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Delivering true social impact at a local or regional level requires a solid understanding of the local environment, and people. It’s important to engage the community, develop a common vision and design the project process, outcomes and deliverables to ensure your investment for the best impact.

As an experienced impact project lead, I have award winning experience and can support a local or regional rollout of private or publicly-funded initiatives. We know how to bring together a range of stakeholders to work together for a common purpose.

If you’re looking for support to deliver a measurable, positive change through a fund-ready initiative or program, I would love to talk.

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Community. Education. Wellbeing. Equity. The environment.

These things matter to you. You want to make a meaningful difference for the people, communities and causes you care about, and you’re ready to play your part in building a stronger, healthier, more sustainable world.

You also know that real, lasting change takes time. You want to put your energy, your passion, and your investment into creating a meaningful impact, over the long term.

Our Services

We can help with:

Capacity Building

Supporting community organisations to strengthen their capacity for governance, strategy and performance evaluation.

Stakeholder Engagement

Work with and foster relationships between key local stakeholders, ensuring the project has local buy-in and will be well received.

Reporting

Establish reporting framework, audience, and frequency, manage project reporting and provide evidence at every stage that the project is delivering value and making a difference.

Project Management

Roll out the project and keep it moving towards key milestones, so we can deliver on time and on budget.

Design for Impact

Design, adapt and scope your project processes, outcomes and deliverables, to ensure they meet the needs of the intended community, and that the people who benefit are the ones who need it most.

Deliver Results

We bring a commercial lens to your public project. We offer professional, strategic and timely leadership, with a proven track record of delivering great outcomes on time and on budget.

Some of the organisations we're proud to have worked with

A Collection Of Favourite Impact Projects

Impact Matters oversaw a range of projects dedicated to enhancing educational and social outcomes across Tairāwhiti. A significant part of my role involved bringing together community groups, educators, iwi, local and national agencies, and business and charitable trusts, to work together for common goals.

Connected Whānau

A collaboration with the HB Williams Family Trusts and Manaiakalani Education Trust to provide the children of Tairāwhiti with equitable access to the affordances of digital technologies for learning.

Key Facts:

This project involved bringing together a cluster of 16 schools over six years, to increase teachers' digital capabilities and confidence, enhance digital infrastructure in schools and deliver affordable, robust devices to families across the region.

Bikes In Schools Tairāwhiti

In my role as program manager with Connext Trust, we managed the program design and implementation of the largest-scale roll-out of the Bikes in Schools programme in New Zealand.

Key Facts:

This project delivered significant cycling infrastructure (kilometres of bike tracks, bikes, helmets, secure storage and cycle education) to more than 15 schools and kura across the region to encourage and enable more young people to bike more often.

House Of Science Tairāwhiti

A collaboration between the Connext Trust, House of Science New Zealand, and local schools, to foster scientific literacy in young people across Tairāwhiti.

Key Facts:

This project involved completing due diligence, designing a sustainable business model, securing seed funding to enable start-up, stakeholder management and oversight of the local operation. The result was the Tairāwhiti branch of the House of Science which provided quality scientific resources and professional development for teachers, to promote positive engagement with science and offer r visible, hands-on learning experiences to spark an interest in science.

What our clients say

"I admire Jo’s ability to manage and/or influence the many different people and organisations involved......"

“I admire Jo’s ability to manage and/or influence the many different people and organisations involved.  This is a valuable skill and I think the ongoing successful roll-out is clear confirmation of her abilities in this area.”

"...She has taken the time to invest in our relationship and in a joint problem-solving approach..."

“Jo has a broad skillset to draw on for this work.  This includes sound project and programme management, an accessible communication style and a preparedness to pick up the phone when she needs to sort out a current or impending issue.  The latter is only possible because she has taken the time to invest in our relationship and in a joint problem-solving approach.”

"Her relationship skills mean that we have been able to build an open, constructive and positive partnership...."

“Her relationship skills mean that we have been able to build an open, constructive and positive partnership where we can be confident of the other’s commitment.  At every level she has been a pleasure to work with.”

If you're looking to deliver measurable, positive impact, let's talk.

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