Governance & Management
This Guide is designed to help you ensure your organisation establishes effective practices and policies to develop and maintain good governance.
NOTE: The new Community Resource Kit covers similar topics for new or small organisations. See especially 02 planning and 04 governance.
This How-to Guide will be revised to remove duplication, when time allows.
Contents include a board orientation checklist, links to sample policies, and alternative structures and models.
While governance can be defined simply as: setting and monitoring the direction of an organisation; ensuring it remains financially sound; and ensuring legal compliance, in practice it is never that simple. Good governance depends on developing good working relationships with those who do the day-to-day work of the organisation.
Resources collected in this toolkit are designed to help you access quality and up-to-date information to assist in building and maintaining these relationships.
Please email relevant news, links or other information to information@community.net.nz
Currently, we are looking for a new editor for this How To Guide, with the Departments' Digital Strategy Team looking after it in the meantime. If you have an interest in Governance and Management and would like to take on this role, please email us as above.
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Date added: 9 July 2008
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What drives the men and women who run New Zealand's not-for-profit sector?
Date added: 26 June 2006
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Date added: 24 June 2008
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The Managing Well resource catalogue (online in the Community Centre section of this web site) includes references or links to manuals, websites, information sheets, books, and other documents, and a list of organisations that can help you in this area.
Date updated: 7 December 2009
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Downloadable workbooks on developing job descriptions for board members, developing boards, developing policies and other topics.
Date updated: 27 November 2005
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Not-For-Profit Management is an e-magazine published by the Not-For-Profit Network (Australia). The magazine detailes the key issues and trends affecting non-profit organisations.
Date updated: 6 January 2010
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This sample set of board policies provides a good starting point for any organisation wanting to develop board policies.
Date updated: 12 January 2006
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Here are some templates to help you find the right people for your board.
Date updated: 12 January 2006
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This is a checklist that can be used with a board/committee to enable them to consider the range of issues they are responsible for. It is intended to raise issues for ongoing discussion about the role of the board/committee
Date updated: 11 January 2006
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These two joint Te Puni Kōkiri / Federation of Māori Authorities studies each contain 10 case studies from a range of for-profit and not-for-profit Māori organisations.
Date updated: 15 May 2009
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Te Whaiti School in Te Urewera have developed a leadership model for innovative organisations called Tipu Ake ki te Ora. The model is easily applied, action focused and exploits Kiwi style teamwork.
Date updated: 15 September 2006
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A extensive series of case studies and articles looking at teams and team management.
Date updated: 23 November 2004
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A range of articles about setting up running and evaluating boards. This website also has a wide range of other resources for community groups and their boards.
Date added: 7 November 2002
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This Australian website has a wide range of articles, links, and resources covering topics including evaluation, policy development, income generation, sample questionnaires, community development ...
Date added: 6 November 2002
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NZ membership organisation providing support for community organisations
Date added: 6 November 2002
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