New Zealand Office for the Community & Voluntary Sector

Purpose

Work Programme

• supporting work to build the capacity of the sector, such as funding the Community Sector Taskforce to undertake community-driven initiatives
• building knowledge about the community sector and volunteering, for example, work on the Study of the New Zealand Non-profit Sector that helped provide a clearer picture of the nature and extent of non-profit sector activity within New Zealand
• providing other government agencies with advice on overcoming policy barriers and addressing issues of concern to the community and voluntary sector
• actively supporting the development and promotion of good practice by government agencies when engaging with or funding the sector, for example through the ‘good practice in action’ seminar series.
• promoting generosity - the giving of time and money - such as working with Volunteering New Zealand to help promote International Volunteer Day and Volunteer Awareness Week, and with Inland Revenue to inform people about payroll giving.

  Some key facts about ''https://web.archive.org/web/20090403130850/http://www.ocvs.govt.nz/work-programme/building-knowledge/subsector-facts.html New Zealand’s non-profit sector: ''

• It has more than 97,000 non-profit organisations.
• New Zealand’s non-profit sector contributes 2.6% to GDP.
• This increases to $6.95 billion when taking into account the volunteer labour contribution.
• The sector contains more than 1.2 million volunteers who give more than 270 million hours of unpaid labour to the sector.
• Non-profits have over 105,000 paid employees – but only 10% of all non-profit organisations employ paid staff.

  Publications and resources

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• ' is produced eight times a year
• ' measuring the giving of time, money and goods
• ' – Legal Responsibilities of Voluntary Organisations
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• ' - Māori perspectives on volunteering and cultural obligations
• ' – Resources for Community and Voluntary Organisations
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• ' – Joining Together on a Shared Journey: Report of the Community-Government Relationship Steering Group
• : Summary Report of the Community and Voluntary Sector Working Party