Background

The Future We Want

• Known and trusted by those who are targeted by racism
• Inviting, relevant, and useful to all tauiwi
• Focused primarily on anti-Māori racism, while also addressing other forms of racism in Aotearoa
• In support of tino rangatiratanga, Matike Mai Aotearoa, He Puapua, and aligned movements
• “Making tino rangatiratanga irresistible to everyone”
• Mobilising effectively against backlash to these developments furthering tino rangatiratanga
• Taught in schools
• Self-sustaining financially, through donations, grants, and services
• A place to go following a Te Tiriti workshop, as a 'something you can do'
• A go-to place for organisations, campaigns, and publications to get practical support with racism/harassment
• Coordinating anti-racist responses to specific issues/events through partnerships
• Impactful both on- and offline
• Changing our country's culture and discourse 
• An ever-growing community that is collectively governed
• Supportive of all kinds of people bringing TT to their own communities
• Strategically guided by and accountable to tangata whenua

How To Get There

• We want to create more content and resources for ‘training the trainers’, which could take the form of a manual, videos, mentoring, and workshops, where experienced TT facilitators guide new ones.
• We will fund the time of community facilitators who have up to now been volunteers, to help their work become more sustainable and grow.
• There is the potential to collaborate with other facilitator groups, such as Flying Geese (see below), worth exploring to grow capacity as well as numbers in our facilitation team

• Facebook group: Has evolved from “ActionStation Tautoko” to simply “Tautoko”, representing how it is now run by and for the TT community itself. 
  • People will continue to join this group as they finish TT training. 
  • Key volunteer members should be supported and resourced to ensure the group is well-held.
  • A key function of the Facebook group is to share links to media articles where Tauiwi can jump into the comments and use TT techniques to shift the discourse. For this to happen effectively, we need a critical mass of engagement, so this will also be a focus.
  • Introduce a process to protect the integrity of the closed facebook group, eg
    • A more robust intake structure to make sure people have been vetted and are joining in good faith
    • Possibly a separate closed fb group for new cohorts, who then join the main group on completion of the course
    • Running orientation sessions for new groups members
    • Caucus sub-groups for tauiwi of colour, tauiwi moana, and tauiwi Pākehā
• Meetups and Zui: TT community members have identified ongoing whakawhanaungatanga and mutual āwhina as an important motivator and enabler of participation in this mahi. 
  • If there is capacity, we will continue the monthly zui calls, welcoming more participants and responding to what the community tells us it needs in terms of fun social interaction, debriefing from TT work, inviting speakers who are experts in different areas, etc. 
  • We’ll support the convenors of these calls, so they can be consistently hosted and organised.
  • We would love to have local in-person meetups or even a larger TT conference hui to bring together people from around the motu. COVID depending, but we can also imagine doing virtual versions.
• Administrative support: Thanks to our new funding source, we are able to now pay for ongoing administrative support, by the highly experienced and knowledgeable Ann Cloet. With Ann's help, we can have our finger on the pulse to various opportunities, and the growing TT community and its needs. 
• Tuakana/Teina: We want the TT community to have a sense of institutional knowledge, with experience and learning of those who have gone before being passed to new people coming in. This can take the form of mentorship, pathways to step into various community roles, alumni stepping into the 'reflector' role for new cohort trainings, evergreen content like videos and documentation, and deepening relationships.
• Role allocation post-course: So many alumni of TT bring with them amazing networks, skills, and passions. We want to make the most of this to grow and increase sustainability of our TT community, by enabling people finishing the course to identify how they might like to contribute going forwards - tech, media, facilitation, organisational skills? a group you know who may like to do the course? venues or other useful resources you have free access to? we want to hear about it! 

• TT has already received a grant of $10,000 from Te Muka Rau, which helped enable the December hui to happen and will support short term expenses while we create a longer term budget. We’re very grateful for this amazing kick-start to the next phase.
• Another specific philanthropic grant is in the works, and we’re being advised about other grant opportunities that could be a good fit potentially.
• We aim to use the opportunity these donations provide to set up a funding structure that is self-sustaining in future years, exploring ideas like: 
  • We think many grant funders and crowdfunders would be interested in supporting TT—if we can clarify our needs and plans and tell our story well.
  • Multiple engagements with organisations seeking to pay TT to deliver trainings are in the works. We want to develop a clear offering of professional services, because there is a real gap TT could fill. Much of the existing anti-racism training content in use in Aotearoa comes from the US context—we need training for our unique context in Aotearoa. The gap is also defined by people not knowing what to practically do next after introductory Te Tiriti training. These corporate trainings could then help fund the non-profit trainings and other expenses
  • There is the possibility of having those who take the formal 10-week course paying a nominal fee (eg a pay-what-you-can scale)
• TT has signed up with Gift Collective, giving it access to charity status and enabling philanthropic grants, and also providing the infrastructure to get paid for services, do crowdfunding, and receive koha. The TT page has fundraising features and transparently tracks the budget, as well as facilitates payments for project expenses.
• TT to develop clear packages for different groups seeking to do the programme (eg corporate, non-profit); create clear point of contact and portal to increase accessibility and visibility of the programme.

• Continue to add additional resources and improve the videos and other content currently in the course.
• Flying Geese have recently run a pilot cohort through the course internally and are exploring deploying their skilled facilitators to run cohorts for the public. They have generously offered to provide valuable feedback about improving the course in light of their testing of it, and we hope to continue collaborating with them going forward.
• Create content and adapt structure so the course is as relevant and inviting to non-Pākehā tauiwi as tauiwi Pākehā
  • Guidance for course facilitators about how to facilitate mixed tauiwi groups, particularly when tauiwi Pākehā are the larger group
  • Content designed by and for tauiwi moana and tauiwi of colour
  • More discussion about how Te Tiriti conversations can use language that is inclusive of all Tangata Tiriti, and relevant and useful for them. (Jen Margaret has offered to give us guidance in this area)
  • Determine who facilitates and provides strategic oversight in this area. Should there be a tauiwi of colour advisory group, tauiwi of colour facilitators of formal trainings and all in-person hui as part of these trainings? This hui benefitted from having contributors who spoke to this need for enlarging TT to be truly designed for all tauiwi, and we will be connecting with them for their guidance on this in the coming months.
• Develop content about bringing the TT techniques into offline interactions. People already do this, so we’d like supportive training resources.
• Collaborate with The Workshop (Jess Berentson-Shaw and Marianne Elliott) on a messaging guide specifically for TT, and/or a more advanced training course around values-based messaging.
• Create a TT website that effectively guides people looking for different things, such as signing up for a TT course cohort, organisational trainings, etc.
• Develop and seek other online opportunities for interaction, beyond comment threads of news stories.

• Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori
• Matike Mai Aotearoa
• He Puapua
• Coordinate around key dates/events (eg Matariki)
• Various ActionStation campaigns
• Publication of media related Te Tiriti, racism, Māori issues (eg Māori Health Authority)
• NZ History Curriculum roll-out
• Partner with Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono; Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga; New Historians (re: implementing new NZ History curriculum)
• Partner with Te Tiriti educators
• Partnerships with those who can guide and advise us about evolving with tauiwi of color in mind

• Emily Beausoleil: Point of contact, project leadership, general coordination
• Ann Cloet: Admin and community support, events support, comms
• Alanna Irving: Technical support, fundraising infrastructure, legal, finance, compliance, reporting, strategy support
• Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira, Kassie Hartendorp, and Veronica Tawhai: tuakana/kaitiaki, tangata whenua guidance
• Kate Frykberg: Fundraising advisor, general mentorship
• Online community facilitators: Facebook group moderators, media link posters, monthly zui convenors - TBD
• Formal cohort facilitators: Vish, Emily, Hannah, plus possibly Flying Geese

Next Steps

• Report back to hui participants with this update
• Publish this update and share with key community members
• Bring these topics to the next community hui and the Facebook group
• Kick off the tangata whenua advisory group and get their input
• Develop an explicit budget plan
• Follow up grant funding opportunities and convey our plans to funders
• Follow up paid opportunities to deliver trainings in organisations
• Confirm roles and people commitments for key areas of responsibility

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