TechSoup New Zealand
TechSoup New Zealand provides donated and discounted computer software and hardware products and services from companies such as Microsoft, Norton, Remarkit. You can get all the latest Microsoft, antivirus and antispam products as well as refurbished desktop PCs. More donors are being added to the scheme all the time.
This is an exciting programme to assist eligible New Zealand charities, voluntary and community groups to build their ICT capacity—one that has already assisted organisations world-wide to make huge savings in their operations.
The TechSoup New Zealand Programme is provided by Social Development Partners in partnership with Connecting Up Australia and TechSoup Global.
ComVoices
ComVoices is an independent network of leading national community and voluntary organisations set up to promote and make visible the enormous contribution of the community and voluntary sector to New Zealand society.
Its primary aim is to ensure the sector has a powerful and collaborative voice in the community and at Government level. ComVoices was launched as a collaborative project in July 2005 to raise the community & voluntary sector’s profile.
The coalition is made up of national organisations that reach across all New Zealand society, and the individual organisations all communicate their views and issues to the group. We work together through reflecting and promoting the value and common concerns of the sector through information, advocacy and dialogue as well as encouraging regional, national and cross-sector networking and information sharing.
Keeping it Legal
We have developed this online resource in association with the Office of the Community & Voluntary Sector (OCVS)to give organisations, groups, trusts and societies simple, accurate information about their legal obligations.
Collaborative Voices
The Collaborative Voices radio programme is an initiative of both Social Development Partners and the New Zealand Council of Social Services (NZCOSS), as a way of informing people in our sector about topical issues.
Collaborative Voices tries to profile people who are actively demonstrating how organisations are working in our sector.
The programme is presented by Ros Rice, NZCOSS, and David Barrow, Social Development Partners. Ros has experience in community radio broadcasting and while David is newer to this media, he is a seasoned communications professional. Both are based in Wellington and they interview people either connected to or involved with the social services and community sector.
Collaborative Voices is replayed by all eleven Access stations throughout the country.
Workplace Wellbeing
Workplace Wellbeing is a collaboration between the Social Development Partners, NZ Council of Social Services, Community Waikato and the Service and Food Workers Union and the Public Service Association to promote and support good-faith based, productive employment relations in the community and voluntary sector.
Workplace Wellbeing supports the development and maintenance of good employment practice and relationships in our sector.
The project team has run a series of successful workshops for community sector employers on Effective Employment Relationships and produced the ManaMahi Resource, a guide to good employment practices in the sector. This contains 17 best practice guides and 6 resource booklets relating to a wide range of employment relations issues.<
CommunityCentral
Unfortunately, owing to the unavailability of funding to enable us to continue to manage and develop this site, as at 30 June 2011 the site has closed.
Please Contact Us if you have any queries or need information about any e-newsletters, private workspaces etc. that previously existed on CommunityCentral.
Value Added by Voluntary Agencies (VAVA)
The concept behind the VAVA project is simple: to examine the value we add to the economy and society. This project follows two phases, the first Counting for Something in September 2004, followed by a further analysis with the publication of Counting for More in December 2007.
The project is about shifting paradigms in our own thinking and the thinking of those who interact with voluntary and community sector organisations. For the first time we are now able to present practical methodology, templates and a framework for putting the measurement of outcomes (and effectiveness) in our sector within reach.
Unfortunately, owing to unavailability of funding to enable us to continue to manage and develop this site, as at 30 June 2011 the site has closed.Please Contact Us if you have any queries or need information about any e-newsletters, private workspaces etc. that previously existed on CommunityCentral.