Point partners with changemakers who are redesigning the system to make the biggest difference for community and whānau. We use research and evaluation to expose the messiness and uncertainty of systems change work and shine a light on potential and possibilities.
We know that creating change isn’t easy, but it is possible.
This Rheumatic Fever co-design initiative was facilitated by a team who held Samoan cultural and social capital as well as extensive professional skills and expertise. Point was lucky enough to be invited along for the ride.
Point are currently assisting the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand to evaluate the ABCpro digital telehealth nurse service for advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients.
Point have been working with the Ford Foundation since June 2021 to visually represent the complex thinking behind the Foundation’s program strategies so they can be easily understood by a wide audience.
Point and Associates evaluated the Writers in Schools programme drawing on feedback from students, authors and illustrators and school staff including teachers, librarians and principals.
Policies for children need to be accessible to children. One of our Point families, the DubP whanau, believes this so strongly that they redesigned the Scouts Child Safeguarding Policy, which is now being shared with every Scouts group in Aotearoa.
Annalise Myers and Kelly Maung worked with Belong Aotearoa to understand how they have positively impacted the wellbeing of refugee and migrant women and their families.
Todd and Point have partnered to create a simple, developmental evaluation framework to help understand and evaluate their contributions to more equitable systems
Point and partner Awa Associates describe in this evaluation how SafeMan SafeFamily helps men who have used violence become safe and understand how much of a difference SafeMan SafeFamily has made for the men, their families and whanau. A copy of the draft report is available.
The arts enable us to thrive. A vibrant arts, culture, and creative sector is a vital part of community. An investment in the arts, culture, and creativity is an investment in our wellbeing. This report helps us to better understand the extent and impact of income and housing insecurity, and the level of interest in artists’ community housing and the Universal Basic Income (UBI).
This report, commissioned by the Oranga Tamariki Voices of Children and Young People's (VoCYP) team and led by Point and a community design team, centres on what takatāpui and rainbow care-experienced rangatahi want Oranga Tamariki to know about them and their experiences of care.
Research conducted by Dr. Tony O’Connor for the Green Party found that hardship and distress experienced by many students may be leading to poorer tertiary education outcomes for New Zealand’s future leaders
The Caring for children and tamariki with family and whānau care packs programme was informed by and followed on from the Storytime Foundation Lockdown care packs projects. These evaluations explain the underpinning evidence and the strategies used with the care pack projects, and provide a window into the perspectives of whānau, children, probation officers and police.
Read the latest reports from the Peter McKenzie Project to understand how the project is making a difference to whānau wellbeing, how it is impacting the causes of poverty by supporting upstream systems change work and how it has adopted a participatory model of philanthropy
In this report, Alex Woodley reports on how child-centric prison visiting has deepened whānau connections in a positive way, decreased stress for children, and created the conditions to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes.
The purpose of this report was to evaluate the Tupu Tai Pasifika Internship Programme to gauge the current status of the programme, its ability to inform future programme design, and necessary changes needed to continue to promote greater diversity in the policy space.
The Safe to talk service is for people who have been affected by sexual harm and want information, and/or support. Point tested five different campaign concepts with a diverse range of youth/rangatahi in Auckland and Northland.
Scouts Aotearoa want to better understand the benefits and impacts of the scouting movement. Point has worked with Scouts Aotearoa to develop ongoing evaluation framework enabling them to monitor progress, create a culture of continuous improvement and measure outcomes and impacts.
The Cause Collective’s Workplace Wellbeing Ecology initiative follows a four-step design phase which involves bringing together frontline staff and executive leadership to co-design innovative solutions to prevent Pacific and Māori employees being overrepresented in workplace injury statistics. Point provides evaluative support to the project.
Working alongside CFNZ, Point is surveying the people with CF, family and health professionals about their community-based support needs and what CFNZ can do to best meet those needs.
Julie Radford-Poupard and The Ministry of Youth Development - Te Manatū Whakahiato Taiohi (MYD) undertook this research to better understand Rainbow young peoples’ (16-24 year-olds) experiences of COVID-19 during alert level 3 and 4 lockdowns and the pandemic generally.
RainbowYOUTH commissioned Point to do a safety review to ensure clear processes for managing risk which align to best practice and to evidence the way the service creates positive change for young people, their whānau and the community.
The Billy Graham Foundation wants to have “national impact at the local level” and “learn as we go”. The Foundation have partnered with Point for three years to understand the impact they are having on young people and their host communities, and identify where there are opportunities for improvement so the Foundation and the academies can achieve their vision.
Peers support workers who have their own experiences of mental distress support young people to develop skills and resources to get through the tough times.
Working together, Johnson & Johnson, secondary and postsecondary schools, and community organizations develop programs that feature academic enrichment, career readiness and exploration activities, and higher education preparation.
Thirteen young people who have experience with the youth justice system in New Zealand were interviewed in July and August 2017. This report shares these young peoples’ experiences of communication, and voices their ideas about the youth justice workforce.
West Auckland-based youth agency Ranui 135 coordinates services and activities, including mentoring, leadership camps, weekly sports activities, career planning, employment pathways and a new social media project which upskills young people in event planning and management.
This research was commissioned by the Ombudsman to provide key insights into the design of new communications channels and content to support and facilitate the Children in Care complaints process.
Restorative justice is an opportunity for people who have been harmed, and those responsible for the harm, to come together talk about what happened and why, how they have been harmed. Point is working with Project Restore to evaluate their restorative justice model.
Reading for pleasure is one of the most important indicators for the future success of a child, improving literacy, learning, health and wellbeing and social outcomes. This report helps to understand the conditions that could help grow communities of readers, how to make books and reading for pleasure more accessible and how reading projects might be sustained.
Point is working alongside Take2 to help them measure the impact of a programme that teaches coding, life skills & meditation to people in prisons across Aotearoa.
We look after the disruptors.
Our role at Point is to encourage bravery and support innovation. Our work is guided by a set of principles that emphasise excellence, quality, generosity, accountability and responsive, reflective and relational practice. As a social business, we exist to create change. This means communities, not shareholders, profit from our work.
We think outside the proverbial boxes that say it can't be done. Our agile team of researchers, strategists, empathic interviewers, change mappers, data analysts, storytellers, social disruptors and design specialists bring experience and passion to support organisations big and small that want to put positive outcomes for all New Zealanders at the centre of social innovation.
What we do
Point actively supports people within the philanthropic, government, NGO and community spaces through all stages of their changemaking journeys. We do this by:
Change mapping: Theories of change, outcomes maps
Understanding and assessing need: community consultation, needs assessments
Data gathering and analysis: Literature scanning, data review, surveys, focus groups
Sense-making: Reflective practive, developmental evaluation, principles-based evaluation
Evidencing impact: Outcomes evaluation, creating evaluation frameworks
Communication for change: Data visualisation, visual reporting and messaging
As a charity the scope of work is infinite and the budget constrained. In 2018 Cystic Fibrosis commissioned Point and Associates to carry out our first major insight survey as part of the redevelopment of our strategic direction. The results helped us refocus and realign our service delivery into four key pillars of work. We found the survey and the subsequent development of the pillars to be fundamental to ensuring we were a ‘person with CF’ centred medical charity. Our most recent survey of people with CF, family and whanau in 2021 highlights that we are doing well in what is most valued and important to Kiwis with CF and the CF community. A very professional service and product.
