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Chief Executive Officer

July 4th, 2009

Organisation Halberg Trust

Town Auckland

Closing date 20 July 2009

The Halberg Trust was founded by Sir Murray Halberg over 40 years ago with the twin objectives of honouring New Zealand sporting excellence and encouraging people with a disability into sport and active leisure. The Halberg Trust showpiece, the annual Westpac Halberg Awards, is the pre-eminent sporting awards in NZ. The Trust encourages and supports people with disabilities through its Sport Opportunity programmes run in partnership with the 17 Regional Sports Trusts in New Zealand.

Based at the Trust Offices in Auckland and reporting to the Halberg Trust’s Executive Board, the Chief Executive has national and regional responsibilities ensuring the Trust’s vision is implemented via sound strategic planning and management of a core team of committed individuals. The Trust is also taking an increasing leadership role within the sector.

The successful candidate must display excellence in the following areas: Internal and external relationship management, leadership within their chosen field, financial management, PR/marketing, sponsorship and event management. As the “face” of the Trust a proven track record of integrity, inclusion and determination are required as well as an ability to be ‘hands on’. Due to the importance of sponsors, a commitment to partnering with external parties, along with intellectual rigour and a personal commitment to the goals of the trust are essential. Experience in the NZ Sporting/charity sector and/or work with those with disabilities would be an advantage.

For more information visit: www.farrowjamieson.com/Job-7677.html?loc=Auckland&occ=All%20Occupations&ind=All%20Industries&key=

Or contact Iain MacGibbon @ Farrow Jamieson
Phone (09) 915 9144

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Mental Health & Intellectual Disability workshop

July 4th, 2009

Organisation Mental Health Education and Resource Centre

Town Christchurch

Date 28 July 2009

This session is for people who work in services for older people or who want to update their personal knowledge about mental health issues faced by older people.

Carers and family members will find the session very interesting, as will older people supporting friends and partners.

The experience of getting older can be viewed very positively and mental health challenges can be met with optimism not despair. Good treatments with successful outcomes are possible for anyone of any age.

Workshop by Caroline Mohr

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm.

Venue: Mental Health Education and Resource Centre, 2nd Floor, Securities House, 221 Gloucester Street, Christchurch

Cost: Subsidised - $30.00 (incl. GST) for employees of organisations with a CDHB Mental Health Contract. * Priority places will be given to these employees.
No subsidy - $55.00 (incl. GST).

A completed registration form accompanying payment is required to confirm places.

Places are limited so your early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment.

For more information, please visit http://www.mherc.org.nz/education.htm#reflective

Or contact Pip Stewart
Phone (03) 365 9582
Email pip@mherc.org.nz

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For Arts Sake - Hawkes Bay

July 4th, 2009

Organisation Exult Ltd

Town Hawke’s Bay (venue to be confirmed)

Date 23 July 2009

A ‘hands on’ workshop which explores new and exciting craft projects, which can be easily adapted to suit people of all ages and abilities.

If you use arts and crafts in your organisation, then you should definitely come along.

Discover:

  • A great range of quick crafts that can be completed in half an hour or less
  • New ideas for using the everyday craft materials you already have on hand
  • Easy craft projects using free (or nearly free!) materials

Roll up your sleeves and have-a-go.

Facilitated by Kerri Tilby. Kerri has a background in early childhood education, and spent many years running a community arts centre in Tauranga.

She has created art based programmes for organisations working with youth at risk, children with special needs, and adults recovering from illness. Kerri’s work on Creativity has been published in many magazines including Little Treasures, Lifestyle and Healthy Options.

Time: 9.30am - 2.00pm

Cost: $80 for Exult Network members /$90 for non-members - includes materials.

Registrations are essential as this workshop is limited to 20.

For more information contact Tracy Stockman
Phone (07) 571 8819
Email workshops@exult.co.nz

http://www.exult.co.nz

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Sustainable Funding - Hawkes Bay

July 4th, 2009

Organisation Exult Ltd

Town Napier

Date 22 July 2009

Does your organisation live hand to mouth?

Are you constantly scrambling to find money for everyday operations?

Would you like your organisation to have a reliable income, but are not sure where to start?

In this workshop you will discover:

  • The 7 key income streams available to community organisations.
  • How to be successful with securing sponsorship and community funding. What are they really looking for?
  • How your organisation can increase its income, doing what you already do.
  • How to use your existing resources to generate new funds.
  • How to develop a sustainable funding plan so you’re not always scrambling for cash.

Facilitated by Kerri Tilby. Kerri has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for 15 years, and has spent much of that time in the area of sponsorship, marketing, and event management.

Venue: Riding for the Disabled, 61 Sandy Road, Meeanee, Napier.

Time: 9.30am - 4pm

Cost: $80 for Exult Network Members / $90 for non-members (10% discount for 3 or more from same group).

Registrations are essential as spaces are limited.

For more information contact Tracy Stockman
Phone (07) 571 8819
Email workshops@exult.co.nz

http://www.exult.co.nz

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Climate change target public consultation meetings

July 4th, 2009

Organisation Sign On

Town National centres

Date 6 - 17 July 2009

The Government has announced a round of public consultations starting next week, on what NZ’s 2020 emissions reductions target should be. We need you to be there.

In December, governments will converge at Copenhagen aiming to reach a new climate agreement and urgent and ambitious reductions are being encouraged by climate scientists.

The Government hasn’t given the NZ people much time to have their say on this crucial issue. But we still see it as a good opportunity for all the thousands of people that have Signed On (almost 60,000 now!) to get vocal about the target that New Zealand needs to set: 40 per cent by 2020. Government Ministers will take just two weeks to visit only nine centres in New Zealand to hear what the public think, starting Monday!

We need to mobilise as many people as possible to attend the meetings and show their support for 40 by 2020 targets.

Sign On supporters will be out front of the meetings beforehand each night signing people on and also distributing stickers that people can wear into the meeting showing their support for the needed 40 percent by 2020 target.

Times and venues:

  • 6 July – Wellington – 7.30pm – 9pm, Oceania Room, Te Papa, Wellington
  • 7 July – Auckland – 7.30pm – 9pm, Princes Ballroom B and C. Hotel Hyatt Regency, Corner of Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland Central.
  • 8 July – Christchurch – 7.30pm – 9pm, Hall C, Convention Centre, Kilmore Street, Christchurch
  • 9 July – Dunedin – 7.30pm – 9pm, Clifford Skeggs Gallery, Dunedin Centre, 1 Harrop Street, Dunedin
  • 10 July - Queenstown – 7.30pm – 9pm, Icon Room, Heritage Hotel, 91 Fernhill Drive, Queenstown
  • 13 July – Hamilton – 7.30pm – 9pm, Waikato Room, Sky City Hamilton, 346 Victoria Street, Hamilton
  • 14 Tuesday – New Plymouth – 7.30pm – 9pm, Conference Room Plymouth International, Corner Courtenay and Leach Streets, New Plymouth
  • 15 July – Napier - 7.30pm – 9pm, Ocean Suite East Pier, Hardinge Road Ahuriri, Napier
  • 17 July – Nelson – 7.30pm – 9pm, Waimea Room Rutherford Hotel, Trafalgar Square, Nelson.
Can’t make it to a meeting?

We have a solution! Create a short message and we’ll project it on to a wall outside the consultation meeting where it will be very hard to miss.

Post ideas and read more on the forum

You can be creative in the way you express your questions, to get ideas and to post your own, go to the Sign On forum: www.signon.org.nz/forum/forums/general. The forum is the place to discuss ideas, tactics, and opinions. We need people to engage to build a critical mass. Please get on and contribute your ideas.

Internet based consultation for those who can’t attend

You can submit questions for the Minister for Climate Change Issues’ online video conference to be held from 7.30pm on Monday 20 July at http://www.r2.co.nz/20090720. Questions can be submitted in advance at 2020target@mfe.govt.nz

You can also email the Minister with your views to nick.smith@ministers.govt.nz or by post to:

Hon Dr Nick Smith,
Minister for Climate Change Issues,
PO Box 10362,
Wellington 6143.

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Governance in NFP Organisations Workshop

July 2nd, 2009

Organisation North Shore Community and Social Services (NSCSS)

Town Takapuna, Auckland

Date 12 August 2009

Increase your understanding of ‘good governance’ for not-for-profit organisations and evaluate the effectiveness of your Board.

Topics include:

  • Governance and management defined
  • How Boards can add value
  • How to avoid the common pitfalls
  • Key functions and inherent dilemmas of the Board
  • Roles, rights and responsibilities of board members
  • Board – staff relations and effective meetings

Venue: Taitamariki Hall (Girl Guides) Auburn Reserve, Auburn Street, Takapuna (directly opposite Como Street).

Time: 9:00 - 4pm. Morning Tea and light lunch provided.

Cost: $30.00 (normally $75)

Presenter: Carol Scholes - Tutor at Unitec.

For all enquiries and registration, contact North Shore Community and Social Services
Phone (09) 486 4820
Email enas@nscss.org.nz

http://www.nscss.org.nz

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New Zealand Diversity Forum 2009

July 2nd, 2009

Organisation Human Rights Commission

Town Wellington

Date 22 - 24 August 2009

The New Zealand Diversity Forum brings together a wide range of organisations that all hold their own forums and attract their own audiences under a single umbrella – and these audiences then mix and mingle in other forum events.

The focus is on practical outcomes, networking and sharing good practice. A national youth forum brings together youth participants from throughout New Zealand to provide a strong youth perspective to the proceedings.

For more details on the forum visit the Diversity Forum web page.

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Youth Mentoring Network Conference

July 2nd, 2009

Organisation Youth Mentoring Network

Town Auckland

Date 12 - 13 August 2009

The Youth Mentoring Network is a charitable trust established to promote effective youth mentoring opportunities for young New Zealanders and to provide professional development initiatives for individuals and organisations working in youth mentoring.

Join them at the conference in August to hear:

  • The Government’s vision for young people in New Zealand.
  • How to access practical tools and resources to assist managing volunteer mentors.
  • About the importance of ‘positive’ role models in a young person’s life.
  • What guidance New Zealanders might get from kaupapa Maori, when dealing with young people.
  • New research in the important fields of Adventure Therapy, the roles of non-parental adults and positive youth development.
  • From experienced Youth Mentoring Programme Providers, currently working with young people and their families in New Zealand.

Speakers will include:

  • Hon Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development and Employment and Minister of Youth Affairs
  • Ann Dunphy, Chair, the Youth Mentoring Network - New Zealand
  • Stephen Bell, CEO, Youthline
  • Dr. Sue Farruggia, Researcher, University of Auckland
  • Hon Dr Pita Sharples, Minister of Maori Affairs
  • Judge Andrew Becroft, Principal Youth Court Judge of New Zealand
  • Superintendent Bill Harrison, National Manager, Youth Services, NZ Police
  • Kathleen Vella, Executive Director, Youth Mentoring Network, Australia
  • Ian Williams, Centre of Adolescent Health, Melbourne University

For more information visit: http://www.youthmentoring.org.nz/conference09/index.cfm

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Have your say at TalkLaw!

July 2nd, 2009

Are you concerned about the spread of private information being publicly available on the internet?

Are there any invasions of privacy that you think should be criminal offences?

The Law Commission has created an online consultation site to encourage feedback about its current law reform projects. TalkLaw gives you the opportunity to have your say on law reform projects we are working on. Your input is important and will influence our recommendations for changes to the law.

The review of privacy law is the first forum topic open for discussion. The Commission wants to hear your views.

Login and ‘TalkPrivacy’!

To participate in the discussion forums, go to http://www.talklaw.co.nz

Sign-up is quick, easy and anonymous.

TalkLiquor coming soon! Watch out for this forum opening in August. (TalkLiquor relates to the Law Commission’s review of the regulatory framework for the Sale and Supply of Liquor)

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Simple Evaluation Planning for non-Evaluators (Wellington)

July 1st, 2009

Organisation Parker Duignan Ltd.

Town Wellington

Date 18 August 2009

Do you need to plan an evaluation? This is a good place to start…

Many people in many roles these days have to develop evaluation plans. This trend is going to accelerate as the pressure comes on to prove results in a time of constrained spending.

This workshop will equip you with a framework for developing an evaluation plan. Once you have learnt this method, you can use it to develop a plan for evaluating any type of project.

The process lets you develop an evaluation based around a visual results model (also called an intervention logic or outcomes model). Such plans can be developed in less than half the time it takes to develop text-based evaluation plans.

A structured template approach identifies exactly what you need to do at each stage in developing your evaluation plan. Areas where you may need to pull in specialist expertise are identified within the process.

Join Dr Paul Duignan for this highly focused workshop that will give you all you need to begin successfully planning and managing evaluations.

This workshop is aimed at those who need or want to do evaluation, but have had little or no evaluation training. For example, participants might be currently working as:

  • Researchers
  • Policy analysts
  • Project managers
  • Programme managers
  • Planners.

Workshop Details:

Time: 9am - 12.30pm.

Venue: Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street (opposite the Beehive), Wellington.

Cost: Cost: $350+GST (Early-bird saver $250+GST - when you register 8 August).

Dr Paul Duignan is a New Zealand-based evaluation expert who consults nationally and internationally. He is an enormously experienced evaluator who has lectured, trained and taught evaluation at all levels from absolute beginners to highly skilled evaluators, and in wide range of settings spanning government, health, community and other sectors. More information about Paul and his highly effective approach to evaluation and managing outcomes is available from: www.easyoutcomes.org and www.outcomesblog.org

Email us now to register: info@parkerduignan.com

www.parkerduignan.com/pd/pd_presentations.html#Simple_Evaluation_planning_for

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