HRINZ Conference
Zuri Supporting the Community Sector at the 2009 HRINZ Conference
In 2009 Zuri sponsored a place for Conor Twyford to attend the HRINZ Conference. Conor is Project Manager of the Workplace Wellbeing Project, a collaboration between four national community sector organisations to promote and support effective employment practices in the community and voluntary sector. For more information contact Conor on 021 213 2553 or check out the Project website, www.communitycentral.org.nz/workplace-wellbeing
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Conor Twyford (left) at the 2009 HRINZ Conference with Diane Edwards (right).
Zuri Sponsors a Place at the 2008 HRINZ Conference
Zuri recognises that often there are organisations where staff miss out on attending seminars and conferences because of funding limitations. Each year Zuri sponsors someone to attend the HRINZ Conference through the HRINZ Conference Gifting Programme. In 2008 the recipient was Izak Kotze from Presbyterian Support Central.
Diane Edwards with Izak Kotze from Presbyterian Support Central.
Diane Edwards Presents at the 2008 HRINZ Conference
In September 2008 Diane Edwards attended the HRINZ National Conference where she co- presented a session called “Pathways to Sustainability - Change in the Not-For-Profit Sector” alongside National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Chief Executive Kerry Dalton.
Questions of sustainability seem superfluous when an organisation is successful over a long period of time, receives excellent reviews from its clients and is full of highly skilled and educated people. Yet that was the challenge being faced by the New Zealand Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux.
Three years ago the NZACAB was forced to take a close look at itself. Seeing other organisations, in the government, NGO and private sectors starting to offer similar services, it was prompted to consider how its service was most valuable to the community. A robust strategic review was conducted, involving hundreds of its volunteers.
Towards the end of 2007 an implementation plan was formulated, which involved a nationwide operational review and a complete overhaul of its technology systems. But the level of change being proposed and the scale of the implementation required for an organisation with limited funding meant that that the plan was one that would take five years to complete.
To assist with the implementation, Diane was appointed as the Programme
Manager to help drive the initial change process, and existing staff
in National Office were mobilised into an impressive team of change
agents. The conference presentation outlined their journey to date and
looked confidently towards the future.
