The failure rate at 41% to meet the new reporting requirements demanded of charities serves as a wake-up call to all non-profit entities. It is indicative of a deficiency in the most important and critical performance area. Treasury and accounting […]
Managing my health and safety systems – a few ideas
by Jeremy Tunks, NZARC Trustee and General Manager Training and Safety InZone Industries Ltd. HOW DO YOUR HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LOOK UNDER THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT 2015? Now that we have had almost a year under […]
Protect your organisation in the Wild West that is social media
With more and more NFPs turning to social media the inclusion of a Social Media Policy in an organisation’s arsenal of governance documents is becoming essential. It is near impossible to prepare and protect your organisation against all possibilities but by […]
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey’s timeless classic text has still a place and deserves our attention in spite of its age, particularly where the human resource in the voluntary non-profit industry is concerned. It cannot be denied that there is evidence of discrimination […]
Importance of Outcomes For Not-For-Profit Organisations
Reporting on outcomes is becoming more and more important for Not-for-profit Organisations (NPO), however many organisations are yet to get their heads around or have a clear understanding of what their outcomes actually are. In a recent Auckland North Community […]
How business-like should a non-profit really be?
There is a reason a charity or association has been set up in the first place – usually to deliver upon a particular purpose because there is a need not being met within the community or industry. And, there are […]
Challenging the Status Quo
What defines a ‘leader’? Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Team Member and author of best-selling business titles: “You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo”. These are […]
Building capability in non-profits
What challenges are facing many NFPs at the moment? This very question was tackled at a recent ISO capability mentors network meeting that one of the NZARCT Trustees attended. One challenge observed was that ‘many NFPs lack the capacity/time to […]