Newsletters:

Our newsletter goes out to our members every fortnight

 

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Wed December 18, 2024 – Great offers & news to highlight in our final newsletter for 2024

Wed December 4, 2024 – Need help with finances or your treaty bill submission?

Wed November 20, 2024 – Does your organisation need some help in these uncertain times?

Wed November 6, 2024 – Collaboration, especially important in these tough times

Wed October 23, 2024 – Do you know what is meant by ‘Social Investment’?

Wed October 9, 2024 – The State of the Sector Report is out!

Wed September 25, 2024 – Training in Canva and more

Wed September 11, 2024 – Free Organisational Advisor time and other opportunities/updates

Wed August 28, 2024 – Events you won’t want to miss!

Wed August 14, 2024  – Lots of events to tell you about

Wed July 31, 2024 – Funding tips and more

Wed July 17, 2024 – Tell us about your funding changes, have your say!

Wed July 3, 2024 – Who are you going to vote for? This could help

Other News & Blogs:

Social Security Amendment Bill – submissions due by Fri 10 Jan

By Liz Davies, Chief Executive, SociaLink/Tūhono Pāpori   I hope everyone has had a wonderful break and have been able to soak in the lovely weather as you celebrated the New Year.  At the risk of sounding like the Grinch, I do want to alert...

Knowing your Worth

Do you know how much it really costs you to deliver a service or programme? If you don’t know the costs of delivering the service, how can you communicate it to others, including funders? Often organisations undervalue the services and programmes...

Key Update from Minister Nicola Willis about Social Investment

By Liz Davies, Chief Executive, SociaLink/Tūhono Pāpori You may have attended a webinar, along with about 800 others, in late November hosted by Hui E!, to which Minister Nicola Willis presented about social investment. I won’t go through the whole...

Strategies to Improve Financial Sustainability

By Liz Davies, Chief Executive, SociaLink/Tūhono Pāpori   SociaLink held a workshop in late November for organisations interested in effectively positioning their organisation to navigate changes in funding. We talked about the recent social...

Key Takeaways from the Community Governance Aotearoa (CGA) Conference – Rotorua – 12 November 2024

By Liz Davies, Chief Executive, SociaLink/Tūhono Pāpori   It was great to be joined by Soi Pearson, one of SociaLink’s Co-Chairs, and Christa George, SociaLink’s Organisational Advisor.   Rose Hiha-Agnew, CEO of CGA   CGA surveyed...

Key Takeaways from CNA Collective Currents Conference – 24 & 25 October 2024

By Liz Davies, Chief Executive, SociaLink/Tūhono Pāpori   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. These were my main great takeaways...

Social Investment Explainer available now

The current Government has announced its commitment to a Social Investment approach. In addition to her role as Finance Minister, Nicola Willis has also been appointed Minister for Social Investment. What's SOCIAL INVESTMENT all about and how could...

Survey Report out now: WBOP Social and Community Service Providers on Funding and Service Demand

SociaLink has observed cost of living and other social-economic and political factors are affecting the environment in which social and community sector not-for-profit organisations operate. There are reports of reduced income from donations or...

The Social Return on Investment Quandary

Many social service, health and community service providers are having conversations internally about whether they should undertake a Social Return on Investment (SROI) review to assess the impact and value of their services and programmes. An SROI...

SociaLink’s Annual Report 2024

"It is with great pleasure that we present the Annual Report for 2023-2024. Reflecting on the past year, we are filled with a sense of pride and optimism. This report highlights the strategic achievements, strengthened partnerships, and governance...

Social Sector Commissioning

Social Sector Commissioning As part of the government’s goal of improving how it works with social service providers, it is planning wide community consultation on Social Sector commissioning in the first half of this year. An official update was released in August...

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Does Pay Equity Exist?

In our experience, most Not for Profit (NFP) organisations would agree that they strive to develop remuneration systems that are: Fair and equitable Defensible Transparent (some more than others) Affordable Achieving this in good times is a challenge and when the...

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Funding secrets for social agencies

Not -for-profit agencies around the Western Bay of Plenty can learn the secrets to getting funding at a SociaLink session next week. SociaLink, the Western Bay umbrella group for social service providers and community organisations, is organising a seminar for...

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Enhancing Data Skills for Social Good

The social sector has within it an enormous number of passionate, committed people, who every day put their skills, energy and the limited resources available to them to work, to enable positive changes for individuals, whānau, communities, and the causes they care so...

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Exemptions for the use of face masks

As you may be aware from today the use of masks or face coverings are mandatory for: • people travelling on public transport services in, into and out of the Auckland region (except for children under 12 years of age and a person who has a medical condition that...

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