The Māori Economy: Part 5 – surviving COVID-19

2022-06-10T13:09:48+12:00June 10th, 2022|Business, Digital, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

Newsroom created a six-part video series on the Māori economy – stories looking at the Māori economy, now a $70 billion sector. This documentary takes a look into how the Māori Economy works, what drives it and makes it and the businesses that operate within it. The series is presented by Māori business analyst Joshua [...]

Ka Hao Business Profile – Hei Reo Awhi Rito

2022-06-10T13:10:09+12:00June 10th, 2022|Business, Digital, Education, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

Poutama is supporting The Ka Hao I te Ao programme – an e-commerce training programme offered to Māori business owners. Poutama is offerring a $10k grant to the business that excels in the programme.  This funding is to be used to purchase products/services that will help take the business to another level. Last year, several [...]

Digital Facilitation Scheme

2022-05-26T11:45:12+12:00May 26th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science, Sport|

Māori service providers are sought to help facilitate the delivery of the scheme at a regional level. The support via this scheme will then be made available to all small businesses to access.  This support is to help businesses adopt and effectively use the Digital Boost platform to progress their business digitalisation hīkoi/journey. Suitable Māori [...]

Ka Ora Ka Puawai – Survive & Thrive Workshops for Māori businesses

2022-06-22T07:56:27+12:00May 26th, 2022|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Export, Fashion, Honey, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science, Sport, Tourism|

The EMA (Employers & Manufacturers Association) is also helping to deliver 3 more, one-hour online workshops into Māori businesses based in Tāmaki Makaurau during the last week of June 2022. The online workshops are FREE and designed to help business owners, executives, and managers be great employers and people leaders during times of business uncertainty. [...]

Poutama Tangata – Free Online HR Group Coaching Session – 15 June 2022

2022-06-10T13:09:30+12:00May 26th, 2022|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Export, Fashion, Honey, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science, Sport, Tourism|

The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association) and Poutama continue to deliver the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme to small & medium sized Māori businesses across Aotearoa. The programme has an open door policy where you can join at any time.  It is best suited to business owners, managers, and staff responsible for workplace contracts, [...]

Budget 2022

2022-05-26T11:45:51+12:00May 26th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle|

Last week’s budget announcements, saw more than $1 billion in budget commitments made towards Māori development initiatives. These commitments cover several areas, including: whānau, wāhine & rangatahi resilience, media, whenua, protection of mātauranga Māori and taonga, support for Māori arts as well as cadetships and progressive procurement.  A useful summary covering these specific initiative, budget [...]

The Māori Economy – Part 4

2022-05-26T11:46:06+12:00May 26th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle|

In February, Newsroom began a six-part video series on the Māori economy – a series of video stories looking at the Māori economy, now a $70 billion sector. This documentary takes a look into how the Māori Economy works, what drives it and makes it – and the businesses that operate within it. The series [...]

Ka Hao Business Profile – Free to Fly

2022-05-26T11:46:19+12:00May 25th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

Poutama is supporting The Ka Hao I te Ao programme – an e-commerce training programme offered to Māori business owners. Poutama is offerring a $10k grant to the business that excels in the programme.  This funding is to be used to purchase products/services that will help take the business to another level. Last year, several [...]

SheEO – Venture applications open now

2022-05-10T21:18:27+12:00May 10th, 2022|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Export, Fashion, Honey, Investment, Lifestyle|

Applications to become a SheEO Venture opened on 10 May. Are you tackling the World’s To-Do List?  You don’t have to do it alone. SheEO Venture applications are open once a year — and in Australia and New Zealand, they are now open until 10 June! As a selected Venture you’ll receive support, connections from [...]

Poutama Tangata – Free Online HR Group Coaching Session – 18 May 2022

2022-05-10T21:18:58+12:00May 10th, 2022|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Export, Fashion, Honey, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science, Sport, Tourism|

The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association) and Poutama continues to deliver the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme to small & medium sized Māori businesses across Aotearoa. This HR coaching programme has an open door policy where businesses can join at any time.  It is suited to business owners, managers, and staff responsible for: workplace [...]

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