Alongside our first round of funding recipients for the 2022 Impact Investment Readiness Programme (IIRP), Ākina is proud to introduce the second round of funding recipients.
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The Good Gift Guide is back for 2022 for your holiday and summer shopping! This is not your average gift guide.. all the social enterprises listed are certified Ākina Impact Suppliers that provide positive impact of many kinds with every product you purchase.
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Each year we like to stop, celebrate and recognise great performances amongst the Ākina team with the Ākina Impact Awards. The 2022 results are in! Drum roll please...
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With $300,000 in programme funding up for grabs the Impact Investment Readiness Programme is a great chance for impact-driven businesses to access the support they need to grow.
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You’ve heard it in the media, seen it addressed in business blogs and you’re very likely discussing it around your boardroom – finding talent right now is a struggle for small businesses and social enterprises. Founder of Enlighten Talent, Nicola van Heerden shares what you can do to attract and retain the talent you need.
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It’s been a year. Yikes! 52 weeks as Chief Executive of Ākina. On October 11, 2021 we started our journey of many steps together. Today, I wanted to stop and reflect, and share 5 things I have learned:
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Ākina had the pleasure of sponsoring the Social Enterprise Category at the 2022 Māori Womens Development Inc (MWDI) Māori Businesswomen's Awards. The awards encourage the economic development of wāhine Māori and their whānau.
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The Ākina Impact Investment Readiness Programme (IIRP) provides funding to impact-led businesses enabling them engage professional advisors and support that helps them get ready to seek impact investment.
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Ākina is delighted to announce that we are the Official Impact Partner for Chapter Zero New Zealand, hosted by the Institute of Directors (IoD) New Zealand
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Learn how 2021 IIRP recipients, co-founders of Nau Mai Rā, Benjamin Armstrong & Ezra Hirawani, and the Executive Director of Localised, Matthew Luxon used their IIRP funding to get their organisation investment ready.
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The Impact Investment Readiness Programme is back for the sixth year running – and it's the biggest round ever, with $300,000 available.
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In May this year, our Director of Ākina Invest, Jackson Rowland, travelled to Davos to attend the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting. Jackson met world leaders, workshopped sustainable finance initiatives, and heard first hand reports of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing our planet. It was the absence of one particular theme which got him thinking the most.
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Not all businesses are able to operate like social enterprises but all businesses can and should think about their impact and their purpose; how they can minimise negative impacts like carbon emissions or waste, and how they can maximise positive impact.
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Ākina’s Chief executive, Nicola Nation shares her reflections on the Ākina day trip to the Waitangi Grounds, hosted by Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi-O-Ngāpuhi.
Ākina are welcoming two new faces to the whānau this month, with new trustees – Cheryl Reynolds and Wayne Vargis – joining the Ākina Board.
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With the release of the Ministerial Briefing Paper on Government support for social enterprise, it seems as though not enough is being done to accelerate purpose-led business in Aotearoa. Ākina CEO Nicola Nation writes about what needs to be done now.
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An initial response from Ākina to the recently published Ministerial briefing paper on the social enterprise development programme – The Impact Initiative.
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Sustainability is so 2021. There’s a new kid on the block and they’re called regeneration. Regeneration takes sustainability a step further - if sustainability is about doing “less harm” then regeneration is about doing “more good”. Organisations that adopt a regenerative mindset can find new ways to create more impact.
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Late last year our Director of Social Procurement, Seán Barnes, won the NZ Procurement Excellence Forum supreme award and the procurement professional of the year award. We figured this meant he’d probably have something interesting to say about the future of procurement, so we asked him a few questions.
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Every year, we look back at the work that’s been delivered and the change we helped our clients and partners to create. This report is a story of that change.
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