Not for profits

type: Webcast
date: 9 Sep 2025

Purpose before profit: Navigating the unique challenges of NFP boards

Running a not-for-profit board? Let’s talk about how to stay true to your purpose while lifting your governance game.

Not for profits

type: Article
date: 2 Sep 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Our success is in our succession

Recruitment and renewal sit at the heart of NFP boards. Succession must go beyond shoulder-tapping to keep organisations future fit.

Not for profits
Succession Planning

type: Submission
date: 12 Jun 2025
read time: 2 min to read

Rethinking fees and levies: The case for balance and fairness

The IoD’s submission on MBIE’s review highlights pressure on not-for-profit boards and calls for fairer funding of enforcement activity.

Not for profits

type: Article
date: 9 Jun 2025
read time: 4 min to read

Time to recognise the invisible asset

One million Kiwis volunteer each year – yet many boards still don’t quantify or track their contribution. That needs to change.

Not for profits

type: Article
date: 14 May 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Fields of change: Governing sport for climate resilience

As climate change disrupts sport across New Zealand, boards ensure adaptation strategies do not deepen existing inequalities.

Climate change
Diversity
Not for profits

type: Article
date: 30 Apr 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Charity governance reviews: A requirement and an opportunity

Governance reviews are now mandatory for registered charities, but more importantly, they can strengthen leadership, resilience and impact.

Not for profits

type: Article
date: 20 Mar 2025
read time: 3 min to read

A time-sensitive opportunity for charities to build financial sustainability

The JBWere Bequest Report 2025 highlights an opportunity for charitable organisations to strengthen financial resilience.

Family business
Not for profits
Purpose

type: Article
date: 6 Mar 2025
read time: 4 min to read

Multiplying the impact

Could collaboration ease the pain in the for-purpose sector? Suzanne Cookson believes it can and that change can be multiplied by doing so.

Board meetings
Chairing
Not for profits

CPD

1 day • Face to face learning

Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials

Gain a confident grasp of robust board processes, good decision-making, and board operations in a not-for-profit context.

Board composition
Board meetings
Board-management relationship

CPD

6 hours • Online

Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials - online module series

Understand the boards’ role, processes and unique challenges in the not-for-profit environment.

Board composition
Board meetings
Board-management relationship

CPD

3 hours • Online

Not-for-Profit Finance Essentials - online module series

Explore the financial role of a not-for-profit board member.

Director duties
Due diligence
Not for profits

CPD

9 hours • Online

Not-for-Profit Governance & Finance Essentials online bundle

This bundle includes our online Not-for-Profit Governance Essentials modules and Not-For-Profit Finance Essentials modules.

Board composition
Board meetings
Board-management relationship