Te Pūaha o te Ako
Knowledge Hub
Te Pūaha o te Ako is our knowledge and practice hub, our platform for sharing what we are seeing and learning as we support funders, community organisations and changemakers on their social impact journey. Through Te Pūaha o te Ako we aim to support effective social change with information and engagement to build effective and impactful practice.
You can use the search filters below to identify all the content we have on a topic such as evaluation or housing, or specific types of resources, such as toolkits or reports.
Te Pūaha o te Ako is our knowledge and practice hub, our platform for sharing what we are seeing and learning as we support funders, community organisations and changemakers on their social impact journey. Through Te Pūaha o te Ako we aim to support effective social change with information and engagement to build effective and impactful practice.
You can use the search filters below to identify all the content we have on a topic such as evaluation or housing, or specific types of resources, such as toolkits or reports.
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Te Pūaha Talks - Evaluation SeriesTe Pūaha Talks, our 2022 programme of free online capability building webinars, offers a range of learning opportunities for not-for-profits.→
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Te Pūaha Talks – our 2022 capability building programmeTe Pūaha Talks, our 2022 programme of free online capability building webinars, offers a range of learning opportunities for not-for-profits.→
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Te Pūaha Talks - hauora wānanga for MatarikiTe Pūaha Talks series of online Unu Ora wānanga on hauora, leading in to Matariki.→
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Haumanu - restorative systems changeThis time of global disruption has focused many of us on the urgent need for systems change to create a future in which people and the planet can thrive.→
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Government and Philanthropic COVID-19 ResponseThis latest report looks at Government and Philanthropic funding support through COVID-19 response.→
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Ngā Tau Tuangahuru and the Māori and Pacific Education InitiativeIn 2006, trustees from Foundation North set aside $20 million for an educational intervention to lift Māori and Pacific educational outcomes.→
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Kia Whiti Tonu - online capability and capacity building resourcesThe Kia Whiti Tonu free online workshops provide information and insights to support capability and capacity building in community organisations.→
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Building community governance capability and capacityImproving the quality of community governance is a priority for the Centre for Social Impact. Since 2019, CSI has collaborated on research to identify issues and opportunities in community governance, and the development of a national strategy and action plan to build community governance capability and capacity.→
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Embedding evaluation in your mahi – The Southern Initiative’s Niho Taniwha FrameworkEmbedding evaluative practice was the focus of the final free online Kia Whiti Tonu workshop, funded by Foundation North, for 2021.→
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Participatory grantmaking with young Pacific leadersWhen 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.→
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Unu Ora - a personal wellbeing resource from Tuihana OhiaUnu Ora is a series of brief meditations on health and wellbeing created by our associate and Kia Whiti Tonu wellbeing presenter, Tuihana Ohia.→
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Community trusts climate action commitmentIn 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.→
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Reflections - Wellington's 2020 experienceRoger Palairet and Linn Araboglos of the Wellington Community Trust reflect on the challenges of 2020→
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More than giving - eight years contribution at Eastern and CentralShelly 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.→
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Giving the planet a 'breath of time' - and what happens nextThe Sustainable Business Network's CEO Rachel Brown reflects on the disruption of COVID-19.→
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Frameworks for understanding and demonstrating social impactCSI Associate Rachael Trotman on how to ‘know and show’ the difference your organisation makes.→
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Overview of Impact Investing in AotearoaThe Centre for Social Impact and Steven Moe have teamed up to produce an update on Impact Investment in Aotearoa.→
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COVID-19 and our natural environmentReconnecting Northland’s Eamon Nathan on lockdowns and our connection with the natural world.→
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Harnessing our collective energies for what happens next… read National Survey resultsThe COVID-19 lockdown in March has ignited our imaginations and opened up our potential. There is a huge appetite to harness what was activated during lockdown. Those are sentiments that came out of the recently released national COVID-19 impact survey of the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector.→
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Diving into the waters of systems change at Sport New ZealandThere’s nothing like calling in a critical friend to illuminate what is implicit and invisible in the waters that you’re swimming in. That’s what recently happened between Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa and (CSI).→
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Survey highlights impact of COVID-19 on the community and voluntary sectorNational COVID-19 impact survey reveals the impact on the community sector.→
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COVID-19 and the social impact sector... hear from thought leadersThe Centre for Social Impact is drawing on the experience of its network and community to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the philanthropic sector, the long-term implications of this event, and to identify possible social impact responses.→
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CSI Statement of Service Performance 2019/20Our annual SSP reports on how we help grant-makers and funders invest for impact and enable their community partners to turn that investment into inspiring and sustainable social change.→
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Community Trusts Professional Development ProgrammeThis programme was developed by CSI in collaboration with eleven community trusts. It responds to trustees’ commitment to strengthen the governance capability of the sector. The programme combines workshops with knowledge and practice sessions to enable trustees to share ideas and practices from their governance journeys as they develop their governance skills.→