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The Department of Internal Affairs provides advice to the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and to government on:
- key strategic policy issues facing the Community and Voluntary sector
- community development and community resourcing issues
- the community perspective on key inter-agency projects.
Community, Voluntary and Sector Policy
The Community, Voluntary and Sector Policy team (formerly known as the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector) provides cross-sector policy development and advice to the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and to government on the community and voluntary sector at the national policy level.Areas that the team work on include:
- implementation of Kia Tūtahi, the Relationship Accord between the Communities of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Government;
- policy input to cross-government initiatives impacting on community organisations, social enterprises, and volunteers;
- policy advice related to the Charities Act 2005.
General information
- Defining the community and voluntary sector (.pdf) 184*
- Defining volunteering (.pdf) 166k*
- Briefing for the Incoming Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector (See Briefings for Incoming Ministers)
- Community-led development
- Community development research reports
- Other community development information
Guidance on engaging with community organisations
- Ready Reference Engagement Guide (.pdf) 2.59M*
- Code of Funding Practice (.pdf) 272k*
- Seminar on Collaborative Governance
- Diana Suggate: Welcome and speaker introductions
- Glen Lauder: Collaborative Governance
- Alastair Bisley: Land and Water Collaboration
- Guy Salmon: Collaborative Governance
- Seminar introducing the Code of Funding Practice, December 2010
- Hugh Lawrence introduces the seminar
- Peter Waru and Enid Ratahi-Pryor - Code of Funding Practice seminar
- Trafford Wilson - Code of Funding Practice seminar
- Alan White, Department of Conservation, and Sue Murray, Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust, discuss transparency
- Lyall Wilson, Ministry of Social Development, and Lynda Millington, Interactionz, discuss open communication, transparency and respect
- Elena Wrelton, Ministry for the Environment, discusses integrity, accountability, flexibility and innovation
- Lucy Chamberlain, Department of Internal Affairs, and Maria Burgess, Porirua Living without Violence, discuss integrity, accountability and flexibility
Social enterprise
- Mapping social enterprises in New Zealand - Results of a 2012 survey (.pdf) 539k* Results of a 2012 survey in Microsoft Word (.doc) 1.5M
- The Potential for Social Impact Bonds in New Zealand - (PDF, 671K) | (Word, 135K), A report prepared by Ross Philipson Consulting Ltd for the Department of Internal Affairs - September 2011
- Social Lending: A Tool for Grantmakers, an Opportunity for Communities (August 2010) – prepared by Ian Axford fellow Laura Benedict, based in the OCVS during 2010
Volunteering and giving
- NEW! Quarterly Volunteering and Donating Indicators - Update: March quarter 2010 to December quarter 2012 (.pdf) 337k*
- NEW! Quarterly Volunteering and Donating Indicators - Update: March quarter 2010 to December quarter 2012 (.doc) 1MB
- Quarterly Volunteering and Donating Indicators - Update: December quarter 2009 to September quarter 2012 (.doc) 414k
- Quarterly 'Generosity' Indicators - Update: December quarter 2009 to March quarter 2012 (.pdf ) 45.5k*
- Payroll giving – a voluntary scheme to support employees to give direct from their pay to good causes
- Student Volunteer Army founder, Sam Johnson explains how social media was used to mobilise young people to help after the Canterbury earthquakes [www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncI849-a9n4&feature=player_embedded ]
- Mahi Aroha: Maori Perspectives on Giving and Volunteering (.pdf) 914k*
- Government Policy on Volunteering (PDF, 83KB) - December 2002 Government Policy on Volunteering (Word, 23.5KB) - December 2002
Non-profit sector research
The Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector 2004-2008. This project measured and described the role that non-profit organisations play in society and the economy- The New Zealand Non-profit Sector in Comparative Perspective (.pdf) 437k*
- Defining the Nonprofit Sector: New Zealand (.pdf) 526k*
- History of the Non-profit Sector in New Zealand (.pdf) 312k*
- The NZ Non-Profit Sector and Government Policy (.pdf) 338k*
- Non-Profit Institutions Satellite Account: 2004
Charities Act 2005
In 2010 the Department of Internal Affairs reviewed the Charities Act 2005 (the Act) and the Charities (Fees, Forms, and Other Matters) Regulations 2006. Some technical amendments were progressed through the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2), with those amendments to the Charities Act taking effect in February 2012. Cabinet also agreed in 2010 that a first principles review of the Charities Act would be undertaken and completed by 2015. The review was to assess both the effectiveness of the (then) Charities Commission since its inception in 2005 and the “charitable purpose” definition.In November 2012, Cabinet decided not to continue with a review of the Charities Act 2005. The following Cabinet papers and minutes related to that decision have been proactively released by the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
- Future of the Charities Act Review (Cabinet paper) Signed PDF version (.pdf) 670k*
- Future of the Charities Act Review (Cabinet paper) Word document version (.doc) 71.5k*
- See: Minister's news release (Beehive website) 16 November 2012
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