WORK | Alanna Space

current

Practice Lead Outcomes

Helping Aotearoa's largest community grant funder ($400m+/yr) reach the strategic outcomes of social cohesion, tino rangatiratanga, and community wellbeing.

Trustee

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

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 even write the application for you.

Board Member

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

Co-Founder

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

Advisor

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

Edmund Hilary Fellow

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

Post Growth Institute Fellow

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

Tauiwi Tautoko, volunteer

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

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.

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.

Co-founder
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.

more projects

Tauiwi Tautoko Course to learn how to counter racism online empathetically and effectively.	Facilitator's Guide What if we started from facilitation principles and worked toward understanding software? Applying key facilitation concepts in the online space.	Co-Op Handbook Co-author and instigator. Open-sourcing Loomio's processes and policies for running a co-op without bosses.
Enspiral Handbook Co-author and instigator. Open-sourced how Enspiral works, and kicked off documentation-driven leadership in the network.	Innovation Camp Facilitator. Eco-hackers took over a castle in France for six weeks to live collaboratively and make open source hardware alternatives around COP21.	Self Help Group App Advisor to a social enterprise making a digital tool for micro-finance savings pool groups in East Africa.
Open Data Coalition Advisor, consultant, facilitator.	Conference Workshopped the role of digital tools with this intersectional global movement.	Community of Practice Management Innovation Exchange 'Mix Prize' two time winner and featured speaker in New York.
Startup Accelerator Mentor and advisor to sustainability startups out to reduce carbon emissions.	Community of Practice Presented on digital facilitation tools and techniques at the 2016 AFN conference.	Symposium Creativity in France & New Zealand. Featured speaker and welcome delegation member.
Sister City Initiative Founding member and supporter.	Global Movement Advisor and supporter	Leadership Network Active member & Young Business Leaders Initiative participant in Thailand/Singapore.
Young Changemakers Conference volunteer coordinator.	Startup Accelerator Mentor and advisor to social enterprise startups.	Staff Conferences Presenter and facilitator, improving staff communication and connection between individuals, departments, and across campuses.
Conference & Events Initiator and co-organiser of a week of events catalysing the social enterprise ecosystem, including the first Social Enterprise Startup Weekend.	Conference Series Co-organiser and facilitator, with the Ministry of Women.	Advisor Founding member, Young Managers Advisory Board.
GRIT Cambodia Volunteer. Bringing education technology into schools in Phnom Penh.	Odanadi Seva Trust Volunteer. Rehabilitating children rescued from human trafficking in India, and raising funds in New Zealand.

current

Practice Lead Outcomes

Trustee

Co-Founder

Board Member

Co-Founder

Advisor

previous

more projects

Tauiwi Tautoko

Course to learn how to counter racism online empathetically and effectively.

Facilitator's Guide

What if we started from facilitation principles and worked toward understanding software? Applying key facilitation concepts in the online space.

Co-Op Handbook

Co-author and instigator. Open-sourcing Loomio's processes and policies for running a co-op without bosses.

Enspiral Handbook

Co-author and instigator. Open-sourced how Enspiral works, and kicked off documentation-driven leadership in the network.

Innovation Camp

Facilitator. Eco-hackers took over a castle in France for six weeks to live collaboratively and make open source hardware alternatives around COP21.

Self Help Group App

Advisor to a social enterprise making a digital tool for micro-finance savings pool groups in East Africa.

Open Data Coalition

Advisor, consultant, facilitator.

Conference

Workshopped the role of digital tools with this intersectional global movement.

Community of Practice

Management Innovation Exchange 'Mix Prize' two time winner and featured speaker in New York.

Startup Accelerator

Mentor and advisor to sustainability startups out to reduce carbon emissions.

Community of Practice

Presented on digital facilitation tools and techniques at the 2016 AFN conference.

Symposium

Creativity in France & New Zealand. Featured speaker and welcome delegation member.

Sister City Initiative

Founding member and supporter.

Global Movement

Advisor and supporter

Leadership Network

Active member & Young Business Leaders Initiative participant in Thailand/Singapore.

Young Changemakers

Conference volunteer coordinator.

Startup Accelerator

Mentor and advisor to social enterprise startups.

Staff Conferences

Presenter and facilitator, improving staff communication and connection between individuals, departments, and across campuses.

Conference & Events

Initiator and co-organiser of a week of events catalysing the social enterprise ecosystem, including the first Social Enterprise Startup Weekend.

Conference Series

Co-organiser and facilitator, with the Ministry of Women.

Advisor

Founding member, Young Managers Advisory Board.

GRIT Cambodia

Volunteer. Bringing education technology into schools in Phnom Penh.

Odanadi Seva Trust

Volunteer. Rehabilitating children rescued from human trafficking in India, and raising funds in New Zealand.