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

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

Reconnecting Northland’s Eamon Nathan on lockdowns and our connection with the natural world.

The 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.

National COVID-19 impact survey reveals the impact on the community sector.

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.

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.