"How-to Guide" credits
The following organisations are helping to make quality information available, by editing "How-to Guides". These guides as designed as useful, accurate and current information sources for people working in and with community organisations.
Other organisations are working on Guides, and this page will grow.
Funding Information Service (funding guide)
The Funding Information Service is a not-for-profit organisation collecting and distributing information about funding by way of two searchable computer databases:
FundView contains information about funding for community and groups in New Zealand.
BreakOut contains details of awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand individuals for personal development, principally in academic, artistic, research and sporting fields.
CorporateCitizens holds details of New Zealand businesses that are committed to building relationships with community and voluntary organisations.
The Funding Information Service are recognised as the specialists in funding in New Zealand, and as such are pleased to contribute to the CommunityNet Aotearoa website.
Kotare Research and Education for Social Change (Campaigning guide)
Kotare Research and Education for Social Change is a Charitable Trust established in 1996 by a wide range of people involved in community, church, Tiriti, youth, union, local economic development and adult education.
Kotare was founded in the belief that people from all sectors need to be inspired and supported to develop and sustain their organisations working for justice and positive social change. We saw a need for the potential of flaxroots/grassroots people and communities to be fostered, supported, sharpened and realised. Our initial years of experience have taught us that this potential needs to be realised and encouraged outside of conventional institutions within an independent and creative environment. We run residential and outreach workshops, using interactive and participatory styles of learning.
Kotare Trust believes that for real change to be effective, solutions to poverty, inequity and injustice must come from the people who are most directly affected. Our educators have learned that respecting culture and developing analysis, organising and leadership skills are fundamental requirements for successful community development in all its forms.
Contact us by email: kotare.trust@xtra.co.nz.
Unitec NZ (Research guide)
Unitec New Zealand’s Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management programme provides an interactive learning environment for community organisation leaders around seven centres in New Zealand and in the Pacific.
Unitec is pleased to contribute towards CommunityNet Aotearoa’s aims of providing access to relevant, quality information for whanau, hapu, iwi, and community organisations, through assisting with editing some of the “How-to Guides”. Our teaching staff and students are active practitioners in the community sector, regularly researching and sharing information and experience. Both CommunityNet Aotearoa and Unitec’s programme contribute to ongoing learning for individuals, organisations and strengthening the sector itself – and so it makes good sense to work together!
Visit Unitec’s website for more information about the Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management.
Volunteering New Zealand (Volunteering Guide)
Volunteering New Zealand (VNZ) is an association of volunteer centres and National Organisations with a strong commitment to volunteering. Established in 2001, our mission is to create an environment that supports, promotes, values and encourages effective volunteering by the people of Aotearoa New Zealand.