There is a wealth of free research, resources and toolkits for kaimahi in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector to use in their work. Here’s a selection of the best from both Hui E! and our partners.
Free stuff
- Chairing a board video toolkit – designed for people who are new or aspiring Board Chairs
- Community Accounting Aotearoa – a free service for community groups that need support and advice on finances
- Community Comms Collective – giving a free communications boost to community groups so their efforts go further
- Community Net Aotearoa – quality resources in one place making it easy for community groups to search and discover the best resources for them
- Community Research – a collection of community research capturing lived experience, research, knowledge and resources
- Community Governance Board Pack – a set of templates for community boards
- Digital Stuff We Love – an introduction to lots of smart digital ways to work, communicate, and engage with your staff and community
- Do you need to set up an organisation? – a simple flowchart to help you decide if you need to set up a charity or legal entity or other ways you can help your community
- Good Governance Code – a set of six principles that define what is good governance for community groups in Aotearoa
- ‘How To Talk About …’ guides – including publications on climate change, COVID-19, systems change, transport mode shift, crime and justice and child wellbeing
- Managing Volunteers – resources to support managers of volunteers and the governance of volunteer organisations
- NZ Navigator – an online self-assessment to help identify your organisation’s strengths and weaknesses
Low cost
- Tick for Governance – an online course for community groups to learn good governance skills and practices
System Frameworks
- Ki te Hoe Capability Building Framework – a framework for funders to support Maori aspirations
- Te Korekoreka – a social innovation framework grounded in the three realms of the Io tradition through which things come into being: Te Ao, the world of light; Te Kore, the world of potential; and Te Pō, the world of darkness
- Te Tokotoru – a systems approach for investing in equity and wellbeing. Whānau have shown that three dimensions of healing, strengthening and responding need to be activated at the same time to create the conditions for wellbeing
Research
- Community Hauora Dashboard – visualises the impact COVID has had on organisations across the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector in Aotearoa
- COVID-19 Hauora Wellbeing Research – 2021 research on the impacts of COVID on community groups
- Impact of COVID on Aotearoa’s smallest community groups – visualised impacts of COVID on community groups including funding & service delivery, needs, and how kaimahi are feeling
- Social Service System: The funding gap and how to bridge it, research funded jointly by social service providers and philanthropic organisations, 2019
- Time to shine, time to take stock, time to shape our future – 2020 research on the impacts of COVID on community groups