http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.communityinsights.org.nz en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:20:22 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/161441/state-of-the-nation-2026/ Every February for the past 19 years, The Salvation Army's Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit has released a State of the Nation report painting an independent picture of the wellbeing of the most vulnerable in our community. It provides a deep dive into a comprehensive set of indicators - not focused on GDP and house prices, but on how our country is performing in areas of social wellbeing. Our CE, Liz Davies, and I attended the Tauranga launch last week.The report focuses... Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post161441 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/147271/tracking-the-real-cost-of-food-locally/ As the cost of living continues to rise, many local families are feeling the pinch at the checkout. In response, SociaLink through its Community Insights division has taken matters into its own hands—keeping a close watch on grocery prices through a Local Grocery Shop project. The project was initially funded thanks to BayTrust Toolbox funding. Each month, a Community Insights mystery shopper "virtually buys" the same set of essential grocery items from seven supermarkets across Taur... Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post147271 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/145068/visualising-data/ In the heart of every grassroots organisation lies a passion for people and community. Whether you're running a food co-op, a local health initiative, or supporting whānau in need, chances are you're collecting a lot of valuable data—attendance numbers, service use, feedback, outcomes. But how do you make sense of it all without getting lost in spreadsheets?That’s where dashboarding comes in and tools like Tableau and Power BI make it easier than ever for small, resource-stretched teams to ... Wed, 07 May 2025 12:14:53 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post145068 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/142142/launch-of-local-user-groups/ We’re kicking off 2025 with something new – Our “Local User Groups” for not-for-profit organisations using Infoodle (a locally-based CRM specifically created for use by charities and churches) and Tableau (Data visualisation software). Why a User Group? Software providers offer all kinds of online support resources, training and online help to help you get to grips with their software. But sometimes it’s really helpful to have some local contacts, someone working in an organisation ... Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:44:19 +1300 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post142142 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/135514/homelessness-and-housing-dashboards/ The Kāinga Tupu Taskforce leads the strategic and interagency approach to addressing homelessness across the western Bay of Plenty sub-region. One of the foundational principles of the Homelessness Strategy is encouraging evidence-based interventions and data and knowledge-sharing between providers and community services. The Community Insights team contributes to this work by managing the refresh of the Taskforce’s Homelessness and Housing Data Dashboards and by producing quarterly infograph... Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post135514 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/134131/working-one-to-one-with-local-groups/ Every year the Community Insights team works one-to-one with local groups to provide support with data-related projects.  Every project is different – we help you decide what’s going to be most useful for your organisation to focus on. The diagram provided gives an overview of some of the areas we can support you with including:Working with you on your data foundations – clarifying the impact you are trying to make, what’s the most useful data to collect/track linked to th... Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post134131 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/131792/data-spotlight-crime/ There has  been lots of recent commentary about increasing crime within our communities. What’s the reality?  The Ministry of Justice runs an annual survey – The NZ Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS), interviewing 8000 New Zealanders every year, about their experience of crime.   The Community Insights’ Data Resources pages have a link to all of the last five years of  NZCVS results under our Safety and Harm theme.  On this page we also have links... Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:03:46 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post131792 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/132114/census-2023-data/ The first data from Census 2023 was released at the end of May. Did you know Tauranga’s population has grown by 11.5% since the last census in 2018 (with the population now reaching 152,844)? This makes Tauranga New Zealand’s fastest growing main centre over that 5 year period. The Western Bay of Plenty district council area now has a population of 56,184 (an increase of 10.4% on 2018).  Tauranga can no longer simply be seen as a retirement centre, with our largest age co... Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post132114 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/128706/new-data-resources-templates/ Over the past twelve months the Community Insights team have developed a range of new data  resources to make life easier for community organisations. These resources are now available as templates and guidelines  on a new Data Resources & Templates page on the Community Insights Website.  Guidelines are a step-by-step guide to creating and using good data and the Excel and Canva templates have been created to help get you started.We currently have data resources cov... Wed, 22 May 2024 15:20:29 +1200 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post128706 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/post/116337/ci-local-infographics/ Community Insights (CI) has now been fully operational for three years. Over this time CI has been actively working to grow the confidence and skills of organisations across the WBOP community and social sector, to access and use data to improve practice and help deliver better outcomes to meet community needs.One of the ways we do this is by making available useful data resources of relevance to the sector. In 2022 we released our first sets of themed interactive data dashboards (Child and Yout... Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.communityinsights.org.nz/blog/#post116337