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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
3rd sector as social agent
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Vulnerability Report – 1st June 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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Not Just A Tool – the responses of nonprofit leaders to ‘service delivery’ relationships with governments
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Meta-analysing community action projects in Aotearoa, New Zealand
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Developing Community Partnerships: Social Wellbeing and the Local Government Act 2002
The Local Government Act 2002 requires New Zealand local authorities to become actively involved in the development of social well being. Recent research indicates that the community and social services…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Structures and Strategies Revisited 2008
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.
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Structures and Strategies: a narrative analysis of eleven community organisations in Otago
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Developing a pluralist approach to organisational practice and accountability for social service and community organisations
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Alternative models of accountability for third sector organisations in New Zealand
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…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Community development as ‘knowledge intersections’ in contemporary New Zealand
This article examines the contemporary practice of community development in New Zealand by considering its application to third sector organisational case studies. Broadly speaking community development is held up as…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
The effect of third way style ‘social development’ on women in community development
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 has…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |
Community Based Cultural Organisations within the Creative Industries – a Cultural Policy Dilemma
This paper explores community-based cultural organisations that combine orientated objectives of community arts practice with commercially oriented creative industries. In New Zealand, these organisations are hampered by gaps in cultural…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2012 |