This report provides an update on the status of the volunteering sector as at May 2021. Our work draws on data collected via stakeholder feedback, a focus group with Volunteer…continue reading
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Community Responses to Violence-The Violence Free Community Project
By: Professor Robyn Munford, Associate Professor Jackie Sanders,Kathryn Handley, Bruce Maden
Published: 2012-11-01
This report details the development and operation of a community based violence prevention programme. The focus was upon creating community level conversations that would enlarge understandings of violence and from…continue reading
Community Development Crime & Safety Family Violence & Abuse Volunteering & Mahi Aroha
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Glimpses of a better world: The role of tangata whenua, community & voluntary sector in the Canterbury earthquake recovery
By: Garth Nowland-Foreman
Published: 2011-10-28
Address to “Our Future Community and Voluntary Sector Forum”, Hosted by Council of Social Services Christchurch and Te Runaka ki Otautahi Kai Tahu, Christchurch, 28 July 2011. Drawing on lessons…continue reading
Emergency & Disaster Non-profit Sector Volunteering & Mahi Aroha
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Volunteer-related training in emergency services: findings from qualitative research
By: Sharon Pells, NZIER
Published: 2008-07-01
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…continue reading
Emergency & Disaster Research & Evaluation Volunteering & Mahi Aroha
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Volunteer-related training in emergency services: findings from desk research
By: Sharon Pells, NZIER
Published: 2008-04-01
Literature review to identify barriers to training for volunteers in emergency services, and volunteers in general, and how to overcome those barriers
Emergency & Disaster Research & Evaluation Volunteering & Mahi Aroha
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Evaluation of the Voluntary Agency Support Scheme and Emergency Management and Disaster Relief Fund
By: Mary-Jane Rivers & Garth Nowland-Foreman
Published: 2005-01-01
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…continue reading