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Department of Internal Affairs
Practice Lead Outcomes

Helping lead strategic change for Aotearoa's largest community grant funder.

The Gift Trust
Trustee

Donor Advised Fund facilitating philanthropic giving, with $16m under management.

Fundsorter
Co-Founder

A helpful robot that makes it easy to find and apply for grant funding. Tell Fundsorter about your kaupapa and it will find matching grants and write the application for you.

Share Collective
Board Member

Enabling founders and investors to donate equity to charity. When kiwi businesses succeed, community should benefit, too.

Gift Collective
Co-Founder

Charity fundholding service enabling unincorporated initiatives to operate and receive funding under our umbrella.

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Edmund Hilary Fellow

Innovators, entrepreneurs and investors with a vision of Aotearoa inspiring global leadership and solutions for future generations.

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Post Growth Institute Fellow
 

Researchers, thought leaders, activists, artists, and entrepreneurs working in post-capitalist fields and alternative approaches beyond economic growth. 

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Tauiwi Tautoko
volunteer

 

Evidence-based course and community that trains and supports  tauiwi to counter anti-Māori racism and be allies as tangata tiriti.

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The Wellbeing Protocol
advisor

 

A participatory grantmaking tool that allows community groups to democratically allocate grant funding towards their self determined goals

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Re-imagining fiscal sponsorship and online fundraising for the digital age, Open Collective enables a new type of transparent, collaborative organisation.

I held multiple roles in this network of entities (2017-2023).

Executive Director, Open Collective Foundation

Fiscal sponsor to hundreds of education, social impact, and civic participation initiatives in the US.

Founder, Open Collective NZ

Fund-holder for positive impact projects in Aotearoa New Zealand, enabling kiwi projects to operate without needing to incorporate.


Executive Director, Open Source Collective

Fiscal sponsor to thousands of open source software projects and related communities worldwide.

Chief Operating Officer, Open Collective Inc

Open Collective makes the open source software platform that fiscal hosts use to provide services to Collectives.

Enspiral, Co-founder (2011-2016)

Community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers who root their professional livelihoods in social impact, creating startup companies, innovative processes, and tools for collaborative organising.

Loomio, Co-founder (2012-2016)
 

Online app for collaborative decision-making now used by groups around the world. Worker-owned cooperative social enterprise tech startup from a team of technologists, facilitators, and activists.  

Enspiral, Co-founder (2011-2016)

Community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers who root their professional livelihoods in social impact, creating startup companies, innovative processes, and tools for collaborative organising.

Loomio, Co-founder (2012-2016)
 

Online app for collaborative decision-making now used by groups around the world. Worker-owned cooperative social enterprise tech startup from a team of technologists, facilitators, and activists.  

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Dark Crystal, Co-founder, 2018
 

Back up your secrets using the trust in your social network, with a fully P2P decentralised app. Our first step in a bigger vision to make crypto and cypherspace more accessible to diverse people.

YWCA, Executive Officer, 2017
 

The YWCA empowers women, especially young women. I led national operations: funding, facilitating strategy, financial systems, reducing costs, and a complete website and communications refresh.

EHF Advisor & Selections, 2017-18

Bringing together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and startup teams, to create positive global impact from New Zealand.

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Collaborative funding tool that enables purpose-driven crowds to pool money and make decisions about how to spend it. Turns ideas into reality through collaborating with money.

Co-founder
International conference bringing people from technology, business, government, education, and civil society together to create a more open world. Applying principles of open source to all sectors.

Co-founder
Social lab for youth mental health and wellbeing, creating a flourishing society with technology, entrepreneurship, and community. Partnership of Enspiral and the Ministry of Social Development.

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