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NZ Navigator, CommunityNet & Digital Stuff We Love

NZ Navigator, CommunityNet & Digital Stuff We Love

NZ Navigator, CommunityNet & Digital Stuff We Love

Platform Trust was one of the initial instigators of these free resources which are now regularly accessed by thousands of users.

NZ Navigator Trust runs a set of websites to help equip community organisations with high-quality tools to create a thriving charity and community sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Many of you will know about NZ Navigator, with them now notching up more than 2,500 subscribers! For those of you who do not, NZ Navigator Trust runs three different websites to help community organisations.

NZ Navigator is an online self-assessment tool that helps identify an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses across the important areas of:

CommunityNet Aotearoa is an online storehouse of free resources designed to strengthen communities.

Digital Stuff We Love is a website dedicated to software to help run your organisation. These have all been reviewed and recommended by community organisation leaders.

  • Direction
  • Governance
  • Leadership
  • People
  • Administration
  • Communication
  • Finances
  • Evaluation
  • Relationships
 

Together these free tools enable groups to develop stronger organisations, set their own priorities for action and access resources to assist in that development.

These tools are:

  • Simple - the resources are easy to use.
  • Relevant - they make sense to people.
  • Useful - they help people to solve a problem and/or to improve.
  • Trusted - they are curated by the community for the community.

Other work areas

Policy - NZ Navigator, CommunityNet & Digital Stuff We Love | Platform Trust

Policy

Contributing to policy development, as well as providing a policy library and a range of publications to support the sector.

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Advocacy - NZ Navigator, CommunityNet & Digital Stuff We Love | Platform Trust

Advocacy

Fostering strategic partnerships and alliances to achieve a strong and sustainable mental health and addiction NGO and community sector.

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