Te Pūaha o te Ako

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.

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

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

A Te Pūaha Talk about Future Search.

Stories of Shifting Culture and Power – Funder Journeys

There’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).

The 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.

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.

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 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.

The first of our 2019 Kōtuitui (interweaving conversations) focused on emerging research on the multigenerational legacies of traumas such as war, colonisation and famine – and the possibilities for healing.

Our Social Impact hui provide space for conversations about strategies and practices for funders looking to strengthen social impact.

This report by the Centre for Social Impact associate, Rachael Trotman, presents the story of and lessons learned from a collaboration between four philanthropic funders that led to the establishment of VOYCE – Whakarongo Mai. VOYCE is an independent charitable trust for children and young people in foster care.

A video of Tui’s presentation at our 2016 learning event.