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Hui E! and Ignite Consultants announce new partnership to support grassroots community groups in Wellington

Hui E! is delighted to announce a new collaborative partnership with Ignite Consultants. This will help us offer more support to small community groups in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington.  Over the past two years, Hui E! has supported more than 100 community groups across the motu with our Hoa Pūtea…...

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What the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector needs to be sustainable

FROM KAIWHAKAHAERE MATUA, ROCHELLE STEWART-ALLEN Funding: seen as the cause of, and solution to, the majority of the problems for not-for-profit organisations. Community organisations often start their lives as small, voluntary groups. They initially run on passion and spare time, but eventually reach a stage where they need money if…...

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Hui E! meets Good Data Institute: Visualising a COVID Recovery Path for the NZ Community Sector

As a peak body for the community sector, Hui E! is delighted to announce our partnership with the Good Data Institute (GDI). GDI will be running a 6-week hackathon with 17 data analytics professionals using data collected about the impact of COVID on community organisations.  Hui E! holds two datasets…...

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Civil Society OGP briefing to Minister Hipkins – He Rau Ringa e Oti Ai (Many Hands Make Light Work)

In December eight civil society organisations gave a ‘summer reading’ briefing to Minister Hipkins in his capacity as Minister for Public Service. This followed our work over the past year, alongside other civil society organisations, on improving New Zealand’s commitment to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The full Civil Society OGP…...

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Four quick wins for the community sector

Four ways we can support the community and voluntary sector - starting today....

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Collective Changemaker Kōrero

There is growing recognition of the need for significant shifts in how we live and work, and a growing range of initiatives developing and testing new approaches, but the risk remains that these threads are not connected in this ecosystem, they are not amplified and thus remain undervalued. Mā mua…...

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Reflections on 2021: Hopeful and proud

As the year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on the work at Hui E! It’s been a hard year for many organisations and the communities they’re supporting....

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Community organisations struggling to keep pace with demand for services

Community organisations are running on empty after 18 months of pandemic pressures, new research from Volunteering New Zealand and Hui E! Community Aotearoa shows....

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How has COVID-19 impacted the sector?

Be the first to hear about the results of the 2021 COVID-19 hauora/wellbeing research. Join us for one of two online webinars....

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What is a peak body, anyway?

Pou Kaiārahi Rochelle Stewart-Allen explains what peak bodies really do and why they're important....

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