Latest Success Stories

Pocket.Jobs
Pocket.Jobs
Pocket.jobs is an online marketplace for jobs. Our goal is to create happy prosperous villages by unleashing talent in your community. Give a job. Get a job done. Put money back into the...
AskShareGive     www.asksharegive.org.nz
AskShareGive www.asksharegive.org.nz
AskShareGive is an online community where people share their resources - including old and unwanted goods, time and skills without money changing hands.
Wellington Timebank
Wellington Timebank
The Wellington Timebank is a community of people from across the city who share skills and resources with each other. Members of a Timebank exchange skills, time and knowledge. We use tim...
WCHA RCHEN?
WCHA RCHEN?
Whole Community Holistic Approach to Resource Conservation, Health & Education Now WCHA RCHEN ("Wacha reckon?") is a model for maximizing community resilience, consisting of a network of...
Neighbourhood Fruit for Food Bank Wanganui
Neighbourhood Fruit for Food Bank Wanganui
Encouraging people to contact their neighbours and ask if they have excess fruit, which they will collect on their behalf and distribute to the food bank. A simple flyer is available to ...
Heritage fruit tree project
Heritage fruit tree project
Wow, today was the inaugural planting ceremony of 9 heritage apple trees initiated by the Glengarry Community group. This Invercargil suburban team planted at the local community center,...
Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood
Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood
Successful Urban Eco-Village in West Auckland based on permaculture principles
Rototai Edible Art Walkway
Rototai Edible Art Walkway
A bare dirt walkway for pedestrian safety was transformed into an edible walkway and art piece for the local community over a few years.
Koha Day - Ahipara
Koha Day - Ahipara
A coordinated volunteers day to enable people with disabilities to go surfing and those with time to give meaningfully in their community
GOnet communications
GOnet communications
Connecting people to the information highway without costing them more than it should. Giving the people choice!
The Hemp Farm New Zealand Limited
The Hemp Farm New Zealand Limited
Hemp can be used to build empowerment to local communities by offering a decentralised means to create food, fuel, medicine and fibre off poor soils allowing a host of small and large sca...
Free cycle trailer hire
Free cycle trailer hire
Loan a bike trailer for a month for free to try out this fantastic way or carrying all your stuff around town. They come in different sizes and can be used for shopping, markets, picnics,...
ICEcycles
ICEcycles
Inner City East Cycles (ICEcycles) runs 3 free bike fix ups every year. Based in Linwood, we also do up donated bikes and give them away to people on no or low wages. We do accept a koha ...
Nga Hua a Tane   ( Rainforest Ecosystem services value research program)
Nga Hua a Tane ( Rainforest Ecosystem services value research program)
Rainforests provide a massive range of services to support life on our planet most of which go largely unrecognised and are totally undervalued. These are too often buried under a pre-occ...
The Little House That Could
The Little House That Could
The Little House That Could is a model for whole-community sustainability education. It takes an eco-thrifty approach to energy-efficient renovation, permaculture food production and educ...
Local Milk Supply
Local Milk Supply
Local farmer sells organic milk direct to locals using smart self service vending machine
A new New Zealand Christmas
A new New Zealand Christmas
This year New Zealanders will give the gift of genuine concern for other New Zealanders.
WAIS
WAIS
The Wairarapa Green Dollar Exchange Inc began in 1991 offering a LETS service to members. Markets were held in members gardens every month or so and "chits" (cheques) collected and proces...
Addington Action
Addington Action
Addington residents organising solidarity in response to the Canterbury earthquakes.
Project Lyttlelton
Project Lyttlelton
Project Lyttelton is a grass-roots organisation in Lyttelton, New Zealand, that is attracting wide attention both nationally and internationally. Its numerous successful community-led pro...
Tiaho Trust
Tiaho Trust
Tiaho Trust is a ‘for disabled - by disabled’ organisation that provides information and empowerment services to the disabled community of Northland. We are situated in the Central Busine...
Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre Oral History Project
Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre Oral History Project
To provide more information about local history in an area of Wellington which had undergone dramatic physical and social changes since the 1920s.
Wild About New Zealand
Wild About New Zealand
Wild about New Zealand is an innovative “hands-on” biodiversity investigation and action programme that provides schools and community volunteers within the Bay of Plenty the chance to he...
The Arts Recycling Centre
The Arts Recycling Centre
The Arts Recycling Centre provides a unique service to the Manawatu community by collecting and redistributing clean recycled waste materials from members of the community and local busin...
Taranaki E-Learning Trust
Taranaki E-Learning Trust
The Taranaki E-Learning trust took over the Computers in Homes challenge from Eltham Community Care, who helped us manage and oversee the 2006-2008 Computers in Homes project with funding...
McLaren Park Henderson South Community Initiative Incorporated (MPHS)
McLaren Park Henderson South Community Initiative Incorporated (MPHS)
a community-based organisation offering initiatives and programmes for the residents of the McLaren Park Henderson South Community - for the community, by the Community
PHAB Association Inc
PHAB Association Inc
Encourages people with and without disabilities to come together on equal terms, to achieve complete integration within the wider community.
Springboard Community Works
Springboard Community Works
Empowering lifes - connecting communites We’re passionate about making a difference in our community. Since 2002, we’ve worked with at-risk youth in the North Rodney region, through our ...
Grandparents raising Grandchildren Trust
Grandparents raising Grandchildren Trust
Te Tautoko i ngā Tūpuna, Mātua, me te Whānau, i roto i ngā mahi tiaki Mokopuna i ngā rā ō mua, ināianei, me ngā rā kei te heke mai. Supporting, Grandparents/kin and grandchildren/kin...
The Lifewise Trust
The Lifewise Trust
LIFEWISE is an Auckland-based community organisation initiating new ways to solve challenging social issues and providing services to families in need, the homeless as well as older and d...