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2024
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
- 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
2023
DECEMBER
- Giving others the gift of charity this year
- Spare a thought for the gravel maggots of the charity world
NOVEMBER
- Inland Revenue: Are trustees using charities to avoid paying tax?
- Take Part In The Ultimate Celebration Of Small Kiwi Charities With The Final Generosity Generator!
OCTOBER
- The Front Page: Cost of living crisis – up to 600,000 Kiwis a month relying on food charity (msn.com)
- Trustees gone from $131m charitable trust after ‘modernisation process’
- Changes To Charity Regulations Affecting All Charities In New Zealand <See this post on this website>
- Sanitarium safe from charity crackdown
SEPTEMBER
- Election 2023: National Party to release tax plan tomorrow, churches and charities to keep tax exemption
- Targeting Big Weet-Bix and mega-churches could be the shrewdest election play yet
- Election 2023: No church tax under National’s plan, Newshub understands
AUGUST
- Woman fined for stealing from charity
- Charity supporting migrant workers accused of trying to stop them talking to media: ‘We would not help you’
- Hunting for a ‘golden unicorn’: how NZ charities find banks constantly get in the way
- UNLTD PARTNERS WITH THE 2023 EFFIE AWARDS FOR THE CHARITY/NOT FOR PROFIT CATEGORY
JULY
- Haphazard, random, and impenetrable: Report accuses banks of making life unreasonably hard for smaller charities and not-for-profits (Also see this page)
- NZ not-for-profit 4 Day Week Global named among Time’s most influential companies
- Food rescue charities face funding struggles amid high demand
- Microsoft taps Dicker Data to power non-profit impact across A/NZ
- Minister Surprises Not-For-Profit And Banking Sectors’ Audience (and See this post)
JUNE
- CAF Charity Resilience Index (UK)
- Chemist Warehouse Raises $350,000 For Kiwi Charities
- Charity gets a helping hand from NZ Post
- Philanthropist Dame Rosie Horton dies, aged 83 – the life and work of the New Zealand charity queen
- Name of former charitable organisation member convicted for child exploitation material permanently suppressed
- Pacific Feminist Fund secures $3 million from Australia and NZ
- Aussie charities take $13.4 billion in donations
MAY
- Courier services are essential for many of the country’s charities.
- Christchurch youth trust among 132 providers to lose funding from Oranga Tamariki
- Charities sitting on millions more in cash than a year ago
APRIL
- Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s Matching Fund open
- NGOs call for ‘urgent wellbeing and financial protection for family carers’
- Balance Sheets essential for Not-for-profit Groups
- Power your nonprofit with Microsoft 365 grants and discounts
- How do you inspire and motivate your non-profit team to achieve your vision?
MARCH
- Gaming machine profit surpasses $1b for the first time in nearly 20 years
- What do you do? A simple business question, yet some people overthink the simple
- Future shock: Should we be worried about the sudden arrival of ChatGPT? (Paywall)
- Is $41 million in savings worth the decimation of Auckland’s community and culture?
FEBRUARY
JANUARY
- Blind Low Vision NZ upheaval backed by inquiry; board worried by staff exodus
- The $1 million library that never really opened… appears to close for good
- Wellington Regional Kidney Society: The charity boss who helped himself to a house
- Investigator who conducted review for Arise Church left with $20k in legal bills
- David Byrne’s media project strikes cheerful note
- How Two Former Debt Collectors Made $6.7 Billion in Medical Debt Disappear
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