Garth Nowland-Foreman is a founding partner of the capacity-building social enterprise, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Governance & Leadership. He also taught part-time for 18 years in Graduate Programmes in Not for Profit Management with Unitec NZ across 7 regions of Aotearoa New Zealand and in 6 Pacific Island Countries (teaching values, ethics, organisational change & effectiveness, community research & evaluation, governance, leadership, strategy & stewardship, advocacy & public policy)
Garth was co-chair of the Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre (Community Research), from 2006, until he recently stepped down in October 2023. Garth has also been a board member, including 3 terms as Deputy Chair, of Australia New Zealand Third Sector Research (2001-2017), and as a peer reviewer and guest editor of Third Sector Review, and peer reviewer for Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He also chaired the Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector, the national study for the International Nonprofit Comparative Programme (Johns Hopkins University), which also resulted in the first count of Aotearoa non-profits, their people and economic value.
The standing Kaitiaki members and co-chairs collectively felt it was appropriate to honour Garth. It was a special moment at the AGM was the awarding of our first-ever Life Membership to Garth Nowland-Foreman, honouring his extraordinary contributions to Community Research over 15 years as Kaitiaki. We were privileged to hear Garth’s profound reflections on the sector with a clear call to action.
Find Garths presentation “Doing more with less” here, or find it and other amazing presentations on our Youtube channel and in ‘other Community Research resources’.
