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| Abbie Reynolds Abbie Reynolds is Vodafone’s head of Sustainability & Foundation. She arrived at this career having first spent time as a lawyer and then working in telecommunications regulation here and overseas. She has held corporate responsibility and sustainability roles at Telecom, Auckland Council and now Vodafone. Abbie is passionate about helping business think about how to do the right thing and use it to deliver value. | |
| Alison Taylor Dr Alison Tayor is head of the ASB Community Trust’s Centre for Social Impact. She was appointed to head the Centre after joining the Trust to lead the development of its high- engagement funding programmes and capacity-support programme. The Centre was founded to support innovative responses to complex social issues and to work collaboratively with community organisations to support the design and development of effective social change programmes. Alison is also a Trustee of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation and has held a number of senior public health and social sector leadership roles in the UK and New Zealand. | |
| Anna Guenther Anna Guenther is co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding organisation PledgeMe. She grew up between New Zealand and Boston, and travelled the world before settling down in Wellington. She co-founded PledgeMe in 2011 during her Masters of Entrepreneurship at Otago University, after she had to pick a topic for a thesis which was to do everything but start a business. PledgeMe has now raised almost $3million from over 38,000 pledgers. | |
| Anne Rodda Anne has a background in the cultural sector and is a sought after senior arts leader in New Zealand. Alongside her role as Executive Officer of the Cognition Education Trust, she is also the Executive Director and developer of the iconic Michael Hill International Violin Competition. Anne has served as General Manager of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival and NZ Sculpture OnShore. She consults on a variety of not-for-profit projects, regularly assesses grant applications, is a member of the NZ Institute of Directors and the Project Management Institute and lectures in arts management. | |
| 0 | Bryan Ivamy Bryan Ivamy is National Relationship and Training Manager for Perpetual Guardian. He has worked in the trustee industry for 30 years. During this time, he has acquired a wealth of experience dealing in both estate management and planning and through this experience is able to offer practical personalised solutions for his clients. Bryan is a member of the Estate and Tax Planning Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Trust Special Interest group. |
| David Cowley David Cowley is grants manager with the WEL Energy Trust. He has been working in and around Hamilton since the late 70s, initially in social work, youth work and community development. In 1997 he became involved in contract work for various government departments and community organisations, undertaking research, development, project management and other consultancy work. This included managing national contracts to deliver training, mentoring and coaching in the social services sector. He first joined WEL Energy Trust as a grants assessor in 2007. He has been grants manager since July 2014. | |
| Dellwyn Stuart Dellwyn has been with Cure Kids since 2013 and leads both the private and public fundraising teams. She has more than twenty years experience in corporate roles leading brand and communications functions. She was previously the Executive Director of a private charitable foundation and sat on the Philanthropy New Zealand Board. | |
| Gary Diprose Gary Diprose is founder and CEO of Springboard Community Works, a Snells Beach-based not-for-profit organisation that works with at-risk families and youth through alternative education programmes. Before setting up Springboard Gary spent 10 years in business management, running 300 cows and managing 50/50 share-milking in the dairy industry, and four years self-employed in fencing. Gary oversees all of the Springboard staff, programmes, and organisational development - including expansion into new communities. Gary is Springboard’s visionary, driven by a passionate desire to assist people on the margins of society, inspiring staff and volunteers to work toward community regeneration. | |
| Hilary Sumpter Hilary Sumpter is chief executive of the Auckland Communities Foundation. She is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of the organisation and for ensuring that it is effectively positioned to achieve projected growth in the context of the strategic plan. Hilary previously worked as CEO of YWCA Auckland and as director of the Arts Promotion Trust in Northland, where she was responsible for strengthening the sector and supporting economic development for the region through the creative industries. She is a board member of Community Foundations of New Zealand and the Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand, a trustee of Leadership NZ, and an independent director of Akarana Rugby league. | |
| Jo Garner Jo Garner is owner and manager of Strategic Grants, which helps Australian and New Zealand nonprofit organisations establish sustainable, cost-effective grant-seeking strategies to deliver projects that fulfil their organisational missions. Jo loves helping non-profits to win grants and deliver vital community projects. She has worked with dozens of charities across Australia to help raise millions of dollars in both philanthropic and government grant funding, and recently expanded her company’s activities to New Zealand. Her own experience as a fundraiser has helped her identify the key areas where non-profits need assistance and advice when establishing, reviewing and building an effective grants programme. | |
| Jonny Gritt Jonny Gritt is chief executive of WaterSafe Auckland and a Philanthropy New Zealand board member. He was previously General Manager (Grants and Marketing) at the Lion Foundation. Jonny has worked on both sides of the not-for-profit sector, as both a funder and a grantseeker. After 10 years in the British army he moved into the international training and education arena. Among the organisations he worked for was SkillForce, a UK charity that works in schools, drawing on the skills of ex-Forces personnel to inspire young people to succeed. In New Zealand, he supported hundreds of community groups through his work with the Lion Foundation. As well as working with WaterSafe Auckland Jonny provides advice and support to other not-for-profits when time permits. | |
| Kate Frykberg Kate Frykberg is Executive Director of the Todd Foundation, a family foundation established in 1972 focusing on funding for children, young people, their families and their communities. She is also chair of Philanthropy New Zealand. She is active in philanthropy in her personal life, having established the Thinktank Charitable Trust in 2003 after the sale of the Internet development company she and her husband co-founded. Kate’s background includes a degree in English Literature and 20 years in the IT industry and business management; during this time she received a royal honour (the NZ Order of Merit) for services to business and the community and won the ASB Business Woman of the Year award. | |
| Kate McKegg Kate McKegg is one of four evaluation consultants at the Kinnect Group in Auckland. She has specialist skills in policy and programme evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, teaching, training and facilitation. Over the last 15 years Kate has applied these skills in many sectors, including education, health, social development, Māori development, sport, broadcasting, employment and housing. Her work spans a wide range of roles: mentoring and training staff to conduct research and evaluation; delivering evaluation training and workshops to policy and community organisations; developing evaluative systems and frameworks. She is also highly skilled at facilitating strategic capacity building to monitor and evaluate organisational performance and outcomes. | |
| Kate Tindall Kate Tindall is the Donations and Communications Advisor at The Tindall Foundation and a Tindall family member. She first started working at The Tindall Foundation in 2006 doing administration work and found that she really enjoyed the art of giving. Kate spent two years in London in 2009 and 2010, where she interned at the Trust for London and completed a post-graduate certificate in grantmaking, philanthropy and social investment at City University London. She returned to The Tindall Foundation in 2012. As well as working with the donations team she also co-manages the website and social media and helps produce the annual report. | |
| 0 | Kirsten Taylor Kirsten Taylor is Philanthropy Services Manager for Perpetual Guardian. She has extensive experience in providing trustee services in both the private and corporate trustee domain in New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong. In her current role she applies her trustee experience to ensure that Perpetual Guardianremains relevant to the philanthropists and philanthropic organisations of tomorrow. She does this by using New Zealand and global intellectual capital in philanthropy in order to help create lasting legacies, investment management solutions in perpetuity and ensuring a well-tested process of effective governance and giving. |
| Lani Evans Lani Evans is chief executive of Thankyou Payroll, a social business that provides free payroll intermediary services to businesses and charities all over New Zealand and donates 25 cents per person, per pay to community organisations. Lani is also a trustee for the Malcam Charitable Trust and co-chair of the West Harbour Beautification Trust. She has a background in documentary making, and a long history of working in the not-for-profit sector in both New Zealand and Australia. She is also an adventurer whose achievements include walking the length of the South Island – over 21 mountain passes – in 84 days, and kayaking to, and climbing, four remote sea pillars on the Tasmanian coast in one day. | |
| Liz Gibbs Liz joined Philanthropy New Zealand as Chief Executive in January 2013. She was previously chief executive at Save the Children New Zealand where she led a significant expansion of services, revenue and profitability. She also chaired the Every Child Counts Coalition, a group of child-focused organisations including Plunket, Barnardos, Unicef and Ririki. Liz has wide-ranging experience in marketing, fundraising, advocacy and government relations, as well as a keen interest in social enterprise and social finance. Her interests include competing “rather too slowly for my liking” in duathalons. | |
| Lynne Le Gros Lynne Le Gros is the General Manager of the Spark Foundation (previously the Telecom Foundation), a corporate foundation that owns and runs the crowdfunding platform Givealittle. The Foundation also partners with the Manaiakalani Education Trust, supporting its digital teaching and learning programme to improve learning outcomes within low-decile schools. Lynne is a very experienced marketer and a long time Spark employee and a firm believer in contributing to the community in which she lives. She is a regular volunteer at the Auckland City Mission Drop-in Centre and in doing so has built a hands-on appreciation of the charitable sector. | |
| Mae Hong (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, US) Mae Hong is a director at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is based in Chicago and is responsible for building RPA’s presence in serving individual donors, foundations and corporations throughout the Midwest. She was previously programme director at the Field Foundation of Illinois. Her funding expertise includes children, youth and families; poverty alleviation; women and girls' issues; and advocacy. She has also been actively involved in RPA’s leadership on the issue of diversity in philanthropy. She currently serves on the board of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Daystar Center. | |
| Peter Hero (Hero Group, US) Peter Hero is the founder of the US-based Hero Group, a global consulting firm which works to build greater philanthropic assets for maximum social impact. He was previously the CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. During his 17 years with the Foundation he built it from a small organisation with total assets of just $8M to one with $1.3B in assets that awarded more than $3M in grants every week, and worked with 400 families and 25 major technology firms. According to an article in Fortune Magazine, Peter showed Silicon Valley how to give by “channeling the area's distinctive culture into an unusual brand of charity: demanding, ambitious, self-conscious, creative, even risky--everything you would expect from Silicon Valley.” | |
| Raewynne Jacobs Raewynne Jacobs is Funding Programme manager for the ASB Community Trust. She joined the Trust in October 2013, after relocating from Hawke’s Bay where she had spent the past 14 years, most recently working as Donations Assessor with Eastern and Central Community Trust. She has extensive experience working in community development with both the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry for Social Development. Raewynne has also had experience in grantmaking having spent a number of years working for the Lottery Grants Board as an Advisor and Team Leader. | |
| Robyn Moore Robyn is delivering the Volunteering New Zealand Best Practice in Action project and working closely with 12 ‘championing’ organisations who are using the Best Practice Guidelines in their day to day work. She has a Masters in Management Studies, specialising in community operations. Robyn has been volunteering pretty much all her life, starting out as a junior member of Forest and Bird. She has had terms as Chair and Secretary, with Plunket and her local Residents Association. | |
| Susan Biggs Susan Biggs is the Chief Executive Officer of Adara Development (formerly The ISIS Foundation), an Australian-based international development organisation. Adara Development was established in 1998 and now provides services to 30,000 people living in poverty in Nepal and Uganda every year. All of its projects focus on the remote delivery of health, education and community development services to local children and women. Before joining Adara, Susan was the National Policy Manager of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Director of Australia’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA). She has a long career in work and gender issues, including spending 12 years providing consultancy services to businesses wanting to establish more family friendly work practices. | |
