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Changing the Common Story around Debt: Collective and individual financial transformation in Porirua. Story
Helping people to help themselves also helps communities grow resilience, especially when many diverse members of a community work together to create new opportunities and new ways of doing… Read more
People, place, reflective practice and transformational change: Makerita’s story Story
Initiative: Good Cents Porirua.Theme: Leading in and leaderful. Download PDF Personal journeys are interwoven with the places in which we live. Context can be critical, and this is just as… Read more
Partnering and growing together: Good Cents, WINZ and course graduates. Story
Initiative: Good Cents Porirua.Theme: Working together in place Download PDF The Good Cents course is more than budgeting and offers new approaches of getting back in control of a person’s… Read more
A ‘light touch’: Good Cents enables significant change at a range of levels. Story
Initiative: Good Cents Porirua.Theme: Leading in and Leaderful Download PDF With the Good Cents course now being run from the Community Link centre in Porirua, there are now more and… Read more
Failing Forward: Good Cents skills help tackle budgeting blues. Story
Initiative: Good CentsTheme: Leading and leaderful failing_forward_good_cents_skills_help_tackle_budgeting_blues Completing a Good Cents course has had many benefits for Kay (not her real name.) A $2,000 debt with the IRD has been… Read more
Good Cents Community Pantry: Growing skills, social connections and food. Story
Initiative: Good Cents Porirua.Theme: Creating and sustaining momentum Download PDF Good Cents emerged out of conversations between women food bank clients in financial difficulty who shared their stories and found that… Read more
Good Cents Core Group: Lived diversity Story
Initiative: Good Cents Porirua. Theme: Creating and sustaining momentum Download PDF There is no disputing that bringing a diverse and committed core group together to help guide Good Cents towards… Read more
Looking for leadership in unexpected places: Good Cents course Story
Download PDFThe Good Cents course is about more than budgeting. It has been developed by two staff from Wesley Community Actions Cannons C reek office in Porirua and is specifically… Read more
Neighbourhood development – no one size fits all Story
During 2010-2011 with a sound foundation, community mandate and an experienced and respected worker in place, the Massey Ranui neighbourhood-led approach unfolded in a multitude of ways – many unexpected…. Read more
Building Neighbourhood Connections in Arch Hill Story
How the Arch Hill newsletter changed the community.