About us
The Cause Collective is a community organisation that aims to create the conditions for communities to thrive from this generation to the next.
We want to transform the way in which community and public services are experienced by individuals, families and whole communities.
We are a population-focused organisation and have an interest in the overall outcomes of Pacific peoples across Aotearoa, underserved and South Auckland communities. We work upstream to address the causes of complex problems and downstream to strengthen prevention systems. This is achieved by delivering a range of services to communities, clinical and provider networks and to our delivery partners.
We are a Pacific organisation
Our leadership approach, values, philosophies, policies, and operating procedures are reflective of Pacific cultural contexts and worldviews. The Nga Vaka o Kāiga Tapu – Pacific conceptual frameworks guide our culture and practice.
We are committed to bicultural and ambicultural practice
We recognise the importance of biculturalism and Te Tiriti in practice. Our team is comfortable in traversing diverse Māori and Pacific perspectives – to reach a shared understanding.
We work with demand-side evidence
We work to build real time data, insights, and evidence directly from the communities we work with to deeply understand complex problems.
We apply critical thinking
We apply the disciplines of critical thinking, systems thinking and the theory of constraints to identify the primary causes of complex problems.
WHAT
MAKES US
DIFFERENT
OUR FUNCTIONS
01
We think differently
We think differently about complex problems and use social innovation tools, critical thinking and cultural perspectives to get to the heart of these problems.
02
We design for experience
We accelerate the pace of change by codesigning, testing, and prototyping scalable breakthrough solutions to complex problems.
03
We backbone
We coordinate activities across system stakeholders, leaders, and partners to build momentum through a shared agenda for change, shared measurement, and evaluation systems, and by sustaining action through networks of practice.
04
We build capability
We build the capability of our labour force, our community and provider workforce, and government
agencies through targeted programmes and micro-credentialing.
05
We provide management services
We support our stakeholders through quality back-office support services, including financial management, project coordination, facilitation and administrative support, advice in quality management systems, business analytics and data management.
06
We tell stories
We tell stories that create momentum for social change and that advocate for outcomes for Pacific peoples and South Auckland communities.
