Kia ora e te whānau,
We hope you are all safe and healthy and have adjusted well to being back in your respective workplaces following end of the COVID-19 lockdown period.
The team at G.I.F.T are striving forward with its intention to broaden the engagement, reach and intention of our communications, specifically in the digital space.
We are excited to usher in this new intention with the creation of the G.I.F.T blog and this is the very first blog piece!
This blog will be regularly updated and contributed to by the G.I.F.T team and we are also opening the connection to invite all of you to contribute to it as well.
Whether you have ideas, news, suggestions, updates on the pieces of mahi you are working on in relation to Tīkapa Moana. We would love to hear from you so please don’t hesitate in contacting us for further guidance or to simply submit your content for blog post consideration.
All blog post ideas can be sent to giftmedia@foundationnorth.org.nz.
We have some amazing pieces of mahi on the horizon that you could be involved in. From your feedback we have two exciting engagement opportunities for you including our Mauri Wānanga – four online sessions.
The first two sessions will revise and extend on the mauri wananga at Orakei Marae in 2019. The second two sessions will offer practical applications working with mauri.
The dates for these sessions are:
- Monday 27th July 9am-1pm
- Monday 17th August 9am-1pm
- Wednesday 26th August 9-10.30am
- Monday 31st August 9.30-11.30am
Please note places are limited to 20 for workshops 1, 2 and 4.
The G.I.F.T. team are also excited to be facilitating a GIFT project mapping session on Wednesday July 23 from 1.30pm-3.30pm. The workshop will be an opportunity to learn about some theories of system change and to identify connections for greater collaboration and impact!
We have developed a creative example of an initial project visualisation to show specific projects are working in and the collaborations that are already happening.
These visualisations will be sent out prior to the workshop to stimulate your thinking on what connections and collaborations are going to be most useful to you and your work to scale up impact for systems change.
We are in exciting times as we strive to collaborate with all of you on key projects to enhance the sustainability of Tīkapa Moana.
Please send all blog post ideas to giftmedia@foundationnorth.org.nz, we look to working with you all more in the future!
Ngā mihi
The GIFT Team