Administration
What is a Community Foundation?
Community Foundations are relatively new in New Zealand, so what are they, and how do they work?
Non-profit FAQs
Rotorua – Council funding available for community organisations
Council funding available for community organisations Rotorua Lakes Council is encouraging not-for-profit community groups to apply for the next round of community grants and partnership agreements. These funds are available once every three years and provide recipients with guaranteed annual Read more
Non-profit FAQs
WAHINE – 50th Anniversary
April 10 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the loss of TEV WAHINE at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. The Auckland Seafarers Centre is holding a commemorative service in their chapel at 11.30am <details> and in Wellington the Wahine 50 Read more
Non-profit FAQs
The Role of Your Board in 2018
Here at NFP Resource, we are always on the lookout for useful and interesting articles which we believe will be of help to the Nonprofit community. One that came across our desk recently was entitled: “Choices, Future & Communities: An Read more
Administration
Report Released – Digital Technology in the Not-for-Profit Sector
The results of a survey of 385 not-for-profit organisations in Australia and New Zealand identified a significant under-investment in IT, with many organisations using systems that aren’t working well enough to provide efficient services. Highlights from the survey include: Each Read more
Non-profit FAQs
How will Changes at Facebook affect non-profits?
There has been a lot of discussion about recent changes to the news feed on Facebook. We have received a number of enquiries about this subject and how the changes may affect non-profit groups such as charities. As none of Read more
Accounting
High Level NFP Accounting Seminar
The CAGTR (Centre for Governance Accounting and Taxation Research, Victoria University, Wellington) in association with the XRB are running a Seminar on Thursday, 8 February 2018 from 5.30 – 7.00pm. The seminar is entitled: “Not-For-Profit Accounting: The International Challenge – Read more
Administration
How many charities are there in NZ?
UPDATED A question frequently asked is “how many charities are there in NZ?” The enquirer is usually using the term ‘charity’ to include all manner of non-profit entities and it appears that no-one knows the answer for certain! The Charities Services Read more
Administration
Governing for Good
Governing for good: The joy and pain of not-for-profit governance Researcher Dr Jo Cribb has produced a report about the difficulties faced by not-for-profit boards in an economy of start-ups and listed companies. <Read a press release here> Dr Cribb’s Read more
Non-profit FAQs
New Zealand Charities Technology Awards 2018
Nominations are now open for the New Zealand Charities Technology Awards, organised by Techsoup NZ. Background The New Zealand Charities Technology Awards recognise the very best in technology innovation and technology service excellence from organisations and individuals in the New Zealand charitable Read more
Governance
Co-option
We were recently asked whether a co-opted member would/should have voting rights in the committee to which they were co-opted. Our immediate instinct was that if the person was good enough to be considered worth having on the committee, then Read more
Administration
MORE ON THE PUZZLE OF BUSINESS/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Ian Leader, MD of Local Works Ltd , recently wrote an interesting article which we are pleased to share here … New Zealand ranks right up there in the list of most generous countries. We give freely of our money and Read more