COLLABORATIVE VOICES is a 30min bulletin compiled in Wellington by the NZ Council of Social Services (NZCOSS) together with the NZ Federation of Voluntary and Welfare Organisations (NZFVWO). It focuses on various areas of the social-services sector - by discussing legislation, specific organisations, information-updates, and interviews.

This programme aims to profile the social-services sector in a way that actively demonstrates how organisations are working together collaboratively.

Collaborative Voices is presented by Ros Rice (NZCOSS) and David Barrow (NZFVWO). Ros and David both have experience in community radio broadcasting and are based in Wellington.

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NEXT PROGRAMME:

27th September -

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SUMMARIES OF RECENT PROGRAMMES:


AUGUST 2010 -
Guest interviewee on this month's programme was David McCartney from Community Housing Aotearoa.


JULY 2010 -
Linda Sutherland from the National Coucil Of Women was interviewed about that organisation's recent proposed reclassification by the Charities Commission.


JUNE 2010 -
In this 2-segment edition, Ros and David talked with Robin Gunston of Prison Fellowship NZ, and then to Paula Bennett (Minister of Social Welfare).


MAY 2010 -
Ros and David looked at what the FUNDING INFORMATION SERVICE is, and talked with its senior personnel.


APRIL 2010 -
Michael and David talked with LAURA BENEDICT on 'Social Lending'. Laura is from North Carolina and works for "Self Help" which is the largest not-for-profit lender in the USA. She is on a 7-month co-placement with the Office For the Community And Voluntary Sector.


MARCH 2010 -
Ros and Michael talked with Alasdair Finnie from the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector.


FEBRUARY 2010 -
Michael and guests discussed the outcomes from building community resilience.


DECEMBER 2009 -
Family-budgeting Christmas show.


NOVEMBER 2009 -
Michael and Ros talked with Brenda Pyatt from the Public Service Association, about Public Service restructuring and its effects on the community.


SEPTEMBER 2009 -
Michael interviewed the National Development Manager of the Community Sector Taskforce.


AUGUST 2009 -
Ros and Michael talked with Ros Coote and Catherine Cotter about what 'Community Central' is all about.


JULY 2009 -
Michael talked with Deborah Morris-Travers (Advocacy Manager at Barnardos) about the forthcoming Referendum on parental correction options.


JUNE 2009 -
Connor Twyford, Project Manager of "Workplace Wellbeing", talked with Ros & Michael about what the project is, and where it's at.


MAY 2009 -
Michael reviewed his recent trip to San Francisco where he attended technology conferences.


APRIL 2009 -
Ros is interviewed about the Australian Council of Social Services National Conference, which she attended earlier in April.


MARCH 2009 -
Wendy Wicks from the Disabled People's Assembly joined Ros & Michael to talk about collaboratively "Managing the Current Downturn Together".


FEBRUARY 2009 -
Alasdair Finnie joined us, from the Office for Community & Voluntary Sector.


JANUARY 2009 -
Wendy Reid from SANZ (Sustainable Aotearoa NZ) joined Ros and Michael to talk about "sustainability - the challenge for the sector in 2009".


NOVEMBER 2008 -
This was a panel 'muse' on the post-Election landscape - what/who will impact on the sector and who will lead the changes.


OCTOBER 2008 -
Rob Oram on the global financial crisis.


SEPTEMBER 2008 -
The theme of this month's programme was "Election 08" - the lead-up to it, and how to articulate to candidates what the social sector wants/needs. To discuss this, Ros and Michael interviewed Anna Kominik, Director of Wellington-based public-relations company Ideas Shop, which focuses on social sustainability. Anna has also been a political reporter for the DominionPost, a prime ministerial press secretary, and a press secretary for Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon.


AUGUST 2008 -
This month, we interviewed activist Pat Hanley from Civicus; an interesting discussion about civil society and the global conference held in Glasgow.


JULY 2008 -
Ros and Michael - and guests - talked in-depth about the use of computers, and the Internet, in the not-for-profit sector.


MAY 2008 -
An interview with Sue Bradford, the Green Party's spokesperson on the community and voluntary sector.


APRIL 2008 -
RAY SMITH (Deputy CEO of CYFS) was interviewed about the roll-out of $446M to the Not-For-Profit sector who are working with children and families in crisis, over the next 4 years. This massive cash injection was announced by the Prime Minister back in February this year.


MARCH 2008 -
An interview with TREVOR GARRETT, CEO of the Charities Commission, regarding registration as a charity under the recently-introduced legislation.


FEBRUARY 2008 -
Discussion took place of the Workplace Wellbeing Project about employment relations in the not-for-profit sector which is running workshops throughout NZ to talk about employment conditions and pay issues in our sector. Touched-on also were governance and management issues and what can be done when things go wrong.


JANUARY 2008 -
A panel of:

Ros Rowe - Executive Officer of NZ Council of Social Services

Tina Reid - from The Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations

Trevor McGlinchy - Director of The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services

discussed what's ahead in 2008 and what the groups are all about.