Governance / Kaitiaki group
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From left to right: Back row: Margy-Jean Malcolm, Marion Blake, Garth Nowland-Foreman (Co-chair), Robyn Kamira (website), Mariao Hohaia, Kataraina Pipi (Co-chair). Front row: Sally Fenwick-Ridley (Treasurer), Jan Hinde (Manager), Pania Coote, Carolyn Cordery. Missing: Leon Hawea and Sonya Rimene.
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The Research Centre’s governance group has two caucuses; Tangata whenua and Tangata tiriti.
Tangata Whenua caucus members are:
Kataraina Pipi: Co-chair
Pania Coote
Shelley Hoani
Mariao Hohaia
Sonya Rimene
Ariana Stockdale-Frost
Tangata Tiriti caucus members are:
Garth Nowland-Foreman: Co-chair
Sally Fenwick Ridley: Treasurer
Marion Blake
Bronwyn Boon
Carolyn Cordery
Margy-Jean Malcolm
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Tangata Whenua caucus members
Co-Chair Kataraina Pipi, Ngati Porou, Ngati Hine
Kataraina is a director of the Paewhenua Hou Partnership operating as FEM (2006) Ltd. She is a project manager, research and evaluation consultant, trainer and facilitator. Kataraina has had seven years as a practising evaluator and researcher and is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society, the American Evaluation Society and the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association.
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Pania Coote (nee Simeon), Kai Tahu, Ngati Kauwhata and Ngati Porou
Pania Coote is the Maori Health Manager / Kaiwhakahaere of the Maori Health Unit – Te Huinga Tahi at Southland Hospital. She has a Masters in Social Welfare specialising in research, management, supervision and counselling. Pania affiliates to Awarua Runanga. She has experience in social health and education, and voluntary sectors, and an interest Maori initiatives and aspirations. She is a member of the Community Sector Taskforce, Bluff Community Board, ANZASW, Bluff Rugby Club, Arahi Women’s Welfare League, Southern Institute of Technology, Bluff Charitable Trust and Bluff Oyster Festival. Pania lives in Bluff with Russell, their three children, and one mokopuna.
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Mariao Te Huranga Hohaia, Ngati Rehia, Ngati Kura, Ngai Hao
Mariao is an Iwi practitioner who is employed by Te Runanga A Iwi O Ngapuhi as Hapu Development Projects Coordinator for groups and organisations within Te Tai o Tokerau. He has had broad experience in arts, youth, social, education, community and hapu development. He is serving on a number of governance and management groups that are focused towards community and whanau / hapu development. He lives in Peiwharangi with his partner Katharine and their two children.
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Sonya Rimene, Rangitane, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu and Te Arawa.
Sonya is of Rangitaane, Kahungunu, Te Arawa and Kai Tahu descent. Sonya has worked in policy and operational policy across a range of government departments for over 15 years (Social Policy Agency, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Education, Corrections). Since 2003, Sonya held the role of Kaihautu in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and has strong relationship with Iwi/Maori across Aotearoa. She is now working with Plunket and passionate about developing services that empower whanau to achieve their aspirations.
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Ariana Stockdale-Frost, Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, Ngait Kahungunu.
Ariana Stockdale-Frost completed a diploma in education and taught in Christchurch for 14 years. On moving to the Hawkes Bay in 2002, Ariana accepted a position as health promoter for Te Rangihaeata Oranga Trust, Hawkes Bay Regional Problem Gambling Services where she developed and implemented community-based health promotion projects. In 2003-5, Ariana was the Regional Coordinator for Health Promotions National Youth Project which involved liaising with schools and coordinating Train-the-trainer
workshops in Hawkes Bay, Rotorua, Gisborne, Auckland and Palmerston North. Currently employed as a researcher at The Eastern Institute of Technology, Ariana has been an active researcher involved with Maori and community-based research projects.
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Shelley Hoani
Shelley is of Ngati Pou, Ngati Mahuta and Ngati Makino descent. Shelley is a mother of 13 and a ‘mama’ to her eight mokopuna. She has been a kaimahi for Te Wananga o Aotearoa since 2003 when as a recent graduate of Waikato University she became a kaiako of te reo Maori. Since then Shelley has held a number of portfolios within the Marautanga (curriculum) directorate. Her most recent journey over the past two years has been with rangahau & research within the organisation focused on capability and capacity building. However, her focus now centres around the quality assurance of all TWoA publications produced as a result of rangahau activity and kaiarahi (curriculum portfolio owner) for two programmes (Certificate in Community Innovation and Bachelor of Maori Advancement). She is passionate about learning, writing and transformation through education.
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Tangata Tiriti caucus members
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Co-Chair Garth Nowland-Foreman
Garth runs Community Solutions, a small consulting and training firm specialising in strategy, evaluation and governance for non-profit organisations and those who fund them. He also lectures in the Unitec NZ Graduate Programme in Not for Profit Management – in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific – specialising in governance, social policy, community research, social audit, ethics, change management, strategy, and capacity building for non-profit organisations. Garth has researched and written widely on these topics and also on non-profit funding and accountability, and strategic philanthropy.
Garth has a number of voluntary roles and is on the boards of the Lottery Grants, Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research (ANZTSR), and the Christchurch Methodist Mission. He chaired the Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non Profit Sector and was the initial editor for the Community Research “How to” pages of www.community.net.nz. Garth was also the first SAN registered Social Auditor in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previously, he worked as an NGO lobbyist heading up a government policy and research unit, and was in a Cabinet Minister’s office. He was national director of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) for six years. Garth has two adult sons, one of whom has a number of disabilities.
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Treasurer Sally Fenwick Ridley
Sally is originally from the north and spent most of her life in Waitetuna, Waikato. She is the Research and Communications Manager at Social Services Waikato. Her focus is on community research and development, building capacity and disseminating information. She has a Masters in Social Sciences, a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Psychology, is a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association, and a board member of the Institute of Community Psychology Aotearoa.
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Marion Blake
Marion has spent most of her working life in the public service in a variety of health, disability and social service settings. These have included leadership roles in hospitals and service management, planning and developing new community services, quality assurance and workforce development.
In recent years, Marion has participated in many workforce committees and developments in the mental health NGO sector. While working as an Auditor she experienced many community organisations that provide essential services to users of mental illness and addiction services. This increased understanding of this work assisted in her current role as CEO of Platform. Platform supports and networks organisations to create a modern mental health system and strong community based supports for people with mental illness and addictions. Marion is Chair of ANGOA (Association of Non-Government Organisations) and often bridges the gaps of understanding and translating between the ‘cultures’ of the community sector and the Government.
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Bronwyn Boon
Bronwyn is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Otago. She entered the university system after 10 years nursing in New Zealand, England and Oman. Following her Masters and PhD study, Bronwyn’s research focused on organisation, identity, knowledge and place.
In the last three years she has “finally seen the light” and shifted her research attention to the community sector. She is working with / for a community organisation on their multi-stakeholder evaluation project. Bronwyn is working to increase her understanding so that she can contribute to research within the community sector in a meaningful way, as well as raise the profile of this important sector in her undergraduate and postgraduate university teaching.
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.Carolyn Cordery
Carolyn is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington and Chair of the Not-for-profit Sector Advisory Committee at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She is actively involved in local community and voluntary sector organisations in governance roles.
Carolyn is particularly interested in researching funding into and accountability from the sector and is on the Funding and Accountability Working Group drawn together by the Office of the Community and Voluntary Sector. She actively encourages post-graduate students from the School of Accounting and Commercial Law to respond to research needs from the sector and uses case studies from the sector in her accounting information systems and audit classes at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
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Staff
Jan Hinde, Manager
Jan comes from the North of England where she spent over 10 years involved in Community Arts Development before joining the Arts Council in Ireland as Head of Arts Participation. She arrived in New Zealand for a placement with Creative New Zealand and has since taken diverse roles with the community and voluntary sector. She is a passionate advocate of small NGO’s. Jan is a member of the Treaty Relations Group of Quakers Aotearoa, a massage therapist, and New Zealand’s only female Uilleann Piper.
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Website
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