Increasing demands on publicly funded healthcare systems have led to calls for reform and improved performance especially in primary healthcare, where early detection and treatment of disease along with the promotion of healthy lifestyles, should lead to improve social and economic outcomes...

Policy reforms to primary health care delivery in New Zealand required government-funded firms overseeing care delivery to be constituted as nonprofit entities with governance shared between consumer and producers. This paper examines the consumer and producer interests in the allocation of...

This reports the first New Zealand nationwide survey of more than 800 volunteer managers. It found that the greatest challenge these managers face is the recruitment of volunteers. This is followed by not having enough time or money to achieve goals, and matching and retaining volunteers....

Internationally, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries instigating charity regulation. While the Charity Commission for England and Wales was established by the Charitable Trusts Acts of 1853, since 2005 the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Charity Commission for...

Funding and financial management are critical issues for the not-for-profit sector. Funding is limited, competitively sought, and differences in funders' and organisations' expectations and needs can cause dysfunction. Sport is an important segment of the not-for-profit sector in New Zealand...