be postive, neutral, negative or unbalanced in its representation of Maori issues. It also lists actions that consumers can take about negative news items with examples, including campaigns, complaints to standards organisations, boycotts, protests and allied campaigns.
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Submitted 8 Jul 2008 This study analysed newspaper and television news items about Maori issues and te Tiriti o Waitangi. It found mass media used persistent negative themes about Maori, Pakeha news frames and a low proportion of Maori news sources. Aspects of coverage, such as use of labels like "activist" were unbalanced. Media consumers believed this coverage damaged Maori health and reinforced negative Pakeha perceptions of Maori.
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Submitted 8 Jul 2008 This is a joint paper describing and assessing initiatives undertaken by ANGOA in New Zealand and DSE in the Solomon Islands to improve the abiliuty of NGO's to interact effectively with government.
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Submitted 3 Jul 2008 Research into who gives time and money to different parts of the community and voluntary sector. It draws on market research data collected through the Panorama Survey, which is run by Nielsen Media Research. Panorama engages 12,000 respondents annually.
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Submitted 29 Jun 2008 The KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER Trust (short KIDPOWER) received a grant from The Todd Foundation to pilot and evaluate outcomes of one-hour sessions with 8 to 12 year old children in classes of low decile schools throughout New Zealand. The primary purpose of this evaluation is to assess whether and to what extent the students and teachers understood, retained and utilised effectively the skills learned both immediately and three months after the training. To conduct the evaluation, KIDPOWER en
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Submitted 29 Jun 2008 The KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER Trust (short KIDPOWER) received a grant from The Todd Foundation to pilot and evaluate outcomes of one-hour sessions with 8 to 12 year old children in classes of low decile schools throughout New Zealand.
KIDPOWER TEENPOWER and FULLPOWER safety workshops are designed to teach people of all ages and abilities how to protect themselves from violence. The central focus is to create a safe learning environment while ensuring high quality service. All workshops emph
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Submitted 16 Jun 2008 A series of hui and interviews to determine the guiding cultural and ethical issues for Iwi were undertaken in Hamilton and Rotorua for the kidZnet project
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Submitted 16 Jun 2008 In 2006 the J R McKenzie Trust invited expressions of interest from Māori community organisations for grants supporting "whānau development". This resulted in a large and diverse response. This document summarises the themes contained in those proposals, giving a snapshot of many aspirations around "whānau development".
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Submitted 2 Jun 2008 Mitimiti beach, north Hokianga
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Submitted 1 Jun 2008 Funny Mondays and Fridays movie
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Submitted 31 May 2008 Open content free to use wallpaper for computer screen
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Submitted 31 May 2008 A review of the Clearing House project as part of the requirements of the Department of Internal Affairs Community Partnership Fund
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Submitted 28 May 2008 An image of The Clearing House ladybug
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Promoting Community Well-being: A study of the involvement of Councils of Social Services in Local Authority community Outcomes Processes.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Volunteering for Maori is based on the notion of whanaungatanga (kinship) and the benefits derived from contributing to the common good. Within Maori culture, conceptions of self are linked to aspects of nature, wairua, mauri, whanau and mana, and all are intertwined.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This paper encourages Community Trusts to discuss social funding and sustainable community development; consider overseas developments, examine their potential role in New Zealand, develop appropriate models and trial new funding and sustainable community development approaches.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The Treaty is not widely seen as a framework for considering the future - more often it is regarded as the cause of grievances!
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Employment, employees, employers, self-employed, unemployed, voluntary work
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Sustainable Management Practices in the Voluntary Sector
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The WEA, Telling our stories: Celebrating 90 Years of Community Education
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The Federation Of Workers’ Educational Associations Aotearoa New Zealand Inc: Constitution
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Survey of NGO Relationships with DHBs
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The importance of volunteers manning social organisations and their contribution to the Common Good
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This is a summary of the most recent statistics from the MoH and the DIA on problem gambling
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Describes a new model for research based on an organic approach to social change.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Not just another acronym: NGOs in the Health and Disability sector
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Relationships, Framework, Ministry, NGOs, PHOs, Strategy
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Neo-liberalism, Ideas for a Community Based Workshop
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This pamphlet promotes the concept and practice of mentoring, outlines the role of mentors, guidelines, projects, training and support for mentoring.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This report presents the findings of a study of Maori organisations surveyed on their funding information needs. The purpose of the report is to build a picture of Maori organisations needs in relation to funding information, so that the Funding Information Service can consider its role in meeting the needs of Maori organisations.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of existing literature in the area of community sector capacity building. The review will attempt to summarise the key themes and conclusions emerging from this literature with regard to the capacity building needs of the voluntary and community sector, the quality and breadth of existing capacity building provision and potential models for improving the consistency and effectiveness of capacity building delivery.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This paper explores the case for a move away from the current individual rights system of social relationships. The goal is to put in place a community ethics-based system which first identifies and names the key issues at stake and then puts in place, wherever possible, community-initiated means to determine how these issues should be resolved. A five-step process is proposed, for those who are not Maori.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Health and Disability Sector NGO Workforce Development - A report to the NGO Working Group written by Kirsty Peel, Health by Design Limited, 16 June 2006
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Health and Disability NGO Working Group Terms of Reference
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Framework for Relations between the Ministry of Health and Health/Disability Non-Government Organisations
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This report reviews practices of community engagement, capacity building and partnering in 6 community-based integrated catchment management (ICM) projects, with a focus on what is working well, challenges and lessons learnt. Leadership, planning, communication strategies, and identification of existing community resources were critical. ‘Adopt a site’ strategies provided regular opportunities for residents to connect with and become involved in caring for their local area. Groups had built work
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Submitted 25 May 2008 An examination of the link between problem gambling and family violence.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 Current Financial Pressures for NGOs
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This letter from Dr Jim Primrose, Acting Deputy Director-General, Clinical Services Directorate, confirms policy settings concerning Non-Government Organisation providers of primary and population health services and PHOs.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This document reports on the results of sector meetings held in July 2006 on how Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) can best fit within the primary health care setting. It also advises how key messages from these meetings and feedback from the Health and Disability Sector NGO Working Group will be incorporated into the Primary Health Care Strategy Implementation Programme and details the key policy planks concerning NGOs and PHOs that have been confirmed by the Minister of Health, Hon Pete Hodg
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The aim of this research was to identify a small set of indicators of an individual's deprivation that is appropriate for all ethnic groups and can be combined into a single and simple index of individual socioeconomic deprivation in New Zealand. The NZiDep index of socioeconomic deprivation was derived using the same theoretical basis as the national census-based small-area indices of relative socioeconomic deprivation. The index has been created and validated from the analysis of represent
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This article comments on the loss of government attention to adult and community education.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 One of the real challenges of educational work is how to get into peoples' consciousness and not just remain talking to the converted. It is my analysis that experts must become the guests of the powerless. Such new ways of relating Work and Time requires doing away with policies permeated by the fetish of employment, where people's time has become a commodity. Instead, we need policies to generate both fulfilling work and sufficient income in a sustainable environment. I argue that we n
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This report summarises findings from a participatory action research project that determined what support systems are currently available to refugee-background students at the Victoria University of Wellington, and how these students can be better supported in the future. It is the first research specifically on support services for refugee-background students within a New Zealand university.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre AGM 2007 presentation about researching as a Maori
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This presentation formed part of an international panel discussion on the state of not for profit management education across the world, at a conference in Arizona, United States in March 2006. The paper gives a brief overview of some NFP management education initiatives in this region, and discusses the challenges of ensuring relevance to diverse social, cultural and political contexts and impact beyond the individual student, in supporting strong civil society organisations and a respected civ
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Submitted 25 May 2008 This report identifies the need for a community centre in Kaiti. It includes analysis, risks and issues, feasibility of locations and operational matters. This report is a summary of the information required by the Ministry of Social Development.
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Submitted 25 May 2008 The aim of the research was to find out the specific issues that affect people with experience of mental illness in employment. The report presents the finding of research undertaken by the Mental Health Foundation for the Like Minds, Like Mine project funded by the Ministry of Health.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This report examines the Domestic Violence Act including protection orders. The report highlights advocates' concerns that the Act is not working effectively 10 years after it was passed.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A presentation to the Health and Disability NGO-MoH Forum on the future of contracting: alternative models to competitive tendering
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A review of research into the employment of people with experience of mental illness, and the issues which arise from that subject.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 We can extract relevant lessons in the information technology era from our colonial past. One such lesson is to understand how information technologies might further impact on our knowledge.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Seeing the unseen activities that contribute to sustaining our communities is vital in determining how to live more sustainably. This initiative arose out of concern that the data available for the work on the StatisticsNZ Satellite Account for the nonprofit sector were too limited. The issues raised illuminate the value of this initiative, which resulted in the Satellite Accounts being recognised as that of the nonprofit institutions within the broader sector.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Nothing less than a re-definition of what we call "work" will respond to the way in which our society is changing. Much of what people contribute to society is neither recognised or valued, because work is currently defined solely, and too narrowly, by economic labour market criteria.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 During the last 20 years, citizens have been taught to behave as autonomous, self-interested, utility-maximising individuals, in a culture based on individual property rights where stealing of property is illegal.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This report investigates the fund-seeking experiences of community organisations in Waitakere.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This research uses organisational information from a stock-take of social service community organisations in Waitakere. It seeks to develop a ‘snapshot’ of funding information.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This report examines some factors that literature suggests are likely to impact on the way funding is distributed among community organisations.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A stock-take of community organisations and their social services in Waitakere as part of the Local Services Mapping Initiative co-ordinated by Family and Community Services.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Policymaking requires more than market mechanisms for implementation. That recognition should also be made with great caution, because the Government's attempt over the last 20 years, to incorporate as many social activities as possible into the market by redefining them as commodities, has made much of what really matters to us invisible. SOCIAL Statistics and SOCIAL activities need to be seen in their full context of relationships. They should never be seen only in the context of market tr
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This paper considers the space within which the State, the Public Service and Common Wealth interact. In particular, power relationships which fall outside nation-states are examined. These general issues are related to the author's understanding of the responsibility of Tauiwi to move from notions of majoritarianism to better understanding Tino Rangatiratanga as the context for power relationships in Aotearoa. In order to address these issues, setting the agenda for democracy is presented a
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Social marketing, community-based social marketing, social capital, recycling behaviour, community development, Waiheke Island, environmental not-for-profit organisations
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Social entrepreneurs and enterprises in New Zealand have failed to gain the acknowledgement and support to create an enabling environment. This contrasts with countries such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and USA where social entrepreneurs and enterprises are seen as a means of overcoming social, employment and economic barriers in disadvantaged communities.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This paper examines the economic and social tasks involved in community economic development in urban and rural areas. It considers the role social enterprises (community owned businesses or trading arms of not-for-profits) play in community economic development. It includes findings from several countries.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Progress on the development of research examining the impact of Unitec NZ’s Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This document presents the key findings from a survey of people with experience of mental illness to obtain their accounts of discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 All systems have needs, whether the systems be people, families, communities, cities, economics or ecosystems. System needs are complex. They exist simultaneously, and must be addressed systemically and holistically, rather than via narrow selection and targeting. Satisfaction of those needs is the central meaning of Sustainable Development. Unsatisfied needs indicate the existence of poverties. In this paper, we emphasise that simple solutions to address poverty or poverties are seldom adequate
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This case study explores Pacific ways of talking about issues of common concern with reference to two customary forms of talk that continue in current use in Fiji and Aotearoa. Taken together they provide an insight into an approach to collective talk, especially the importance of ceremony, which has commonalities with that used in other customary societies.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Compare and contrast supervision policies and practices in smaller non-profit social service organisations in Hamilton, find out whether there is a best practice model of supervision for social workers working in smaller social work agencies.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A review of the historical development of the New Zealand Council of Social Services - its place in Aotearoa New Zealand's social policy landscape, its relationships with other national umbrella organisations, and how it has responded to, and been affected by, emerging social and economic policy trends.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Book review
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Submitted 24 May 2008 What is happening to government funding of voluntary organisations in Aotearoa/New Zealand? Where is it heading? What does it mean for voluntary organisations?
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Information, knowledge and wisdom for the learning NGO, capacity building & roles.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This paper reports on a meta-analysis of ten community action projects. The activation, consolidation and transition or completion stages of the projects were examined to identify commonalities in structures and processes that either enhanced or impeded the projects meeting their objectives for social change.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This report is on the effects of family violence on employment opportunities for Maori women. Maori women's employment is affected through their partner coming to their workplace and creating scenes, increased sick days recovering from violent episodes, and lower productivity due to the stress of always being aware of their partner's potential to be violent.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 My basic assertion is that Leadership in Volunteering, from my Pakeha (those of European ancestry) understanding, requires attention to the "Big Picture". A dozen facets of the Big Picture are explored in this paper, and a view of Leadership in Volunteering developed.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This article explores Kaitiakitanga, its potential implementation in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) health sector, and its contributions to our thinking.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 On Waiheke Island the Waste Resource Trust is responsible for encouraging 8000 residents to recycle more and send less waste to landfill. Volunteers engage the community with an annual celebration of waste reuse, wearable art, recreated objects and local performance.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 "... This is the 'accidental' joint funding which may very well describe the situation for the 99 per cent of non-profit organisations that orchestrate the mix of funding they require to survive from a range of funders."
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A review of Social Services Waikato and Arts Waikato.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Two hundred years ago, English missionaries arrived in Aotearoa, bringing bibles, pens and paper, and thus, for the indigenous people, one of the first great encounters with European technology; namely, the written word.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Community economic development is recognised as a integral part of economic development in many countries and by the OECD. Such recognition has not yet been achieved in New Zealand and this paper considers the role Community Trusts can play in encouraging community economic development in New Zealand.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Based on observed giving, BERL estimated that New Zealanders gave between .24 billion and .46 billion during the 2005/2006 year. Our best estimate in this range suggests total philanthropic funding of .27 billion.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 In recent years charities and philanthropy have come under increasing pressure to become more business-like in the way that funds are raised, managed and distributed. This has resulted in emphasising venture philanthropy, or investment, rather than the act of charity, or being charitable. This approach focussing on outcomes contrasts with the traditional, charitable approach to philanthropy that emphasises motivation and process. Considering philanthropy in a social capital framework based on tr
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This report estimates how much money New Zealanders and New Zealand non-governmental organisations gave to charities and other community purposes during the 2005/2006 year.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 As more and more activities - housework, childcare, looking after the sick and the old - become monetised and institutionalised, the values that allow people to provide services to one another free of charge become distorted. When such changes occur, social and cultural cohesion dissolves and a malaise is evident in society. Domination by the market economy also transforms attitudes to goods as well as services. The reductionism which encourages humans to think of themselves as items of producti
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Submitted 24 May 2008 NZAID is seeking to move to a more strategic developmental approach that meets their principles and ways of working to effectively address the needs of people living with disabilities in the Pacific region.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Citizens have lost the capacity to engage meaningfully in making decisions about issues of concern. Many people are isolated from the talk which makes it possible understand the world and test norms and values.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This evaluation follows a broad-ranging evaluation of the Voluntary Agency Support Scheme (VASS) in 1998 that focused on rationale, purpose, structure, management and ‘place’ of VASS in relation to international trends in funding non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
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Submitted 24 May 2008 A study of the costs and impacts of employment relationship problems and how the parties to an ERP decide how to progress the issues.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 One in a series of working papers to understand the scope, structure, financing, and role of the nonprofit sector of more than 40 countries.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 The radical contracting model by which some government departments purchase services from community based organizations serving people with disabilities has directly contributed to the failure of service provision.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 Counting for More is focused on a pilot study of outputs and outcomes and is a major milestone for the VAVA (Value Added by Voluntary Agencies) project initiated in 2002 by the New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations to provide economically valid measures of the work of voluntary organisations.
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Code Of Practice for the Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre, Version 2.1 Submitted 24 May 2008
This Code Of Practice describes the optimum practices in community research as outlined for the Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This paper interrogates the notion of exclusion with a particular focus upon the experiences of young women.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This case study reviews a series of events using a deliberation approach that have taken place in Porirua City. The nature of these activities is considered in relation to how they have impacted on the ongoing approach to consultation and participation by citizens in planning and providing services in the City. It is not a detailed history of but an attempt to unravel how they have been inter-connected and explore ways in which the deliberative approach may develop in the future.
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Submitted 24 May 2008 This paper explores three questions: 1. How can the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector think about Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi and work with it positively and productively? 2. In providing support for the Sector, how does the Community Sector Taskforce methodology address the Sector's practical issues? 3. How does the Taskforce support those parts of the Sector who wish to develop their response to the Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi at a regional, local or at a Sector organisational le
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