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| Tanya Anaha Operations Manager WhyOra Ko Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa te iwi Operations Manager of WhyOra, previous roles working in a variety of positions within Ministry of Social Development in Wellington and New Plymouth over a period of 15 years. Currently completing a Masters in Business Management WhyOra’s Vision/Kaupapa is to reduce poverty and increase the health and well-being of Māori in Taranaki, through increased participation in education and the workforce. WhyOra assists Maori to progress through education into meaningful jobs with possibilities for progression, and works to improve systems to increase successful employment and well-being of Māori. | |
| Thomas Brzostowski Director of Development The Nature Conservancy Tom is a philanthropy professional with a background in science and almost a decade of experience working for international conservation organisations. Originally from the UK, Tom is currently the Director of Development for the New Zealand Programme of The Nature Conservancy – one of the world's largest independent environmental organisations. Before Tom joined The Nature Conservancy he worked for WWF for five years in a variety of philanthropy roles, as well as the Executive Adviser to the former Chief Executive of WWF-UK. Tom is passionate about working with philanthropists, foundations and impact investors to help protect nature for both people and wildlife. | |
| Lani Evans Manager Vodafone NZ Foundation Lani Evans is manager of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation and an advocate for generosity in all its forms. She has a background in community work with a strong youth development focus. She was a 2015 Winston Churchill Fellow, looking at participatory practice in philanthropy and is the co-chair of Action Station, Chair and founder of the Thankyou Charitable Trust, sits on the Peter McKenzie Project committee and is Director of social enterprise Thankyou Payroll. | |
| Kate Frykberg Philanthropy and Community Advisor Te Muka Rau Kate is an independent philanthropy consultant, manages her own small family philanthropy, holds governance roles on a number of other philanthropic trusts and social enterprises, and is a regular blogger on philanthropic and community issues. Kate’s previous roles include Executive Director of the Todd Foundation and Chair of Philanthropy NZ. Her background prior to working in philanthropy was in IT and entrepreneurship; highlights include co-founding one of NZ's first Internet Development companies, receiving the ASB Business Woman of the Year award and being awarded the NZ Order of Merit. | |
| Jennifer Gill ONZM Chief Executive Officer Foundation North In 2004 Jennifer became CEO of Foundation North after 10 years as Executive Director of Fulbright NZ. Her career in philanthropy began in 1985 when Sir Roy McKenzie appointed her as the Executive Officer of his personal foundation, the Roy McKenzie Foundation. She has been a Trustee and Chair of the J R McKenzie Trust and is currently a Trustee of two family grant making trusts. She was a founding member of the board of the Wellington Regional Community Foundation, the Funding Information Service and Philanthropy NZ. Jenny recently retired from the board of Philanthropy New Zealand after twenty years’ service. Recently Jenny has been a member of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium as well a participant in international meetings on current issues in philanthropy hosted by the Rockefeller and Volkswagen Foundations. Jenny has contributed to the growing literature on philanthropy in Australasia and is frequently asked to speak on philanthropy. In 2017, Jenny received an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to philanthropy. | |
| David Hanna National Coordinator Inspiring Communities David is a fourth generation Pakeha, a partner and father of 4 children. A central strand of his working life has been supporting people to develop and maintain healthy relationships that sustain vibrant human communities. His roles have included time as a National Youth Director, a policy manager in Central Government, a consultant on positive child / youth development, consultant for World Bank, and now as the director of Wesley Community Action and member of Inspiring Communities team. Projects he has lead include; In Our Hands - NZ Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy, Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa, championing community led development in local communities across NZ and partnering with the Mongrel Mob and Black Power to run leadership development programmes. | |
| Dr Ed Hearnshaw Chief Advisor and Economist Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Ed Hearnshaw is a chief advisor and economist working at the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Prior to working at the PCE, Ed previously worked at the Ministry for the Environment for seven years undertaking economic and policy analysis within the domains of climate change, water, resource management and hazardous substances. He has also lectured at Lincoln University in environmental and resource economics and policy. He also received his PhD from Lincoln University. | |
| Hon Peeni Henare Minister for Youth Member of Parliament for Tāmaki Makaurau Hon Peeni Henare is the Member of Parliament for Tāmaki Makaurau, and is of Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi descent. He is the Minister for Community and Voluntary Sector, Minister for Whānau Ora, and Minister for Youth, as well as Associate Minister for Social Development and Associate Minister for ACC. Prior to politics Peeni worked as a businessman, broadcaster and teacher. Politics and public service is in his blood: his father was Erima Henare, who was head of the Māori Language Commission; his grandfather was Sir James Henare, a lieutenant colonel in the Māori Battalion, member of Te Rūnanga o te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Commander of the British Empire (CBE); and his great-grandfather Taurekareka (Tau) Henare was also a Member of Parliament, for the former electorate Northern Māori from 1914 to 1938. | |
| Eileen Kelly Grant Advisor / Programme Manager J R McKenzie Trust Eileen Kelly (NZ) joined J R McKenzie Trust in December 2014 and is a Grants Advisor and Programme Manager for the Trust’s proactive programme Connecting Education and Communities. Eileen has extensive experience in organisational and community development, human resource management, and capacity building in the resource poor settings of many countries in South East Asia and the Pacific. Prior to that, her work was in the tertiary community education sector and she is passionate about second chance learning and education opportunities particularly for women and parents. | |
| Bill Kermode Chief Executive NEXT Foundation Bill has been NEXT’s Chief Executive since its launch in 2014, leading its sixteen environmental and educational investments to date, as well as oversight of the previous philanthropic commitments made by Neal and Annette Plowman. He had for the previous two decades been a founding director of Direct Capital, New Zealand’s most experienced private company investor, and director of a number of private companies, including Ryman Healthcare, PF Olsen, NZ Pharmaceuticals, and EziBuy. He is a director of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, offering global social change-makers a path to New Zealand citizenship through New Zealand’s new Global Impact Visa, and is Chairman of the Palmerston North BHS Educational Foundation Trust and a graduate of Massey and Oxford Universities. | |
| Rose Kirkup Artistic Director Everybody Cool Lives Here Trust Rose Kirkup has established herself in several different roles within Aotearoa’s performance community. As a designer she has realised multiple shows since 2010. Rose extended herself to Stage Management working with Touch Compass Dance Trust (2010) and the World of WearableArts (2011- 2014). Rose has mentored emerging costumiers in three seasons of Young and Hungry’s Festival of the Future. In 2014 Rose was invited to the Playmarket Writers Retreat where she continued to develop her solo I am Tasha Fierce. 2016 will see her direct Moana Ete’s Versions of Allah. It has been her dream for some time to share her passion of live performance with the youth she supported at Active. No Post on Sunday is the next step following the success of Wake Up Tomorrow. | |
| Jim Matheson Education Consultant Jim Matheson (NZ) is an education consultant. He was a senior manager at the Ministry of Education for 12 years before spending a year in the Cook Islands developing and implementing a tertiary education strategy. He recently completed an analytical review of the education system in Kiribati and is currently consulting on a range of education projects. Jim is helping JR McKenzie Trust to implement its programme of supporting communities to strengthen their expectations and engagement in education. He is also a board member of Tai Wānanga, a new Māori secondary school, and a board member of the New Zealand Drug Foundation. | |
| Laura O'Connell Rapira Director ActionStation Laura O'Connell Rapira (Te Ātiawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whakaue) is the Director of ActionStation, an independent, crowdfunded community campaigning organisation representing over 180,000 New Zealanders acting together to create what we cannot achieve on our own: a society, economy and democracy that serves everyday people and Papatūānuku (Earth Mother). She is also the Co-Founder of RockEnrol, a volunteer-powered organisation dedicated to activating the political power of young people. Laura is passionate about unleashing the power of the crowd through digital and community organising, effective collaboration, values-based storytelling and creative campaigning. | |
| Martin Rodd Partnership Director Department of Conservation Martin Rodd is a Partnership Director for the Department of Conservation. Martin has worked in conservation for 25 years across New Zealand, from the Central North Island, the South Islands West Coast to Southland and the Top of the South. Martin’s roles have included Operations, Planning (in both Central and local government), and conservation leadership. Martin led the partnership development for the Abel Tasman National Park restoration, the portfolio of restoration sites for the NEXT Foundation and is today focused on leading the restoration landscape strategy for DOC. In addition to leading the strategy, Martin also chairs the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Conservation Alliance of iwi, local government and DOC across the Top of the South Island, aligning the strengths of the entities and connecting with funders/enables to achieve social, cultural and economic outcomes through conservation delivery on a landscape scale. Martin will share stories of this work some opportunities for others to get involved. | |
| Katherine Short Partner Terra Moana A nature lover, Katherine worked with WWF (17 yrs) globally to grow healthy and well-managed fisheries. Returning home in 2011 and completing a Masters on natural capital and ecosystem services, she is a Partner in Terra Moana Ltd with the kaupapa to support primary industry sustainability transformation, including through empowering community-business relationships and increasing the recognition for those driving the change from within. Katherine is a Leadership NZ Alumnus, Conscious Consumers Technical Adviser, co-founded Gecko NZ Trust (neighbourhood ecology), a Fish4all investor and shareholder, - No 1. recreational fishing app - Fisho’s Best Mate, and a trained Regenesis Practitioner | |
| Davina Smolders Operations Co-ordinator & Board Member Mid North Family Support Davina Smolders, is a Kerikeri resident that is: 1 part: Operations Co-ordinator & Board Member for Mid North Family Support, Rape Crisis & Youth Services. 1 part: Director for Te Haumaru Ltd, a Residential Naltrexone Treatment Center. 1 part: Producer of Digital Edutainment Apps for Therapists to engage and empower disenfranchised Youth. 1 part: Wife, mother and travel enthusiast (Favourite cities: Amsterdam, Nukualofa, Milan, Pattaya, Tenerife & Auckland) Mix those parts together, and she is a dynamic innovative entrepreneur, that enjoys breaking paths into cutting edge, digital, therapeutic interventions. | |
| Dr Eruera Tarena Executive Director Tokona te Raki: Māori Futures Collective Dr Eruera Tarena Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. Eruera is the Executive Director for Tokona te Raki: Māori Futures Collective, a Ngāi Tahu-led collaborative established to ensure all our tamariki are inspired by their futures, confident in their culture and prosperous in their careers. Our goal is equity in education, employment and income for all Ngāi Tahu and Māori in our takiwā by 2040. In order to remove barriers to success we need to move beyond silo’d, short-term pilot projects to focus on longer-term, sustainable and disruptive approaches to systems change. Our approach focuses innovation on where it is needed most – to look beyond the technical problems that are easier to deal with – to the deeply complex to create truly innovative solutions with meaningful impact. | |
| Dr Natalie Thorburn Policy Advisor National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges Natalie is a policy advisor for the National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges, and has a PhD from the University of Auckland. A registered social worker, she has experience in working with domestic and sexual violence. Her research centres on sexual exploitation, and most recently focused on the trafficking of young people within New Zealand for sex. | |
| Adrienne Thurston Foundation Manager Hugh Green Foundation Adrienne was employed by Hugh as the Manager of the Foundation in 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Business Studies, and comes from a background in management and accounting. Adrienne is passionate about the philanthropic sector, she enjoys the challenge of drilling down to the root causes of social issues, and collaborating with inspiring people to provide effective, impactful and innovative interventions and solutions. She is also mother to 4 boys, and is driven to ensure they are brought up in a New Zealand that prides itself on excellent education, healthcare and community connectedness for all. | |
