Te Pūaha o te Ako

Supporting you to take practical steps in your organisation now.

A practical, easy-to-use toolkit of resources and insights to help new and small community groups or not-for-profit organisations thrive.

Te Pūaha Talks is our free online capability building webinars for not-for-profits.

Creating mana-enhancing collaboration with (1) young people and (2) hāpu and whānau.

Learn some ideas and practices to add to your facilitation basket.

In this webinar, Jane Yonge and Jennifer Cheuk from Te Taumata talk about the development of the trust’s communications over the last five years.

A webinar where we discuss tohu (signs) that we can see and observe from the natural world.

What collaboration means; how you can develop your collaborative capacity, and; when might be the right time for collaboration.

Three informative new resources designed to help community organisations build capability and find the support they need.

This guide is designed to help your community group or not-for-profit organisation apply for funding.

If you want to know how to put the action into climate action for your organisation, this is for you.

A Pacific evaluation approach

The Capability Support Wheel is a signposting tool designed to help community organisations find development resources.

Hear how three leading communicators approach the development of successful social impact communications campaigns.

A Te Pūaha Talk about Future Search.

This 3 page report reviews advocacy as a vital lever for change, identifies local resources and case studies of effective advocacy, and emerging international thinking.

Good practice resources

MPEI Longitudinal Study - Overview and Learning Debrief

This 3 page report shares insights about what effective practices look like.

I Am Auckland video is an insight into how our next generation are experiencing life in their city today.

A webinar and insights paper share learnings from The Philanthropic Landscape reports.

Report: Shifting culture and power through mana-enhancing partnerships

Research and analysis for social impact provide insights for the funders, community organisations and changemakers we work with. Read about funding community innovation for intergenerational impact; food sovereignty and equitable food systems; and funding advocacy for impact.

Research and analysis for social impact provide insights for the funders, community organisations and changemakers we work with. Read about funding community innovation for intergenerational impact; food sovereignty and equitable food systems; and funding advocacy for impact.

Research and analysis for social impact provide insights for the funders, community organisations and changemakers we work with. Read about funding community innovation for intergenerational impact; food sovereignty and equitable food systems; and funding advocacy for impact.

Our Centre for Social Impact insights papers provide a brief overview of the reports on research and analysis we undertake with our clients and partners.

Embedding evaluative practice was the focus of the final free online Kia Whiti Tonu workshop, funded by Foundation North, for 2021.

When Foundation North set out to shift the power in the funding relationship and put young people in the driving seat, the Pacific Future Makers Fund was born.

Roger Palairet and Linn Araboglos of the Wellington Community Trust reflect on the challenges of 2020

Shelly Mitchell-Jenkins has been a trustee of the Eastern and Central Community Trust for eight years (including some time as the Chair). We asked Shelly to share her reflections on her time as a trustee and the changes she has observed.

Future Search is a process that brings together people who share an interest in a particular issue or challenge to collaborate to find solutions and act on them together.

Explore how to bring healing and restoration into the process of changing our systems.

This session provides senior leaders wanting to rejuvenate their organisations with an innovative approach to strategy.

A review of the strategic issues and implications that have come up for the community sector through COVID-19.

A discussion on what type of innovation we need today to create an interconnected future where all can thrive. Includes practical tools and resources for this way of innovating.

The COVID-19 crisis will have a major impact on the wellbeing of New Zealand’s communities over the next few years. It will also affect how we think about our organisations and our services. We asked some of the key influencers in our sector to give us a brief insight into what they have seen and learnt since the crisis started, the challenges they’re seeing ahead, and what the potential solutions to those challenges might be.

Vicky McLennan was appointed as a trustee of Trust Waikato in June 2017, and in 2018 was appointed to the role of Deputy Chair. Vicky provided us with this review of the Chairing Community Trusts workshop.

This event, co-convened with JR McKenzie Trust and Philanthropy NZ, explored advocacy to drive change.

Insights to support the JR McKenzie Trust to harvest emerging ideas and practices relevant to New Zealand’s bi-cultural context.

This presentation by MJ Kaplan considers global trends in social enterprise, social impact and their relevance for New Zealand.

A solid evidence base supported the development of Foundation North’s 2018 Strategic Plan.

The development of Foundation North’s fifteen year strategies has been informed by a solid research base. The Centre for Social Impact helped create this foundation of information and evidence for strategies which will guide the grantmaking of New Zealand’s largest philanthropic grantmaker through to 2033.

'Kōtuitui - interweaving conversations' is the idea of Foundation North and its social business, the Centre for Social Impact. The short, after-work events, focused around a theme, will provide a platform for attendees to meet and learn from thought-leaders in the sector, such as the speaker at the inaugural Kōtuitui on social enterprise (21 Sept), Mary Jo 'MJ' Kaplan.

Changing expectations and outcomes for rangatahi was the focus of our annual learning event this year. For insight and inspiration, the presentations from Dr Terryann Clark, Dr Hana O’Regan, Lani Evans, and Maria Ramsay are now online.

Support and resources for community leaders

Quarterly wellbeing webinars has been created by Tuihana Ohia to support community hauora.

Leaders in conversation with CSI, share their wisdom, their perspective on our society, their mahi, and their hopes for the future.

Resources designed to encourage you as an individual to take six one minute pauses throughout each day to ground yourself.

Tuihana guides us through the process using the Te Whare Tapa Whā wellbeing model.

Ngahere for Teams is a programme designed to support teams to build skills and practices for restorative systems change work.

Hauora inspiration in this series of podcast interviews with community leaders on how they nurture their wellbeing.

Te Pūaha Talks series of online Unu Ora wānanga on hauora, leading in to Matariki.

Unu Ora is a series of brief meditations on health and wellbeing created by our associate and Kia Whiti Tonu wellbeing presenter, Tuihana Ohia.

Take time to reset, look to your goals for the time ahead.

This workshop provides tools and skills to help those leading or participating in collaborations to make their collaborations successful.

Board members discuss governance issues and learn from the experience of their peers.

This workshop shows how to create a practical resource, a Whare of Hauora, Home of Wellbeing, with intention around the pou (pillars): Taha Tinana (physical health), Taha Wairua (the spiritual dimension), Taha Whānau (the family), Taha Hinengaro (the mind), and Whenua (land & environment).

Wellbeing session focused on self-awareness and self-care.

Leadership is at its most visible in times of crisis. As New Zealand confronts the challenges of COVID-19, we revisit two reflections on leadership by CSI associates.

A funder’s guide to supporting advocacy

Seven ways funders can make life better for community partners.

Kōrero on how funders and changemakers across Aotearoa are stepping up to take climate action through the Funders Commitment on Climate Action

A how-to guide for funders

For funders looking to honour te Tiriti through partnership and genuine power-sharing.

This playbook outlines the landscape of potential actions for funders, to accelerate the move to a carbon neutral society, with a just transition and communities that are resilient in the face of climate change that is already ‘baked-in’.

In recognition of the important role community funders play in building better outcomes for the environment and communities of Aotearoa New Zealand, a group of community trusts have agreed a Funders Commitment on Climate Action.

The Sustainable Business Network's CEO Rachel Brown reflects on the disruption of COVID-19.

The Centre for Social Impact and Steven Moe have teamed up to produce an update on Impact Investment in Aotearoa.

A small selection of the excellent resources we’ve seen being produced in response to COVID-19.

We asked our network for their thoughts on the impacts of COVID-19 on the philanthropic sector and the long-term implications of this crisis. This blog captures some of their insights around the issue of increasing equity.

This report identifies significant outcomes and learnings from this pioneering funding programme.

Our latest blog explores how funders can support child and youth wellbeing outcomes, as well as supporting innovation and initiatives that have potential for social impact and positive change.

Our latest blog, from CSI associate Rachael Trotman, looks at how evaluation supports social impact journeys.

A review of the potential of advocacy to expose and respond to social issues.