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workshops With 24 workshops run by more than 70 incredibly talented people over two days – including several young people who Skyped in HERE to talk about their grantmaking project in Pennsylvania – there were rich pickings for our 342 conference-goers. Themes ranged from youth in philanthropy and Treaty settlements to governance and social investment. Simon Bowden, Arts Foundation Kevin Murphy and his Youth Advisory Committee Founder and Chief Executive of the Inspiring Stories Trust, Guy Ryan, shared the trailer for his international award-winning film Carving the Future, about young Kiwis stepping up to tackle global issues in our own backyard and the Trust’s 2012 film competition winner Continuity Error, about a boy’s passion for conservation. It was off the back of Carving the Future’s success that the Trust was born. Helen Baxter, Mohawk Media Emily Bruce and Heath Hutton, JustSpeak The young people from Berks County USA,were an amazing example of not only how young people can be trusted to give money and give it really well but also how they can be inspired to raise it. Mark Bentley, Auckland Communities Foundation The days flowed really well, and didn’t get bored once! Perfect. Workshop streams were varied and full. Survey feedback Sam Caldwall, JR McKenzie Trust The networking and connections in New Zealand and Australia, has just been so exciting. Emily Tow Jackson Professor Manuka Henare, Associate Dean, Maori and Pacific Development, Auckland University 10 I really did appreciate the opportunity that Manuka Henare gave (and to conference organisers for providing a safe environment) to talk openly, people not feeling that they couldn’t ask questions. I think lots of people want to know what is happening in the Maori world but are not given the opportunity to discuss those sorts of things. Robyn Rauna, East Coast & Central Community Trust Robyn Rauna
speakers Ian Narev Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Chief Executive and Chair of the Springboard Trust “A business depends on the success of its community.” & Bronwen Golder Director of the Pew Foundation’s Kermadec Initiative Corporate banker-turned-conservationist Bronwen Golder doesn’t have to sweat “the little stuff” in her bid to create the world’s largest marine reserve in New Zealand’s back yard, thanks to her backers. “It’s kind of a no-brainer, that if you have one of the last unprotected spaces in the world, you protect it!” Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Chief Executive Ian Narev said the “anchor” reason for corporates to work with non-profits is that good business needs strong communities. “A business that is thriving for the short term while the community around it is struggling, is never going to be a viable business in the long term.” Also, staff love to contribute, business can learn much from the creativity of under-resourced non-profits and have a real impact on their communities. But when engaging, businesses must shed their “almost arrogance”, said Ian, recalling his own “humbling” experience approaching school principals when launching the Springboard Trust. “Rather than the normal accolades that we’d thought we’d get about how wonderful this is, the reaction was, ‘You’re just another bunch of do-gooders who think you know something about a sector.” A clear strategy developed jointly on how a business can help is key. One school asked a business for its male staff to simply sit in a playground and read to provide literate male role models. “No business was ever going to come up with that idea!” In a final “controversial” point, Ian suggested fragmentation is the enemy of success. “The reality is, in the not-for-profit sector there are too many people trying to do the same thing.” They must find the gaps and pool resources for maximum impact. Businesses could help here, identifying the “really successful, viable players” in communities who should get more resources. “I have never done a project report, never had a budget. I have never been asked ‘why did you take nine artists into the ocean?” The Kermadec initiative is part of the Global Ocean Legacy – a project of the Pew Foundation and a group of US philanthropists including Julian Robertson – which aims to set up a worldwide network of ocean reserves. Their high-trust, long-haul approach allowed Bronwen to arrange a voyage in 2011 with some of New Zealand’s “great communicators” – writers, artists, sculptors – to “capture the essence” of the Kermadecs, a group of islands northeast of New Zealand. A book and exhibition resulted, along with new relationships between conservationists, artists, the New Zealand and Chilean navies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade and beyond. “Without the end result, the process has started with a diverse range of people.” Last year Bronwen took another 30 young people and scientists to the islands, creating another constituency who have set up an NGO. “It’s kind of a no-brainer, that if you have one of the last unprotected spaces in the world, you protect it!” Listen to Bronwen’s presentation, HERE See her interview in the Dominion Post, HERE Watch a film clip of their trip to the Kermadec, HERE See Ian’s Dominion Post interview, HERE Gregory O’Brien Poet, Jennifer Gill and Bronwen Golder 11
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