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Tapuwae Roa releases investment playbook for Māori entrepreneurs

May 24, 2024|

For those with a venture and heading into the market for the first time, Tapuwae Roa have released its very own investment playbook to help Māori entrepreneurs. Covering everything from interpreting investor jargon to understanding the ups and downs of start-up life, Tapuwae Roa, a social impact organisation, have released its Te Ara Takatū: Pathways for Māori Entrepreneurship playbook for budding founders. For Tapuwae Roa, its goal is to pursues tikanga-led social change with the purpose of whāngaitia matua te tuakiri Māori (promoting the sustenance of Māori identity) through targeted funding, investment, and advocacy. 

Amorangi: Major Māori governance summit returns

May 9, 2024|

After its inaugural online success in 2022, Tapuwae Roa’s Māori in Governance Summit is set to return in July 2024 as a hybrid event. Recently renamed as Amorangi, the one-day summit will be held in person for the first time in Wellington as well as being live-streamed to online attendees.

Nau mai ki te hui ‘Amorangi’ – Te Puoho Katene

May 9, 2024|

Hai a Hurai ka tū ko te ‘Māori in Governance summit’ arā te huinga ‘Amorangi’ ki Te Whanaganui a tara he mea kōkiri e Tapuwae roa, i whai wāhi kōrero mātou ki te Kaihautū o Tapuwae roa ki a Te Puoho Katene kei runga ake nei te roanga ake o āna kōrero.

Gisborne youth learn device refurbishing to help families

May 3, 2024|

Tōnui Collab is training rangatahi at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga to recycle and refurbish electronic devices to save them from ending up in the rubbish. The kaupapa called RAD, Recycle a Device, is a nationwide initiative developed by Digital Future Aotearoa. It was brought to Gisborne by Tōnui Collab through partial funding from Tapuwae Roa and the Gisborne District Council.

Māori Start Ups Course Ready To Go

February 28, 2024|

Māori fisheries settlement organisation Tapuwae Roa has teamed up with Sprout Agritech and Callaghan Innovation to create a 10-week programme for Māori start-ups.

Te Pūoho Kātene | Kaihautū o Toi Tukua

February 23, 2024|

A delegation of Native American creatives is meeting with Māori artists, designers, and founders this week as part of the Toi Tukua tour; a trans-ocean partnership between Tapuwae Roa and leading U.S indigenous media platform, Native Max.

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Māori entrepreneur wānanga returns

February 7, 2024|

Continuing in its move to stoke the number of Maori start-ups in New Zealand, Tapuwae Roa has announced a new series of online and regional wananga to its 2024 Rakahinonga Roadshow. Facilitated by expert business mentors Saara Tawha (Ramaroa Ltd) and Amy Mclean (Te Kainga Wahine), the interactive one-day wananga hopes to ignite Maori rakahinonga (entrepreneurship) and provide participants with key tools and skills to progress their business ideas into reality.

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Turning Māori business aspirations into reality

January 29, 2024|

The Rakahinonga Roadshow created by Tapuwae Roa is heading to Tairāwhiti to help ignite Māori entrepreneurship. Facilitated by business mentor Saara Tawha, of Ramaroa Ltd, and Amy McLean, founder of Te Kainga Wāhine, the aims of the interactive one-day wānanga are to inspire Māori rakahinonga (entrepreneurship) and provide participants with key tools and skills to progress their business ideas into reality.

Te Pūoho Kātene | Kaihautū of Tapuwae Roa

January 24, 2024|

After a successful year with the Rakahinonga Roadshow. and an ongoing keen interest by many for another round. The team at Tapuwae Roa are wanting to keep up the work to build on Māori startups in Aotearoa, to do that Tapuwae Roa announced LAST WEEK a new series of online and regional wānanga to its 2024 Rakahinonga Roadshow.

Entrepreneur lessons given road test

January 23, 2024|

Māori economic support organisation Tapuwae Roa is taking to the road to encourage Māori business start-ups. Chief executive Te Pūoho Kātene says the Rakahinonga roadshow will be facilitated by expert business mentors Saara Tawha and Amy Mclean, who will provide participants with tools and skills to progress their business ideas into reality. Tapuwae Roa, which is funded from the Māori fisheries settlement, sees entrepreneurship as a pathway to mana motuhake.

A man of the people

January 3, 2024|

Norman Dewes, a prominent community leader in Christchurch, has died, aged 78. Norm, as he was known, was of Ngāti Kahungunu descent and grew up in Wairoa. He was 15 years old when he went to Christchurch under the Māori trade training scheme, eventually becoming a foundry worker and a unionist.

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Northland news in brief

October 25, 2023|

In a move to grow the number of Māori startups in Aotearoa, Tapuwae Roa will bring a wānanga to support rakahinonga Māori (entrepreneurs) in bringing their business ideas to life to Whangārei next month. Facilitated by experienced business mentor Saara Tawha (Ramaroa Ltd), the interactive one-day wānanga hopes to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit of participants while providing key tools and skills to progress their business ideas into reality. Structured to provide a “kick-start” in progressing rakahinonga aspirations, the workshop not only provides participants with a foundation in business basics, but introduces helpful tools, frameworks, and services available to support participants along their entrepreneurial journey. 

Māori Entrepreneurs Workshop In Whangarei In November

October 19, 2023|

Te Pūoho Katene Kaihautū of Te Tapuwaeroa formerly Te Pūtea Whakatupu Trust shares the details for the workshops running across the country to grow and develop Māori Entrupreneurship. The engaging workshops are facilitated by Sara Tāwha (Ramaroa Ltd). For more information, click here. Te Taitokerau participants will be able to attend a one-day workshop in Whangārei on the 4th of November.

Fish money promotes Māori start-ups

October 18, 2023|

Māori fisheries entity Tapuwae Roa is holding a series of regional wānanga to help Māori entrepreneurs bring their business ideas to life. The former He Putea Whakatupu Trust hopes to remove some of the barriers Māori experience when entering the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Facilitator Saara Tawha, who has been working with start-ups through the Kōkiri Māori Business Accelerator, says the Rakahinonga Roadshow will provide participants with a foundation in business basics and introduce them to helpful tools, frameworks, and services.

New initiative to help Māori bring business ideas to life

October 18, 2023|

Leading Māori social impact organistion Tapuwae Roa today launched a series of regional wānanga to support rakahinonga Māori (entrepreneurs) in bringing their business ideas to life. Facilitated by experienced business mentor Saara Tawha (Ramaroa Ltd), the interactive one-day wānanga hopes to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit of participants while providing key tools and skills to progress their business ideas to reality.

Tapuwae Roa hopes to bring out the aspirations of Māori startup entrepreneurs

October 18, 2023|

Leading Māori social impact organistion Tapuwae Roa today launched a series of regional wānanga to support rakahinonga Māori (entrepreneurs) in bringing their business ideas to life. Facilitated by experienced business mentor Saara Tawha (Ramaroa Ltd), the interactive one-day wānanga hopes to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit of participants while providing key tools and skills to progress their business ideas to reality.

Mā ngā ‘Amonuku’ e whakatō nei i ngā mātāpono māori ki ngā kamupene o te motu

September 27, 2023|

Kua puta te karanga i ‘He tukutuku koiora’ kia whai I ētahi kamupene whakahaere I te rāngai e ahu mai nei I te kaupapa o ‘Amonuku’ mō te 18 marama te roa, e noho nei ēnei kaupapa ki raro iho I te marumaru o Tapu Waeroa. Hai tā Te Puoho Katene, Kaihautu I Tapu Waeroa ko te whāinga nui o tē kaupapa nei kia whai wāhi atu ngā amonuku ki ngā kamupene o te motu kia pai ai tō rātou whakatō i ngā mātāpono māori ngā wāriu māori anō hoki. “Me pēwhea te whakatipu i tētahi māwake rangatahi ki ngā rangatira poari o āpōpō koirā te arotahi o tēnei kaupapa o ‘He tukutuku koiora’. E rua ngā tau me te hawhe ko te mea nui i te tau tuatahi he rurukū ki [...]

Tapuwaeroa: Tonganui Scholarship Recipient

September 19, 2023|

In this interview on our Te Reo o Te Rangatira show with host Girlie Clarke, Masters of Environmental Studies student Hikawai Te Nahu shares his work and studies towards the lakes in Rotorua and minimising invasive species. He is working with Te Arawa Lakes Trust and explains the important relationship between kaitiakitanga and environmental stu