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2025
JUNE
- 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
2024
DECEMBER
- Charity struck off for ‘significant failings’ after Stuff investigation
- Regulator to deregister Waipareira over political donations
- Comment – Taking the charity approach this Christmas – Diana Clement
NOVEMBER
- The show must go on for Canterbury StarJam crew
- Auditor-General damns Govt’s charity funding processes
- Is NZ’s charity clothing donation model broken?
- Blind Low Vision NZ admits it ‘slipped back’ with blind people in senior positions
- Government plans to review tax status of commercial charities and the NZ Super Fund but wants policy changes to be fiscally neutral
- Mike King’s charity I Am Hope accused of greenwashing over climate anxiety booklet
- Bay of Plenty non-profit organisations struggling for funding
OCTOBER
- Auditor-General damns Govt’s charity funding processes – Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup
- Permanent online home for charity lotteries
- Naomi Campbell admits failures at charity, denies misconduct amid financial scandal
- Government’s Gumboot Friday funding found to be ‘unusual and inconsistent’
- Business income and charities, you’re not off the hook just yet
SEPTEMBER
- Opinion – In tough economic times, not-for-profit does not mean made for loss – Monique Forbes
- Online charity lotteries Bill passes first reading
- Mysterious charity with no accounts, website or physical presence under investigation after receiving $500,000 in grants – with no apparent results
- Auckland Muslim school caught up in receivership stoush involving warring charity and nearly $2 million in trust funds
AUGUST
- The mysterious and quiet closure of a once loud, proud charity
- Nicola Willis puts new Social Investment Agency at heart of Government
- Charities hope to share in $1.25 trillion of Baby Boomer wealth left behind in wills
- Where there is a will there is a way – Diana Clement
JULY
- Charity lotteries to be permitted to operate online
- Investigation into Waipareira political donations referred to Charities Registration Board
- Charities don’t fund political parties (opinion)
- Failed ‘Win a house’ raffle participants all refunded, charity leader says
- Arise Church on notice after charities probe (paywall)
- Rotorua Whakaora food charity makes seniors’ day after queue ‘pushing and shoving’
- The challenges faced by advocacy organisations seeking charitable status
- A New Programme Offering Planet-friendly Guidance For NZ’s Not-for-profits
JUNE
- SBS Bank accused of betraying long-term customers
- Charity head is convicted fraudster and ex-bankrupt
- Employee stole from non-profit using credit card
- It’s not a scam, says win-a-house promoter
MAY
- A New Programme Offering Planet-friendly Guidance For NZ’s Not-for-profits
- All staff from charity Keep New Zealand Beautiful resign
- Charity behind ‘Win A House’ promotion not yet registered, using raffle money to buy house
- What Is Nonprofit Marketing? Definition, How It Works, and Types
- The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
- Community funding lacks transparency and accountability
- Māori non-profit organisation makes history at advertising awards
APRIL
- Mental Health Foundation laying off 18% of staff, other charities also facing cuts
- NZ charities are in a “dire and reasonably existential” state – Lawyer
MARCH
- Charities Act Amendments have implications for local charities
- Financial reporting resources for public benefit entities
FEBRUARY
- ‘Shameful’: Rage at proposed rent, fees increases of 240% for charities in Tauranga
- Financial reporting resources for public benefit entities
- New Zealand’s highest paid charity executives revealed
- Mentoring Support For Not-for-profit Organisations
JANUARY
- Sanitarium safe from charity crackdown
- The social return on investment for charities
- China’s revised charity law lacks incentives to spur donations despite ‘common prosperity’ drive
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