Centre for Social Impact

08/04/2026

Are you ready to become a restorative systems change leader?

Introducing the Leadership through Restoration and Healing programme – a new programme for leaders interested in bringing restoration into the work of systems change, and finding new ways for people to work, relate, design and learn together.

The programme, which draws on the Haumanu framework for restorative systems change combines in-person wānanga and online hui to provide leaders with a process method and practices to address collective trauma and to redesign systems from a place of mauri ora; wellness and wholeness.

Applications close 15 May 2026.

Want to learn more? Come along to an online information session with the facilitators from 5pm – 6pm on Thursday 16 April.

Click the link below to learn more
https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/news/article/a-new-development-programme-for-leaders

04/03/2026

Today at , across “Funders’ commitment on climate action” and “Climate & environment: engaging community and growing shared knowledge for impact”, we heard practical approaches that help funders move from aspiration to sustained impact.

Esther Whitehead and Arohanui West - Climate Action Aotearoa, Dennis Turton - Climate Action Aotearoa and Trust Waikato, and climate advocate Kaeden Watts

Facilitator: Karinia Lee - Centre for Social Impact

What tools or practices have helped your organisation turn commitments into durable change?

Looking for tools and resources? - visit Te Pūaha o Te Ako by clicking the link below

https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/knowledge-base

04/03/2026

CSI associates in action at today — sharing practical approaches to elevate community impact and build high‑trust, mana‑enhancing partnerships. Ngā mihi to the facilitators and speakers for the generosity of your insights.

Left to right: Roschelle Marshall (Foundation North), Chloe Harwood and Rachael Trotman (CSI associates) and Donna Provoost (Tūhono Impact)

Click the link below to read more about these topics on Te Pūaha o Te Ako (the Knowledge Hub)
https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/knowledge-base

09/02/2026

‘Ngahuru, kura kai, kura tangata – Autumn, wealth of food, wealth of people’

There is still time to register for the final Hauora by the Season webinar: Raumati to Ngahuru – summer to autumn coming up on Thursday 19 Feb from 10am – 11.30am

What have you learnt about nurturing your hauora over the past year? What do you want to take into the year ahead?

This is a time to refresh our wellbeing practices, to give ourselves the gift of starting the year grounded, connected, and energised. Drawing on mātauranga Māori to acknowledge the changing seasons and how each season brings new opportunities to nurture our wellbeing, there will be time included in the workshop for reflection and learning from shared hauora experiences.

Register now by clicking the link in our bio.

22/12/2025

Meri Kirihimete ki a koutou and warm holiday wishes from the CSI team!

The Centre for Social Impact will be closed on Wednesday 24 December for the end-of-year period and will reopen on Monday 12 January 2026.

A message from our Head of Centre, Karinia Lee: ‘On behalf of the CSI team, I want to mihi to everyone we have had the privilege of engaging with this year. From the community members who have attended our Te Pūaha Talks, to the various organisations and kaupapa from across the motu that we’ve worked with, this year has been full of amazing moments, insightful korero, deep learning, and always, immense growth.’

Ngā mihi.

26/11/2025

What is the gift you are going to give yourself in the season of Raumati?

Step into Raumati (summer) with intention, gratitude, and connection with Tuihana Ohia’s latest wellbeing webinar, Hauora by the seasons: Kōanga to Raumati - spring to summer, available now in Te Pūaha o te Ako (the Knowledge Hub).

Stay grounded and balanced through the changing seasons, click the link below and watch the recording now.

This programme of quarterly wellbeing webinars has been created by Tuihana Ohia to support community hauora. Each workshop draws on mātauranga Māori to acknowledge the changing seasons and how each season brings new opportunities to nurture our wellbeing. Time is included in the workshops for refl...

20/11/2025

Have you re-registered your incorporated society yet?!

A friendly reminder to all incorporated societies in Aotearoa to re-register under the new Incorporated Societies Act 2022 by 5 April 2026 – or you could risk losing your organisation!

To re-register under the new act, you will need to:

- Prepare a constitution and review its operational processes (this may take some time).
- Hold a general meeting to approve the decision to reregister and the new constitution.
- Apply to reregister online

For more information, and to re-register, click the link below

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17/11/2025

Time is running out to register for this Inspiring Communities webinar on AI coming up tomorrow!

Secure your spot now by clicking the link below.

This session will provide a fast, fun overview of AI for the community sector.

16/11/2025

Poipoia te kākano kia puāwai ai - Nurture the seed and it will bloom 🌱

This is your invitation to take a 2-minute pause to ground, reset, nurture your hauora, and simply breathe with our Pūmanawa Hā Moment over on Spotify

Step into an intentional moment with our bite-sized guided wellbeing practices created by Tuihana Ohia to help you bring small moments of joy into your day…

“Our hauora, our wellbeing begins with us, ko au. During the noise of life, we forget or misplace the awesomeness of us, sometimes feeling disconnected with ourselves. Through a reflective internal practice, we take a pause to remember, consider, acknowledge and celebrate our pūmanawa, our breath. By doing so, we begin or reignite the nurturing of our hauora.”

Click the link below to listen now

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cPlMAKYOHg6ZujiFAtIZZ

20/10/2025

06/10/2025

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! With the 2025 theme ‘Top Up Together’ encouraging us to connect with others over daily wellness practices, why not try taking a ‘Hā moment’?!

Part of our Ngahere wellbeing resources designed to encourage you as an individual to take six one-minute pauses, or Hā moments, throughout each day to ground yourself, each Hā moment exercise has three elements to guide and ground you;

- Whakataukī: a significant saying, an inspirational statement, quote, or proverb
- Pūmanawa: a way to think about our superpowers, the tūpuna ancestor-given gifts which each of us have
- Rongoā: a remedy, a treatment, a guidance for your Hā moment.

Give yourself the gift of an intentional pause this week, listen to a guided Hā moment now by clicking the link below
https://www.centreforsocialimpact.org.nz/knowledge-base/te-puaha-talks-ngahere-nurturing-our-connec…