Fundraising
New bequest service launched
A new bequest service has launched for charities and estate lawyers wanting to ensure that bequest details in a will are correct.
Awards
Search Inside Yourself training – Free Place offered
The Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program helps people and organizations to bring out the best in themselves, from the inside out. Created by leading experts in neuroscience and developed at Google, our mindfulness & emotional intelligence training have been described as “life changing.” We make personal & professional transformations accessible Read more
Audits and Finance
2018 Global Trends in Giving Report published
The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report has just been published. The report is based upon a survey of over 6000 donors in 119 countries and summarises donor data across six continents It examines the impact of technology, gender, generation, ideology, religion, and donor size upon giving. The report also features Read more
Non-profit FAQs
Applications open for charities to get $60,000 from Round the Bays
Ports of Auckland Round the Bays organisers are looking to donate $60,000 to three charities for next year’s fun run. Set for March 3, participants can walk, run or jog 8.5 kilometres from the city along the waterfront to St Heliers Bay for the annual event. Now, the organisers are calling Read more
Administration
Are you setting up a new charity/NFP?
Researcher Maureen Macnamara writes: “I’m looking for people who are in the process of starting up a new charity, not-for-profit or social enterprise, to participate in a research project I’m leading (run through Victoria University) The project focuses on the very, very early stages of emergence – that is, the Read more
Funding
PATHWAY TO FUNDING EXCELLENCE
Fundraising training for those who work in the NFP sector is woefully inadequate
Administration
… why we need to shine a light on charities
This article contains a number of lessons from which those in the not-for-profit sector will do well to learn.
Awards
Winston Churchill Fellowship – Applications Open
Applications for the 2019 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust – NZ Fellowships are now open! The Fellowships were established in 1965 to help kiwis travel overseas to learn from others and study topics that will advance their occupation, trade, industry, profession or community and benefit New Zealand. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Read more
Accounting
Upcoming tax changes that might affect your charity
The following information, which repeats information from IRD, was posted by DIA Charities Services on their website on 17 July 2018. As the information is of potential importance to many nonprofits, we have reproduced it here in toto. The blog post itself can be found on the Charities website here. Read more
Non-profit FAQs
Lotteries Grant funds mentoring for nonprofits in the Bay of Plenty
Lotteries grant funds mentoring opportunities for nonprofit organisations in the Bay of Plenty.
Accounting
Free accounting assistance for NonProfits in Auckland
SOURCE: ANCAD Auckland Community Accounting Seeking Not for Profits Auckland Community Accounting will be training additional senior accounting students from Massey University in July to work with Not for Profits for the 2nd Semester August onwards. Auckland Community Accounting is a free service offering support and assistance to Community groups, including Read more
Audits and Finance
Impact Investing
Q: What is Impact Investing? A: This is not a subject with which NFP Resource is very familiar so we have undertaken some basic research. Impact Investing may be defined as “Investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable social and environmental impact alongside Read more