NZFVWO - Our Projects

CommunityCentral

CommunityCentral helps us work together. It's an online space for people in tangata whenua, community and voluntary, public health and other organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand. It's designed by the sector, for the sector. On CommunityCentral you can:

Browse to find out what is happening in the community sector.
Join to receive a range of e-newsletters, and participate in workspaces and discussion networks -
- Use Private Workspaces to run a project, stay in touch and work together online within an organisation, project team or committee.
- Use Discussion Networks as a virtual roundtable for learning and connecting. Discuss common interests issues with other members online.
Distribute your own newsletters and establish a space for your Collaborative Projects.

TechSoup New Zealand

TechSoup New Zealand provides donated software from companies such as Microsoft. Via this programme you can get all the latest Microsoft products. More donors will be coming soon. 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 organisatsions world-wide to make huge savings in their operations.

The TechSoup New Zealand Programme is provided by Connecting Up Australia (via their DonorTec programme) in partnership with TechSoup and NZFVWO.

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Mana Mahi

The Workplace Wellbeing project is a collaboration between the NZ Council of Social Services, the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations, Community Waikato and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota. We have come together to explore ways in which our four organisations can support the development and maintenance of good employment practice and relationships in our sector. This project has been around in some form for almost five years now. During this time we have run a series of successful workshops for community sector employers on Effective Employment Relationships.

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.

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ComVoices

ComVoices is an independent network of tangata whenua and 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.

Our 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.

Our 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.

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Collaborative Voices

The Collaborative Voices radio programme is an initiative of the New Zealand Council of Social Services (NZCOSS) and New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations (NZFVWO), as a way of informing the sector about topical issues.

The principle behind Collaborative Voices is to profile the sector in a way that actively demonstrates how organisations are working together collaboratively. The programme is presented by Ros Rice, NZCOSS, and Michael Woodcock, NZFVWO. Ros and Michael both have experience in community radio broadcasting and are based in Wellington. They interview people either connected to or involved with the social services and community sector.

As well as interviews the programme will feature news about developments in the sector, notices about relevant events and informative segments about a wide range of organisations active in the sector. Collaborative Voices will be replayed on by all eleven Access stations throughout the country.

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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.

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