Stocked with tools, templates, and guides
Just like a toolshed stores the essentials for tending a thriving garden, this is where you’ll find the practical tools to grow, adapt, and sustain your mahi. Whether you’re clarifying intent, tracking progress, or reflecting with your team, these resources are here to support you—grounded in values, shaped by practice.
These tools don’t just support your mahi—they can also help you work alongside others, align strategies, and strengthen shared impact.
📘 Toolkits
📎 Tūhono Impact Worksheets Pack Includes Worksheets 1 – 15.
📎Core Skills Toolkit A practical, easy-to-use toolkit of resources and insights to help new and small community groups or not-for-profit organisations thrive from the Centre for Social Impact.
📎Inspiring Communities’ Learning & Adapting Toolkit Helps teams reflect, learn, and improve through kaupapa-aligned approaches to evaluation and change.
📎Social Impact Toolbox A free Australian online toolbox to empower organisations to evaluate their social impact in a way that is reliable and accessible.
📎 Te Pūaha o te Ako – Learning Partnership Guide A resource to support authentic learning relationships between community and government.
📎 Monitoring Learning and Evaluation Toolkit The Toolkit has a series of eight tools, each with a different focus.
🧰 Techniques
📎Problem Trees A visual tool to help identify and analyse the root causes and effects of issues. (A YouTube tutorial is recommended)
📎Using rubrics Helps define what progress looks like across different stages—great for learning and capability building.
📎 Most Significant Change Technique A participatory method for collecting stories of change.
📎 Appreciative Inquiry A Strengths-based approach to change that works well with community values.
📍 Local links
📎Te Puhahitanga o Te Waipounamu Whānau Ora Outcomes Framework. A culturally grounded framework for tracking outcomes in whānau-centred initiatives.
📎 Community Research A searchable database of community-based research and evaluation in Aotearoa.
📎 Kaupapa Māori Research Guides Explore culturally grounded methods for defining intent and measuring change.
🌍 International links
📎 Tamarack Institute (Canada) Practical frameworks on collective impact, evaluation, and community change.
📎 Center for Theory of Change Free guides and tools for developing and using theory of change
📎 FSG Tools for Strategic Evaluation Resources focused on equity-centred evaluation and systems change