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NZCOSS Conference
NZCOSS Conference
Raraka Korero: Weaving Our Stories
17-19 October, 2006
Kia ora tatou
Welcome to the home page for NZCOSS Conference 2006, Raraka Korero: Weaving Our Stories.
This year�s conference, held in the mid-Canterbury town of Ashburton, focused on how we gather, shape and communicate information and knowledge in the community sector. The conference attracted over 170 people over the three days.
Over the coming weeks the text of many of the presentations will be uploaded to this website. Those available now are listed below. For more information or to be added to the e-alert list for conference proceedings, please contact the Conference organisers at projects@nzcoss.org.nz
In addition you can view the abstracts for the various presentations that were made:
> Download the Conference abstracts booklet
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Community Outcomes: Spinning a Yarn or Weaving a Tapestry?
Karen Johnston, Consultant, Strategic and Project Planning, Christchurch, and Sharon Torstonson, NZCOSS. The Local Government Act 2002 introduced a requirement for local authorities to conduct a Community Outcomes Process and to adopt a Long Term Council Community Plan. This planning process provides an important opportunity for NZCOSS to facilitate closer relationships between local COSS and local government. | Format:
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Community Outcomes: Spinning a Yarn... powerpoint presentation
Karen Johnston, Consultant, Strategic and Project Planning, Christchurch, and Sharon Torstonson, NZCOSS. | Format:
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Community Sector Taskforce
Community Sector Taskforce: A New Way of Working.
Presented by Iris Pahau, Taskforce National Development Manager, and Sharon Torstonson, Taskforce Member. The Community Sector Taskforce is an independent body of community representatives, established in 2003 to develop the relationship between Government and the community and voluntary sector. Iris & Rees, the National Development Managers, will present the history and role of the Taskforce, its aims and objectives and its work programme over the next 18 months. They will also present ‘A New Way of Working’ - a concept that recognises cultural uniqueness and culture diversity. | Format:
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Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue: powerpoint presentation
David Robinson, Director, & Pat Hanley, Chair, Social and Civic Policy Institute. The Social and Civic Policy Institute supports community groups engaged in dialogue on a wide range of issues including the participation of Pacific people in economic development, mental health consumers’ involvement in service planning and youth issues. We are working with migrant and refugee groups in Auckland and Wellington to identify issues and develop a series of community dialogues with members of the host communities in the localities where they live. Our community discussions have revealed growing interest in moving to a process that enables communities to engage in ongoing, in-depth discussion. This requires dialogue rather than debate, a willingness to listen to other views and commitment to ongoing discussion. | Format:
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Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue: word version
David Robinson, Director, & Pat Hanley, Chair, Social and Civic Policy Institute | Format:
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He Oranga Pounamu
Gilbert Taurua, Business Development Manager, He Oranga Pounamu. He Oranga Pounamu was established in 2000, under mandate from Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu to facilitate health and social service development and integration in the Ngai Tahu rohe. He Oranga Pounamu has been working towards ensuring that the health and social service needs for all Maori living in the tribal area are responded to in an appropriate way. | Format:
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Honouring the Experts – Participatory Data Gathering
Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy, Institute for Public Policy Research, AUT.The last 40 years of social science research on the front line - in feminist work, disability activism, issues for minority indigenous peoples, refugee and migrant groups - and many others, has demonstrated that most communities have a better analysis of why things are as they are, and can suggest better strategies for change, than all the degree laden clinical office bound experts. But it takes so long for this message to reach the powerful strategy teams in central and local government, who still want telephone surveys to be the objective fodder on which they base their priorities and future plans. How do we begin to bridge the gap between those who know how to do rigorous community research, and those who have never known, but make all the rules and draw up the budgets? | Format:
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Living Economies Issue 7
Living Economies Issue 7 | Format:
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More than the warp and the weft
More than the warp and the weft – growing the strength of the whole cloth. Margy-Jean Malcolm, Director, Unitec NZ Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management. This presentation builds on the conference theme of how we gather, shape and communicate information and knowledge, to consider how we might best learn from and grow wisdom in our sector. It explores the concept of capacity building and encourage debate about what capacity building is about; what roles can usefully be played by organisations like COSS, funders, trainers, mentors, consultants and others; and encourages us to build our own wisdom about effective actions to support strong capacity. | Format:
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Pokienomics: The Ethical Debate on Pokie Funds
Sue Russell, Executive Officer, Dunedin Council of Social Services; Thomas Moore, Problem Gambling Foundation, Dunedin. The debate about whether we, as community and social service organisations, should accept funds from Pokie Trusts has been a strong ethical one ever since Pokie Machines appeared in our communities. This workshop explored pokie economics and gambling statistics and discussed ways in which community organisations might act as social change agents by challenging pokie trusts' current business practices. | Format:
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Principles and practices of collaboration
Sue Driver, Project Manager, Family and Community Services, and Tina Reid, Executive Director, NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations. It is increasingly recognised that collaboration is an important tool in the community and voluntary sector – that by sharing information and resources, we have a wider reach and can together achieve a lot more than we can individually. There are an increasing number of opportunities for collaboration – both across voluntary organisations and between our sector and others (such as government and business). | Format:
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Social Finance
Lindsay Jeffs, Lecturer, Unitec, Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management, Auckland; Manager, Christchurch Small Business Enterprise Centre, Christchurch. This workshop examined the role of social finance, social investment and social capital raising in New Zealand. Comparisons were made between the New Zealand situation and the many new developments that are occurring in the area of not-for-profit sector financing in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the USA. The perspective of both funding agencies and recipients was considered. | Format:
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Sustaining Our Communities Aug 05
Katherine Peet, Network Waitangi Otautahi.. New Zealanders spend more time on unpaid work than on paid work. This is a finding from the most recent Time Use Survey by Statistics New Zealand and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (published in 2001). This data shows that 3.5 billion hours are spent on paid work annually, equating to 1.7 million full-time jobs based on 40 hour working week. The information gathered to date clearly demonstrates the economic significance of this large investment of time in unpaid work. | Format:
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Sustaining Our Communities Jun06
Katherine Peet, Network Waitangi Otautahi. "Seeing" the unseen activities which contribute to sustaining our communities is vital to determining how to live more sustainably. Network Waitangi Otautahi (NWO), has been working with Statistics NZ to clarify some key definitional issues. This initiative has had the support of Te Runaka ki Otautahi o Kai Tahu, Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch and a number of other agencies in Christchurch. | Format:
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Wadcoss: Strengthening the Links
Louise Dunn, Projects, and Tony Mayow, Chair, WADCOSS. The WADCOSS journey towards becoming a Community Development organisation started in 2004 with the writing of a five year strategic plan by the then Executive Committee and the three staff members, at that time. In 2005 WADCOSS received a grant from the Department of Internal Affairs, under the Sustainable Cities fund, to continue developing the Strategic Plan and assist the organisation on its journey to becoming THE Community Development organisation in Waitakere City. | Format:
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