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2025
OCTOBER
- Amid a charity funding squeeze, could payroll giving be the way to go?
- ‘Never enough to go around’: Charities facing hard calls as cost-of-living bites
- Trade Me founder Sam Morgan: philanthropy is the only sane choice for the wealthy
- ‘Excessive’: Two Mike King charity execs earned combined $527k after $24m Government funding boost
SEPTEMBER
- Sarah Ferguson dropped from multiple charities over Epstein email
- Most-confiscated airport checked luggage items now going to charity
- The Catalytic Foundation joins forces with Xero to empower Kiwi charities through financial literacy
AUGUST
- Jobseekers facing benefit sanctions have to volunteer but charities say they’re swamped
- Strengthening or Stifling: Taxation and the Not-For-Profit Sector
- Gumboot Friday secures Government funding through 2026 for mental health
JULY
- Charities see alarming levels of poverty as families struggle
- Helping ‘wealthiest generation in history’ give money away
- Rainbow charity Outline in limbo as ‘questionable financial practices’ alleged
- The Wellbeing Protocol: How to beat loneliness, and other goals for good community funding
- Greenpeace should lose charitable status – Feds
- Charities see alarming levels of poverty as families struggle
- Op-shopping is ‘trendy’ now – is that making it more expensive?
- Waipareira Trust wins legal point against Charities Board but fails to quash deregistration notice
JUNE
- To be or not to be a mutual association: Inland Revenue proposal to hit not-for-profits
- Waipareira Trust goes to court to block charity deregistration
- Trump Budget Bill Spells Trouble for Nonprofits (USA)
- Conservatives Attack Nonprofits on Capitol Hill (USA)
- Opposition mounts to new tax for organisations
- Australia’s charity sector is growing – but many smaller charities are doing it tough
- Kerre Woodham: Charities don’t need non-complying beneficiaries
MAY
- Charity law expert Michael Gousmett dies
- Governance mentoring programme returns
- Did you know these well-known businesses are actually charities… and exempt from taxes?
- ‘It’s the Whanganuis of this world that get forgotten about’: New AI-assisted service launches for Techweek
- Sound The Sirens: Are Voluntary Associations Under Attack?
- Charities at risk due to donors’ reluctance to cover ‘unexciting’ running costs (UK)
APRIL
- Thousands of community clubs yet to comply with new incorporated societies legislation
- ‘Too hard’: Charities spared from tax changes in upcoming Budget
- Why religion should still be spared taxation
- NZ Post relaunches programme offering thousands of free courier services to Kiwi charities
- Charities Services scrutinise Liz Kelly’s centre over Facebook post
- On The Up: Volunteering from home – the trend adding even more value to NZ’s $4 billion industry
- Law-breaking Greenpeace Must Lose Charity Status
- Charities’ income and taxation data lacking, accounting body says
- More New Zealanders are volunteering, but shift seen towards direct help, new data reveals
- Time for NZ to revisit 400-year-old charitable purposes, tax experts say
- Child safety advocate raises alarm over regulatory gaps for non-funded charities
- Taxing charities and not-for-profits: Can we find the right balance?
MARCH
- Victim Support ditching volunteers from July
- Government will change charity tax rules at its peril
- Strip Destiny’s charitable status? Turns out it’s not quite that simple
- Why an atheist academic changed her mind on churches’ tax status
- The viability of some charities could rest on how they’re taxed, we should be cautious about changing the rules – academics say
- Guilty plea to million-dollar fraud from Porirua charity
- Emma Cantrell: A shift in the perception of small charities is long overdue (UK)
- Should Canada’s religious charities lose tax status? Readers weigh in (CANADA)
FEBRUARY
- New report shows just 6% of wills contain charity bequests
- Private schools and Jehovah’s Witnesses: 550 rates-exempt Wellington properties
- Important training workshops for community groups
- With billions in ‘profit’ exempt from tax, changes to NZ’s charity rules are long overdue
- Labour MP calls for Destiny Church to lose its charity status
JANUARY
- How nonprofits abroad can fill gaps when the US government cuts off foreign aid
- Taxing charities’ business income would have ‘devastating’ impact on communities
- Opinion: Why charities should not support political parties
- Charities’ $2 billion in untaxed profits
- Opinion: Supreme Court matters: charities law and judicial social engineering
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