Discussion Starters

Do NGOs make a difference? How do we know?

What are the indicators of success for community organisations?

Consumer satisfaction?
Compliance with audits?
Breaking even?
Community involvement?
Consumers getting a house and a job?

Most services want to know that the work they are doing is making a difference.

NGOs and Research

Does the NGO sector benefit from the national research agenda?...more

NGOs and the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act

Developing our own NGO capacity

In what seems to be an attempt to understand the nature ,culture, attributes and dynamics of the NGO sector there appears to be an increasing trend for Government departments and agencies to create more jobs called liaison, relationship manger, partnership facilitator. Our suggestions to the Government funders of community organisations include investing in the sectors capacity to describe, research and provide information about itself more....

Mental Health in Prisons

Are prisons the mental health institutions of the 21st century? A recent article from Australia discusses this.

Whangarei Hearing Association Hijack

A scary story for any community organisation - listen to a Radio New Zealand Insight programme about how the Whangarei Hearing Association was taken over and stripped of its all assets with little legal redress.