What has happened in the 25 years or so since purchase-of-service contracting was introduced for government funding of voluntary organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand? This article provides a brief commentary…continue reading
Economics
A Proposal to Build a Robust, Evidence Based Learning System for Social Investment. ComVoices (March 2017)
By: ComVoices
Published: 2016-11-01
In 2016 the Ministry of Soical Development (MSD) advised that from July 2017 its contracts with funded providers would include, as a condition of funding, the requirement to gather and…continue reading
Government – Central & Local Grants, Funding, Contracts & Fundraising Research & Evaluation
Economics
ANZTSR 2014 Whose Mission? The pervasive nature of the government contracting environment and the impact on not-for-profit organisations
By: Wilma Gallet
Published: 2014-10-29
This paper focuses on the outsourcing of public services to private organisations and the mechanisms that government puts in place to control these organisations. The fulcrum of this paper is…continue reading
Government – Central & Local Social Services Welfare & Benefits
Ethnicity and Diversity
Global trends and refugee settlement in New Zealand
By: J Marlowe & S Elliott
Published: 2014-09-23
Resettlement provides access to rights similar to other New Zealanders and the opportunity to eventually gain citizenship. It also provides an avenue for countries like New Zealand to share international…continue reading
Government – Central & Local Human Rights & Civil Liberties Migrants and Former Refugees
Economics
Outcomes Plus
By: New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
Published: 2013-05-01
Over the last decade, government agencies, the community and voluntary sector, and academics have all noted the changes difficulties, and tensions being caused by government policies and processes surrounding social…continue reading
Government – Central & Local Grants, Funding, Contracts & Fundraising
Non-profit Sector
Can Voluntary Organisations Survive the Bear Hug of Government Funding? – A View from Aotearoa New Zealand
By: Garth Nowland-Foreman
Published: 2000-01-01
Purchase-of-service contracting with voluntary organisations for social services in Aotearoa New Zealand is examined, in the context of international trends and as a part of the long run historical evolution…continue reading
Government – Central & Local Grants, Funding, Contracts & Fundraising Volunteering & Mahi Aroha
Economics
“Purchase-of-Service Contracting, Voluntary Organisations, and Civil Society: Dissecting the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs?”
By: Garth Nowland-Foreman
Published: 1998-01-01
Governments around the world are making increasing use of contracting “technologies” to purchase services from voluntary organizations – both in privatising (contracting out) previously government-provided services and in reining in…continue reading