President’s Message

Kia ora koutou,

Greetings from sunny Canterbury where the blossoms are out.

We hope our Educate Plus members in Auckland are doing well despite the recent lockdown and COVID restrictions they have experienced and that those of you in the school sector are enjoying a well-deserved holiday break. 2020 has certainly been a strange one where everything has happened slowly and at high speed simultaneously!

We hope you have been able to access the Educate Plus webinars and online workshops over the last few months and that these professional development opportunities would add values to your line of work. Our special thanks to all the presenters for their time in sharing with us their knowledge and experiences.

If you have missed the webinars, session recordings are available on the Educate Plus website in the ‘Resource’ section. You can also listen to these sessions at your own leisure on your favourite podcast channel. Here are some highly recommended sessions for you to revisit:

Donor & Prospect Research in New Zealand (by Nicki Sayers)

Bequest Programmes Workshop (by Dr Alan Watkinson)

Managing Your Small Advancement Office (by Ann Badger & Dr Alan Watkinson)

Dr Alan Watkinson and Ann Badger delivered a great online workshop on managing a Small Advancement Office for our NZ members.

Key take away points that we noted were:

• Know your place in the organisation
• Have a plan
• Focus on the real impact
• Evaluate what can / can’t be done
• Avoid micro management
• Keep meetings timely and purposeful
• Schedule emails
• Tasks – keep moving forwards
• Commit, go for it!
• Reflect regularly on what you’ve achieved
• Aim for effectiveness not efficiency

More webinars and networking opportunities are available to our New Zealand Chapter Members over the coming months. For more information about what’s coming up, please see the ‘Networking & PD Opportunities’ section of this e-Newsletter.

We look forward to more face to face networking as the weather warms up.

In the meantime, stay well and stay safe.

Ngā mihi,

Naomi Wilde

President, New Zealand Chapter

New Zealand Chapter News

We will hold our next committee meeting face to face at Arts City Location (Old Chemistry). Following that we invite all our members in the Canterbury region to please join us for a networking event and AGM from 4:30pm onwards.

Chapter Committee Nomination process and timeline will be sent out to all members in due course and registrations will open at that time.

The New Zealand Chapter Manager position recently advertised has attracted some strong interests from very experienced candidates. We aim to make the appointment sometime in October and will share it with our members once decision has been finalised.

Find out more

Giving Architects

Giving Architects are a New Zealand Chapter partner and we are grateful for their continuing support. Giving Architects design and deliver sound giving solutions based on international best practice, awareness of local opportunities and proactive responses to a challenging fundraising environment. 

They develop innovative pathways that enable organisations to meet the needs that drive positive change for people and the planet. Giving Architects understands the needs, nuances, unique characteristics and cultural aspects of philanthropy and impact investment in New Zealand and Australia. 

They have an experienced team based across New Zealand and Australia and are committed to working to build a sustainable fundraising programme, to raise significant funds for a breakthrough project, or to design and deliver an impact investment.  

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International Students

The current global pandemic of Covid-19 has certainly created unprecedented challenges and uncertainties among all the schools and universities due to the financial downturn in New Zealand’s export education sector, however, it is particularly important at times like this that we take extra care of those international students who have decided to remain onshore. Especially in the upcoming Christmas holidays, our duty of care as education providers will be ensure that our students are well looked after and that students’ health and wellbeing are at the forefront of all our decision makings as this is a particularly difficult time for these students who aren’t able to travel home and reunite with their families during the festive season.

To see St Peter’s College, Cambridge’s International Department story, click to read below:

Read More Here

Networking & PD Opportunities

Auckland Networking Breakfast

Date: Thursday 8 October (second week of term break)
Time: 8:00am – 10:00am
Venue:  Auckland Diocesan School for Girls, Clyde St, Epsom
Cost:  FREE for members, $15 per person for non-members
Finger food breakfast, tea, coffee and plenty of parking will be available

Angela Coe and the team at Dio will provide some short, sweet and valuable insights into how they have applied their learnings from recent Educate Plus PD sessions to respond to the impacts of COVID in their community and office operations. We’re really looking forward to hearing more about the success of their recently launched LinkedIn group; their Charidy-driven annual appeal for a Hardship Fund and the pivoting strategies applied to stewardship of major gift prospects and other donors.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Case of Faith-based Institutions

Date: Thursday 1 October 2020
Time:10:30am – 11:30am
Venue:  Online interactive zoom meeting
Cost: FREE to members (log-in), $35 for non-members

Jeremy Johnson, Barrister at Bankside Chambers NZ will speak about the Royal Commission of Inquiry in Abuse in Care. Jeremy will outline the main aspects of the Inquiry and the impact and responsibilities that an institution or organisation will have if they or members of their community are identified through the inquiry.

Jeremy works across Auckland and Christchurch, he provides legal advice to the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia in relation to the work of the Commission and serves on the board of Christ’s College.

Tertiary/ Residential Colleges webinars

Welcome to our new members

A very warm welcome to our new members. We are thrilled to have you join us and look forward to meeting you in person at one of our events. 

Please join our private NZ FaceBook Group and join in the conversation with local industry peers. Feel free to pop any questions of items of interest in there or just say hello!