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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Mentoring: Help when you need it
This pamphlet promotes the concept and practice of mentoring, outlines the role of mentors, guidelines, projects, training and support for mentoring.
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Counting on Capacity: A Review of Community Waikato
An earlier Review (Nowland-Foreman, 2006) examined the rationale for funders to invest in capacity building, and through supporting the core operating costs of capacity building organisations. This Report builds on…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Free and Equal: A Review of NZAID Pacific Regional Disability Programme for New Zealand Agency for International Development
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…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
The Challenge of Accountability, the Opportunity of Responsibility for Third Sector Organisations
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…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Draft Relationship Agreement between the Communities of Aotearoa New Zealand & Government of New Zealand: Submission from Garth Nowland-Foreman
The Background provides a summary of various key developments over the last decade in working to strengthen relationships between Government and the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector. Analysis concludes…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
One Million Children and the Measure of a Nation: Key Messages from Social Policy Briefings for Todd Foundation Strategic Planning
The briefing draws selected verbatim extracts from various Government and community organisation briefing documents. Collated to inform Todd Foundation‚ strategic planning process in 2010, the paper focuses on the key…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Taking the PULSE Seminar / Te Kokiritanga o te Ha
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…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
No Longer Overlooked and Undervalued – Launch of ‘The New Zealand Non-Profit Sector in Comparative Perspective’
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’…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Dangerous Accountabilities: Remaking Voluntary Organisations in Someone Else’s Image
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)…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Book Review: Third Sector: The Contribution of Nonprofit and Cooperative Enterprises in Australia, by Mark Lyons.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Book Review: Third Sector: The Contribution of Nonprofit and Cooperative Enterprises in Australia, by Mark Lyons. St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2001.
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Neither mendicants nor deal-makers: Contracting, government funding and voluntary organisations
What is happening to government funding of voluntary organisations in Aotearoa/New Zealand? Where is it heading? What does it mean for voluntary organisations?
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
It Takes Two: The Tango of Collaboration and Grantmaking
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…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |