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Find out why your business should have an interest in your impact on your community. Then explore the community related resources to help you become a better corporate citizen.

Fact sheet showing NZ businesses work with charities and next steps if you are a business interested in working with charities. Source: Charities Commission
| Resource type: Fact Sheet | Updated:03/04/2012 |

Showcase how companies can do business while ensuring they make a positive contribution to industries and communities as well as the environment. Source: Celsias
| Resource type: Website | Updated:01/02/2011 |

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to an organisation's commitment to operating in an ethical way that takes into account profit, and people and planet. This website will help guide to to getting there. Source: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
| Resource type: Online guide | Updated:06/10/2010 |

Philanthropy New Zealand, Volunteering New Zealand and the OCVS are spearheading the Generosity Hub to explore ways to encourage individuals and businesses to participate in their communities and local community organisations by giving time, money, in-kind donations and acts of kindness. Source: The Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (OCVS)
| Resource type: Project | Updated:05/10/2010 |

If you are an experienced business person who understands the challenges faced by small business and you want to give something back to the small business economy of New Zealand through sharing your business knowledge and experience, then you should consider mentoring through Business Mentors New Zealand. Source: Business Mentors NZ
| Resource type: Website | Updated:06/05/2010 |

NZBCSD members and other businesses are encouraged to participate in fostering business and school partnerships through initiatives that match their resources with the needs of individual schools. Source: NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development
| Resource type: Guide | Updated:22/03/2010 |

Enviroschools is a huge network of people working in hundreds of schools and organisations nationwide working together to create healthy and viable schools communities and eco systems. This website lets you know everything there is to know about Enviroschools Source: Enviroschools
| Resource type: Video, Links | Updated:18/03/2010 |

New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisation. (NZFVWO) Source: NZFVWO
| Resource type: Downloads, forms, reports |

Corporate Citizens, holds details of New Zealand businesses that are committed to building relationships with community and voluntary organisations. The Funding Information Service is an organisation collecting and distributing information about community funding through three databases: FundView, BreakOut and CorporateCitizens. Source: Funding Information Service
| Resource type: Database |

New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development (NZBCSD) perspective on social responsibility. Source: NZBCSD
| Resource type: Links, Case Studies |

Offer a service available to every person in the workplace, quiet counsel and confidential assistance, which help individuals discover and employ their power to survive crises, conquer challenges and to achieve goals. Source: Workplace Support
| Resource type: Service | Updated:09/12/2011 |

Information about Kiwi Saver Source: Sorted
| Resource type: Website | Updated:06/05/2010 |

Guide to help you identify how you can improve Source: Department of Labour
| Updated:06/05/2010 |

Media report on how to get staff to be more productive Source: NZ Herald
| Resource type: Media article | Updated:08/04/2010 |

Work-Life Balance section of the DOL website. Source: Department of Labour
| Resource type: Case Studies |

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An organisation that businesses donate 1% of their revenue to, and chose which environmental cause they want to contribute to. Source: 1% For the Planet
| Resource type: Cause | Updated:01/06/2011 |

Application of Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) Principles, with a Biodiversity Focus, for New Zealand Developers and Homeowners. Source: NZ
| Resource type: Manual | Updated:31/05/2010 |

The GreenPages project is a collaborative effort by people involved in different groups in the New Zealand environment movement. This includes Greenpeace, Native Forest Action, DoC, Environment Centres. Source: Greenpages
| Resource type: directory | Updated:06/05/2010 |

QEII Trust helps private landowners in New Zealand to protect significant natural and cultural features on their land through open space covenants in perpetuity. Source: QEII National Trust
| Resource type: Website | Updated:06/05/2010 |

Founded in 1980, the NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust is New Zealand's leading organisation involved in forest restoration. Since then, the Trust has acquired land at the rate of 250ha a year to protect important species, restore their habitats and to improve the quality of our waterways. It now has 25 reserves throughout the North Island with a total of nearly 6,000ha of protected native forests. Source: NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust
| Resource type: Website | Updated:06/05/2010 |

Formed in 1923, Forest & Bird has about 40,000 members in 50 branches that work on a variety of conservation activities, from re-forestation to lobbying, bird monitoring to weed-busting. Source: Forest and Bird
| Resource type: Website | Updated:06/05/2010 |

The New Zealand National Parks and Conservation Foundation aims to challenge and enable business, private individual and visitors to contribute to the conservation estate for the benefit of all. The Foundation operates as the strategic partner to the Department of Conservation in conservation fundraising. Source: New Zealand National Parks and Conservation Foundation
| Resource type: Website of organisation | Updated:06/05/2010 |

These Plant Me Instead booklets profile the environmental weeds of greatest concern to those in your region who work and volunteer in local parks and reserves, national parks, bush remnants, wetlands and coastal areas. Suggestions are given for locally-sold non-weedy species, both native and non-native, that can be used to replace these weeds in your garden. Source: Weedbusters
| Resource type: Guide | Southland Specific resourceSouthland Specific |

These factsheets give advice on what to plant in order to attract native birds into your garden and the months of the year when New Zealand plants provide food for native birds. Source: Department of Conservation
| Resource type: Guides | Updated:22/03/2010 |

Southland Ecological Restoration Network (SERN) A network of Southland Community Conservation projects. Source: Southland District Council DOC ICC ES
| Resource type: Website with links and maps | Southland Specific resourceSouthland Specific |

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Video in which Ruben Anderson, Communications Specialist for Metro Vancouver, addresses and debunks the top ten myths of behaviour change at the RCBC's 2011 Annual Conference. Source: RCBC's 2011 Annual Conference
| Resource type: Video | Updated:16/05/2012 |

A new feature has been added to the Network website that allows Network members to select up to 20 plant species and automatically create a full colour, fully illustrated A4 book describing them (in PDF format). Source: NZ Plant Conservation Network
| Resource type: Tool | Updated:02/04/2012 |

The book is based on the latest research in psychology and is jam packed with action strategies. It offers new ways to think about how people interact in social settings, why we are tempted to stick with what we know, and how the same characteristics that currently keep us hooked into unsustainable practices can be used to move us forward. Source: Niki Harre
| Resource type: Book | Updated:14/02/2012 |

Programme using sporting ambassadors to motivate sports clubs and teams within workplaces to reduce their footprint. Source: Project Litefoot
| Resource type: Monitoring programme | Updated:14/02/2012 |

Free newsletter for people interested in behaviour change for sustainability. Source: Awake
| Resource type: Newsletter | Updated:06/10/2010 |

The Habitable Planet was designed for teachers, educators, and adult learners with a science background who want to learn more about current issues in environmental science. Water, energy, waste, pollution.... Source: Annenburg Media
| Resource type: Teaching resources | Updated:05/10/2010 |

Online social network that aims to teach children about a greener, less purchase-driven future. Source: Minos
| Resource type: Social Network | Updated:26/07/2010 |

Details on the Sustainable Living Programme. Links to different councils who are involved in the programme information on courses avaliable. Source: Sustainable Living New Zealand
| Resource type: Links and pdf downloads | Updated:23/07/2010 |

These care codes provide advice about ways you can help to ensure our natural environment remains pristine, our historic relics are preserved, and our cultural values respected. It is important to also respect the rights of other people for quiet enjoyment of the outdoors when undertaking activities. Source:
| Updated:18/06/2010 |

New Zealand is a beautiful country. Help keep our towns, cities, parks, beaches and native bush free from pollution and waste. Please also respect our unique flora and fauna. Be active and get involved in caring for the environment. It is everyone’s responsibility. Here are some tips on how to be eco-wise and leave gentle footprints when travelling in New Zealand Source:
| Updated:18/06/2010 |

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Neighbourhood Disputes Information Sheet Source: The Law Foundation NZ
| Resource type: Information sheet (PDF) | 390 KB |

Updates on Our Way Southland, a joint council community consultation process. Source: Southland Councils
| Southland Specific resourceSouthland Specific |

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