Looking for guidance and support with your business resilience and continuity planning? Our partners from the HTK Group are facilitating workshops in both Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Matau-a-Māui. These workshops include refreshments, kai and networking opportunities with other Pakihi Māori. Workshops in: Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland are being held across the city between 8 to 15 [...]
ANZ invites Māori business owners, start-ups and SMEs to their third webinar called ‘Kia Whai Rawa - How to make a profit and maintain cash flow’. Running a successful business is about managing your pūtea well. This workshop will help show you how to generate sustainable profits over the long term, while keeping the cash [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On 1 June, and in partnership with Waikato Tainui, Amotai, and Te Hūmeka Waikato Māori Business Network, we reconnected kānohi-ki-te-kānohi over kōrero and kai with dozens of Waikato-based Māori businesses and Māori Service Providers. The event included a great line up of speakers including Kim Hill of Stratigi, Te Waka - Waikato Economic Development Agency, Waikato Tainui, Amotai as [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
