Tooling up the sector

An Innovative Approach to Strategy (video)
Strategy is changing for organisations – from being burdensome, prescriptive, detailed – to setting direction and innovating the future as we head there. This session provides senior leaders wanting to rejuvenate their organisations with an innovative approach to strategy.

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Developing Strategy for your Organisation
A workbook that outlines the role of strategy in organisational planning and how to create an actionable strategy.

Strategic Plan Framework: A guide for arts organisations
This document has been prepared as a guide for arts and cultural organisations where funders require them.

Writing a Strategic Plan: Guide for Independent Arts and Cultural Organisations
Intended to be a guide for arts and cultural organisations seeking grant funding, it provides information about how to approach building strategy and a template of what is typically included.

CreativeNZ - New Programmes Funding Workshop Handout

Learn about the 8 new contestable funding and support opportunities tailored to Early Career Artists, Artists and Practitioner, and Arts Organisations and Groups.

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CreativeNZ Funding Roadshow Presentation Slides

Explore the presentation slides from the recent Creative NZ Funding Workshops, covering funding opportunities, application tips, and insights into navigating the funding landscape.

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Fundraising and Sponsorship
Written to guide and support sports and recreation organisations to attract and secure funds, the parallels with the creative sector, and in particular Community Arts are clear.

Kick a** content - developing winning proposals (video)
A walk through the proposal development process, and an outline of some approaches to help strengthen funding submissions and secure more resources.

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Donations Toolkit
A suite of information providing advice and suggestions for approaching, securing and keeping donors.

Business Sponsorship
A comprehensive and practical guide of identifying the ‘fit’, and then the pitch and powerful ongoing relationship management.

Creating Content that Counts in a Changing World (video)
A refresher on communicating your purpose and impact to current and potential supporters. Looks at the importance of ‘doing digital right’ and provides tips on how to create compelling content to get the attention of donors, funders, and the news media.

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Page of useful links
One Page Persona worksheet
Social Media Planner
Social Media Performance Scorecard

Sharing Your Story
A workbook presenting key concepts to help organisations build a communication plan that supports their strategy.

Marketing Checklist
Heaps of helpful and practical ideas in here and a step-by-step list to make it happen.

Social Media
A general toolkit for marketing, communications and social media for sports clubs has a lot of immediate crossover to arts organisations.

Board Resources: Ngā Rauemi
A suite of useful resources to help individuals on their governance journey and organisations engage in best practice governance.

Getting on Board: a governance resource for arts organisations
A resource to develop governance capability in the arts sector. This edition, while still including the fundamentals of good governance practice, has new material on a number of topics such as organisational learning, planning for effective board meetings and boardroom dynamics. (4th Edition, 2014).

Nine Steps to Effective Governance
Originally created as a reference for the sport sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, it has been well received and proven useful across the wider non-profit sector here and around the world.

Governance Lite
A concise version of the ‘Nine Steps to Effective Governance’ Framework for Sport and Recreation in New Zealand, adapted for small and voluntary organisations and, recognising that the majority of staff are volunteers, aims to help improve governance functions ensuring that members get enjoyment and satisfaction from their efforts.

Six Financial Practices Every Artist Needs
An article published for mainly visual artists selling their work with applications for any creative.

Accounting for Non-Accountants
A resource designed for those in the sport sector to understand the basics of financial statements, budgeting and financial sustainability.

Financial Policies and Procedures
Financial policies reflecting current New Zealand legislation covering Financial Management, Risk, Tax, Investments, Operating expenditure and Payables, etc.

Creative Play, Everyday (Webinar hosted by Dr Jeremy Mayall)
Exploring different pathways about how play and general creative curiosity be a useful process for everyone, even outside of the realms of artistic endeavour.

Music Helps: Talk To Us
If you work in the NZ Arts Industry and need some personal wellbeing support, you are now able to use the MusicHelps Wellbeing Service. You get FREE counselling sessions with trained counsellors available 24/7.

You can contact them either on line or via phone tollfree 0508 MUSICHELPS.

Whariki Hauora Wellbeing
Reducing stigma and discrimination using best-practice, these guidelines give positive tips and considerations for reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental-health or addition problems.

Joy – Being. Being Together and making political art (A webinar hosted by Jo Randerson)
Members of the community, Barbarian team members, and other artists will join Jo in discussing how to create social and physical spaces for well-being, what arts and well-being means in practice to them and how they work at the intersection of social justice and well-being.

Evaluating community based arts in Aotearoa: an introductory guide (Rachel Trotman and Amber Walls)
A basic introductory-level resource for people new to evaluation, this tool aims to support artists and arts organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand to demonstrate the value of their work.

Embedding Evaluation in your Mahi (video)
Embedding evaluative thinking and practice into your work, and taking a values-based, tikanga-led and evidence-informed approach to evaluating your mahi.

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What is Social Enterprise
A guide all about impact-led business and social enterprise. Use it to understand if social enterprise is the right approach for business ideas, and where social enterprise fits in the context of New Zealand’s economy.

Demonstrating Impact
A workbook containing useful tools to help organisations understand and demonstrate their impact.

Fundraising and Sponsorship
Written to guide sports and recreation organisations to attract and secure funds, the parallels with the creative sector, and in particular Community Arts are clear.

Community Arts Toolkit
A best-practice guide to community arts projects in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Volunteer Management Toolkit
A toolkit intended for use by boards, managers and co-ordinators to help attract, manage and retain volunteers.

Knowledge Hub Te Pūaho o te Ako and Kia Whiti Tonu - online capability and capacity building resources
Funded by Foundation North in collaboration between the Centre for Social Impact, Hui E! Community Aotearoa, Philanthropy New Zealand, and Volunteering New Zealand covering a range of topics.

Te Ora Auaha Creative Wellbeing Alliance
Curated articles and resources from trusted arts and wellbeing community.

Arts Access Aotearoa Putanga Toi Ki Aotearoa
Arts Access Aotearoa provides an information service and Information Hub, designed to support and build the capacity of stakeholders and networks around the country. They also promote the importance of access to the arts and encourage best practice in being accessible arts organisations and practitioners.

Community Governance Ngā Rauemi
Supporting best practice governance of community organisations across Aotearoa.

Kete Mātauranga
Kete Mātauranga is a knowledge hub for creative sector practice, advocacy, and capability building. The kete includes resources produced by Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi, and by the wider sector.

Toolkit for Social Enterprises

The Basement Theatre
Artist Base is provided for theatre practitioners using their space and has ended up being a valuable and practical collection of resources, templates and tools.

Creative New Zealand Developments & Resources
Development and Resources provides published research-based reports for the sector or specific to artists and arts organisations applying for grants.

Sector Guidance
Sector Guidance supports sport organisations to manage the many aspects of their business processes, develop their leadership and people, shape policy and help ensure compliance. Best-practice tools are provided to help guide and develop organisations.

Create New Income Toolkit
In addition to practical advice and templates for their own fund seekers, their Create New Income Toolkit is a ‘how to’ approach that shows steps needed to grow and develop income streams through philanthropy, sponsorship, crowdfunding and new products.

Australia Council for the Arts
Online Resources is a resource centre of case studies and evidence in topics such as mental wellbeing, artistic leadership and best practice governance.