by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
As part of the follow-up to the 2016 TacklingPovertyNZ workshop tour, we will be posting one blog a day over the next few weeks to accompany the workshop speaker videos published on our YouTube channel. Watch Jess Jacobs, single mother and volunteer helping the...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
At the TacklingPovertyNZ Gisborne workshop held on 31 August 2016, participants discussed challenges and opportunities in the local area. Six key themes and groups emerged: working families/working poor, gangs and drug users, children under 12, mental health, elderly,...
by admin | Sep 2, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
The fourth one-day workshop of the McGuinness Institute’s TacklingPovertyNZ national tour was held in Gisborne/Tairāwhiti on 31 August 2016 at Waikanae Surf Lifesaving Club. The workshop was opened by Gisborne District Council Mayor Meng Foon. In the morning, seven of...
by admin | Mar 31, 2014 | Project TalentNZ
Wendy McGuinness and Dr Patrick Nolan, Principal Advisor to the Economics and Research team at the New Zealand Productivity Commission, visited Gisborne on Tuesday 25 March as part of the East Coast stretch of the TalentNZ Tour. The ideas of the TalentNZ project were...
