"We want to create a way of working as a whole community, agencies and us together, that creates hope and optimism"
Georgie Thompson, Ruapotaka Marae, Tamaki

At the heart of Inspiring Communities Networks is a small Exchange team

The Exchange exists to build and spread the "know-how" of place-based, collaborative community-led development, and to provide more leverage than is possible from disparate and unconnected local initiatives, through:

  • Learning from experience
  • Advising
  • Community leadership development
  • Promoting and advocacy
  • Bringing unlikely people together and developing the 'strength of loose ties'

For more about us and what we do, you can:

The Exchange is the engine room that:

  • Supports a national network of people and places actively involved in practising and learning about community-led development - the Core Learning Cluster
  • Supports the development of regional learning networks of people, initiatives, organisations and places wanting to share experiences, strengthen community-led development ways of working and enhance community resilience
  • Inspires and supports development of local leaders and leadership styles that foster community-led development
  • Develops tools, processes, case studies and identifies lessons learned
  • Communicates about community-led development through the newsletter, website and advisory services
  • Provides focused community-led development expertise in selected communities for specific purposes
  • Builds cross sector understanding and connections over practical community-led development initiatives
  • Connects and learns from developments in New Zealand and internationally, distils and shares information
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