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By Liz Davies<\/strong>, Chief Executive, SociaLink\/T\u016bhono P\u0101pori<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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It was great to see Margaret Scrimgeour and Chris Johnston from CoLab in Te Puke, and Nicky Austin from Katikati Community Centre at the conference.<\/p>\n

These were my main great takeaways from the conference; anything in italics are my thoughts or ideas\u2026<\/p>\n

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Vu Le \u2013 well-respected American non profit leader developing leaders of colour<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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  • Likened the sector to air, don\u2019t appreciate it until it’s gone \u2013 very invisible<\/li>\n
  • No TV shows about our work \u2013 3rd<\/span> sector, 10% of the workforce<\/li>\n
  • Tired of being under appreciated; NFP\u2019s are like fire fighters, putting out fires; talked about the lack of flexibility re what funders will and won\u2019t fund – e.g. they won\u2019t fund a hose to fire fight but will fund water<\/li>\n
  • Embrace power, be bold, move out of incrementalism, have an audacious ambition \u2013 instead we\u2019re fearful to ask and think big, unlike sectors like Venture Capital<\/li>\n
  • End Hunger Games between each other, fighting for resources; we get levers of power by working together \u2013 uniting<\/li>\n
  • We have become very professional, but lost activist skills \u2013 we\u2019re conflict avoidant and don\u2019t want to offend anyone \u2013 need to offend 25% of people we talk to<\/li>\n
  • Call out funders who won\u2019t pay overheads<\/li>\n
  • Flattering donors too much, like husband centric marriage \u2013 thank you note for doing dishes \u2013 often donors are wealth hoarders, avoiding tax, then they choose a cause from a catalogue<\/li>\n
  • A lot of wealth gained from colonisation – i.e. stolen indigenous land, then they avoid tax, exploit workers, then give charities donations \u2013 a form of money laundering<\/li>\n
  • We are subsidising the government given they often pay 70% of a service to be delivered<\/li>\n
  • Need to be a lot more vocal \u2013 stop being air<\/li>\n
  • Social investment and social enterprise are red herrings from addressing inequity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Te Tiriti o Waitangi \u2013 Nathan Rikki<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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    • In the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi M\u0101ori ceded sovereignty; 39 chiefs signed this version; the M\u0101ori version did not cede sovereignty, and 540 chiefs signed this version.<\/li>\n
    • For M\u0101ori, everything moves at the speed of trust \u2013 cuppa tea tanga<\/li>\n
    • He challenged when thinking about your organisation and the extent to which it reflect te Tiriti o Waitangi, what tells him that your organisations values and celebrates his M\u0101ori culture and heritage? How would he know this organisation is in NZ?<\/li>\n
    • Other cultures can go home and experience their culture, NZ is it for M\u0101ori, can\u2019t go anywhere else<\/li>\n
    • He quoted someone (sorry- I didn\u2019t write the name down) regarding Tangata Tiriti\u2019s approach to working with M\u0101ori – lead, follow or get out of the way\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Power to the People \u2013 Nau Mai Ra \u2013 Ezra Hinewani<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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      • Salvation Army and St Vincents in the Waikato have set up Good Power which offers affordable electricity for those who need it the most. Weekly payments, flat rate of 27 cents per KwH with a daily fixed charge of 60 cents, no credit checks, no fixed term, no disconnection\/reconnection fees. Payments also contribute to a Good Power fund which provides a revenue stream for Salvation Army and Vinnies.<\/li>\n
      • Nau Mai Ra set up the platform and talks to the main gentailers and the charities get the customers.<\/li>\n
      • Could be worth exploring if this could be introduced to the Bay of Plenty.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        New Philanthropy Capital (UK)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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        • Spatial map shows less charities are located in more deprived areas<\/li>\n
        • The impact of an organisation is not driving strategy \u2013 not aware of any CEO that has been fired due to low impact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Artificial Intelligence \u2013 Julian Moore<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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          • AI can:\n
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            • generate a website and\/or CRM; what used to cost $8k and take a techie two weeks can be done very quickly<\/li>\n
            • It can write newsletters and prepare power point presentations<\/li>\n
            • It can record and provide a transcript of a meeting, summarise the meeting, identify action points and allocate the actions to people \u2013 still need to review the minutes and actions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • You can create an avatar, choose the voice, have it speak in any language \u2013 could be a good way of working with people where English is their second language as long as the translation is reliable<\/em><\/li>\n
            • You can go into ChatGPT settings to stop it mining your information<\/li>\n
            • Suno \u2013 can create songs, you say the topic, what music style you want and it will create a song<\/li>\n
            • Random fact \u2013 if you take a photo of the food in your refrigerator and ask for recipes it will give you recipes for the food that you have<\/li>\n
            • AI doesn\u2019t use much power and as it develops it will require less power<\/li>\n
            • Cybersecurity issues haven\u2019t increased due to AI<\/li>\n
            • The industries he thinks will be most negatively affected by AI are call centres and programmers; it will enhance other industries, much like a calculator enhances calculations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              Dangerous Times, Exciting Opportunities \u2013 Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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              • You don\u2019t need to necessarily grow an organisation in order to increase impact. He used the example of Save the Children in the UK who shrank to 40% of their original size and increased their impact. Instead of STC delivering childcare in vulnerable communities, they supported local communities to run their own childcare.<\/li>\n
              • He referred to the book by Leslie Crutchfield and Health McLeod Grant (2008) \u2018Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact NFP\u2019s:\n
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                • None included having a big budget, low overheads, having the perfect mission statement, break through new ideas, high brand awareness or good management practices. Rather it was more about how not for profits operated outside the boundaries of their organisation rather than their internal operations<\/li>\n
                • Six practices were:\n
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                  1. Combine advocacy and services \u2013 more powerful to do both<\/li>\n
                  2. Work with business \u2013 use market forces in service of your mission e.g. consumer forces<\/li>\n
                  3. Nurture not for profit networks \u2013 give information away, collaborate<\/li>\n
                  4. Engage individuals \u2013 how can we help our volunteers, donors and supporters to be ambassadors of our cause \u2013 give them training, scripts etc to be ambassadors. Too often volunteers, donors and supporters are seen as a resource we can extract from rather than inspire them to be evangelists of our cause<\/li>\n
                  5. Masters at adaptation \u2013 welcome change, new opportunities<\/li>\n
                  6. Shared, flat distributed leadership \u2013 everyone sees themselves as leaders<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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These were my main great takeaways from the conference; anything in italics are my thoughts or ideas\u2026   Vu Le \u2013 well-respected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"resource_type":[],"class_list":["post-61563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-tautoko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nKey Takeaways from CNA Collective Currents Conference - 24 & 25 October 2024 - SociaLink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Social Return on Investment quandary. 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