Adult and Community Education (ACE) Aotearoa is the lead body for adult and community educators and a voice for adult learners.
ACE Aotearoa is a dynamic network of adult and community educators committed to a society based on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a guiding framework that enables ACE Aotearoa to give due recognition to the status of Māori as Tāngata whenua, and Tāngata Tiriti as citizens of our shared country. It actively promotes and supports the diversity of lifelong learning in Aotearoa New Zealand and fosters collaboration and cooperation to the advantage of adult learners, educators, and providers.
ACE Aotearoa is a membership organisation that represents both its members and the wider ACE sector. It has three key focus areas: strategic sector leadership, sector capability building, and sector coordination.
Ara Taiohi is the peak body for youth development in Aotearoa. We are a national membership based organisation with over 1600 personal and organisational members representing a diverse range of groups and practitioners that work with young people. Our vision is to see an empowered ecosystem of youth development that support rangatahi to thrive.
Community Housing Aotearoa is a peak body for New Zealand’s community housing sector. Our 103 full members house approximately 35,000 people nationally across 18,520 homes. Our 78 partner members include developers, consultants and local councils.
Our Vision is to make sure every New Zealander is well-housed in a warm, safe, dry and affordable home. This is a human right.
Community Networks Aotearoa is an umbrella organisation for local community netoworks. Our membership includes not-for-profit and voluntary social service organistions all over the country. We a amplify and support the community sector by sharing the collective voice, consult with the government and other sectors to improve capacity, facilitate the development of networks and nurture partnerships accross the sector. Training in areas such as governance strengthen the sectors capacity. We are involved with research on the sector such as our State of the Sector Survey 2024. We are commited to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and are guided by our membership.
Disabled Persons Assembly NZ (DPA) is a not-for-profit pan-impairment Disabled People’s Organisation run by and for disabled people. We work on systemic change for the equity of disabled people through leadership, information and advice, advocacy, and monitoring of law, policy and practice relevent to disabled people and their whānau. We recognise:
• Māori as Tangata Whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand;
• Disabled people as experts on their own lives;
• Social Model of Disability as the guiding principle for interpreting disability and impairment;
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the basis for disabled people’s relationship with the State.
EHA is a leading network of over 20 community-led hubs, from Kaitaia to Riverton, working together to protect, nurture, and improve environmental outcomes. Since 2015, we’ve connected regional hubs, leading organisations, and changemakers to unlock the power of local knowledge and create lasting, positive change for te taiao (the environment) and future generations.
Hui E! is the peak body for the community sector in Aotearoa. Established in 2014, Hui E! weaves together community infrastructure by supporting collaborative efforts towards transformation systems change. As the convener of the Community Constellation Hui E! creates space for innovation that is community powered. Through all it’s work, Hui E! is informed by the Treaty of Waitangi and demonstrates this commitment through co-governance models.
Inspiring Communities is a training and capability building organisation. We support grassroots community-led development groups, and work with government and other agencies to better understand how to meaningfully engage with community.
At LEAD, we support community CEOs and board members, helping you embrace the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for impactful change. We conduct research into areas of interest for not for profit governance and leadership to continue to grow and develop.
Our mission is to call forth a just and compassionate society for Aotearoa, through our commitment to our faith and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. NZCCSS represents over 100 organisations providing a range of social support services across Aotearoa. Our role as an umbrella organisation is to advocate for changes that improve the lives of the people our members support, coordinate across our members, undertake research and new resource creation and amplify the voice of the community to decision makers.
The NZ Navigator Trust is the curator and steward of three digital spaces – CommunitynNet Aotearoa, Digital Stuff We Love, and NZ Navigator. These platforms that provide easy on-line access to a number of high quality tools and resources specifically designed to support the development of community organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Users learn at their own pace with peer-to-peer support to gain insight and skills in the digital tools that will amplify the impact of their organisations.
Atamira | Platform Trust is a membership organisation and peak-body that represents the mental health and addiction (MH&A) non-governmental organisation (NGO) and community sector. We represent 95 MH&A NGOs and community organisations that provide support to tāngata whai ora (people seeking wellness) including Māori and Pasifika providers, and whānau and peer-led services.
In addition to our members, Platform represents a wider network of MH&A NGOs, with an estimated workforce of 5,166 staff, who share the same aspiration of an MH&A system and sector that is driven by the need for better and more equitable outcomes for all.
At Powerdigm, we facilitate collaboration across sectors to drive lasting change. Our expertise lies in influencing change at national and local levels of the system, growing capability within organisations, and activating expertise within communities. Powerdigm operates a ‘for good’ business model, working with the Inspiring Communities Board, and returning a percentage of revenue to Inspiring Communities, to support the growth of community-led development in Aotearoa.
REAP Aotearoa is the national body that represents 13 REAPs (Rural Education Activities Programmes) across Aotearoa, delivering education opportunities to rural communities to make a difference to the lives and long-term plans of rural people. The REAP network helps people in rural and provincial communities improve their lives and contribute to our society whatever their stage of life. We maintain a strong focus on improving the lives of New Zealanders, evidencing a range of outcomes resulting from our collaborative work. Collectively, REAPs support a rural/provincial population of nearly 500,000, covering 22 Territorial Local Authorities.
Repair Network Aotearoa, a not-for-profit trust, is dedicated to cultivating a robust repair culture throughout New Zealand. By empowering a diverse range of stakeholders, including individuals, businesses, and educational institutions, with the commitment to prioritise repair, we foster a nationwide network connected through collaborative projects and advocacy initiatives to extend the lifespan of goods and minimising environmental impact.
As the national membership-based organisation open to all community-based social service providers, we champion what our members need to work effectively alongside children, rangatahi and whānau in their communities and rōhe. We take an intergenerational view, focusing on the aspirations of families and whānau and what they need to thrive now and into the future.
SociaLink – Tūhono Pāpori is the umbrella peak body for the social and community sector and represents over 1500 organisations and individuals working in the Western Bay of Plenty
SociaLink walks alongside social service providers, community and Māori organisations to strengthen their capability as they deliver services to their communities, as well as advocates for the sectors interests, social justice and equity of opportunity for all people living in the WBOP.
We are focused on connecting and empowering communities and community-based action across Aotearoa Te Waipounamu.
We create and support cross-sector community networks that reduce discrimination and strengthen belonging.
We do this by seeding and supporting cross-sector action groups, delivering workshops, and offering advisory services.
Our work is centred on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tino rangatiratanga, which are essential in forging a respectful and inclusive future for our country.
Tangata Whenua, Community Research is a trusted online hub for community-led research and knowledges.
We champion and support community-led knowledge-making because it plays a vital role in decolonising knowledge systems, relationships, power, and privilege.
Our forums are inclusive spaces where researchers, community members, and the wider sector can connect, collaborate, share ideas and resources, and explore new ways of working.
We amplify diverse voices and the aspirations of tangata whenua and communities across Aotearoa. Our role is to elevate community research and share it widely to drive positive change.
All of this mahi contributes to our vision: a more equitable and inclusive Aotearoa, grounded in community knowledge.
Tūao Aotearoa Volunteering New Zealand is an association of volunteer centres, and national and regional organisations with a commitment to volunteering in Aotearoa New Zealand. We believe volunteering is crucial for strong communities, and community organisations rely on volunteers. We support organisations to manage volunteers effectively, and speak up for volunteers and volunteering.
To lead and promote the Y movement across Aotearoa New Zealand in partnership with member Associations. The Y has been in New Zealand since 1855.
Community Waikato work with charitable organizations, Māori entities and community groups to build organizational capacity and strengthen our local communities. We connect people, broker relationships and encourage the sector to collaborate. We have a team who work directly with communities, marae, organisations and groups to support their visioning, planning, governance, operations, policy policies and processes.
Community Waikato also offers opportunities for learning through training and professional development. We are an advocate for the sector, and we are fund managers for the Tindall Foundation. We support networks and assist the sector and organisations to collaborate.
Our work focuses on opportunities to create change, development for the sector and greater impact for our communities in the Waikato/Tainui region.We also advocate for systemic change, to address equity issues and to remove barriers for access to participation.
The Rainbow Support Collective (RSC) connects peer-led LGBTQIA+ organisations who provide lifespan service delivery and peer-support services in Aotearoa. RSC acknowledges the strength gained when our organisations collaborate, and this collective seeks to remedy the inequity of voices currently within the sector by challenging and redirecting power imbalances and creating systemic change for LGBTQIA+ people within Aotearoa.
RSC is a unique collective that looks beyond competitive models and provides an access point for external stakeholders to intersect with our organisations as a whole.
Internally, RSC allows for essential community building by providing relational development and through deepening the connections between our organisations.
Collectively RSC demands a revolutionary future for LGBTQIA+ human rights in Aotearoa.
The RST Network is the collective of 17 Regional Sports Trusts (RSTs) across the motu who work with, and within, communities to increase opportunities for New Zealanders to be physically active through play, active recreation and sport. The 17 RSTs have chosen to collaborate as a network to advocate as one, increase organisational capability and progress their bi-cultural approaches because they believe that as a result each RST will be able to better work into priority communities to lift physical activity levels of those missing out. The RST Network whakatauki ‘Kia uru kahikatea te tū’ encapsulates this belief – it talks about standing as a grove of kahikatea and achieving success through unity of purpose. Stronger together.
Making Everything Achievable are an indigenous social impact agency dedicated to enabling indigenous to indigenous trade, community development, governance, research and storytelling.
