About the Enspiral NetworkEnspiral NetworkEN_2e525a3a-dd4f-11e4-9b2d-1cfe6abdd6abSocial EntrepreneursEnspiral PeoplePeople are at the heart of Enspiral. The Enspiral Foundation connects people and companies in the Enspiral network. Committed members are the stewards of the Foundation, each taking responsibility to grow the network, develop our businesses and create the community benefits that underpin our work. Enspiral is a wide and diverse network of people. The members listed below are supported by an active network of 150+ contributors and friends from New Zealand and around the world.Alanna KrauseAlanna is a co-founder of Loomio and a director of the Enspiral Foundation. She's passionate about innovating processes, technology, and structures for positive social impact.Andre BateAndre is a co-founder of Metric Engine and wants to save organisations reinventing the wheel through making it easy for them to learn from each other.Anthony RohanAntz is a co-founder of Enspiral Accounting and heads up the Christchurch office. He provides accounting support for NFPs, charities and social enterprises and specialises in Xero implementations and Xero add-ons.Ants CabraalAnts is a co-founder of chalkle and is always looking for ways to unboringify the important and help good things go faster.Ben KnightBen is a co-founder of Loomio. He has a research background in cognitive neuroscience and the evolution of collective intelligence, and a practical background in community coordination, social justice organising, media and communications...Charlie AblettCharlie is Senior Developer with Craftworks. Her focus is on dissemination of information and leveraging technology for positive change. She wants the world to see crafting software as the creative and totally-not-boring discipline that it is.Chloe WaretiniChloe is a co-founder of the Waitakere Festival and heads up The Purposive Collective -- a multi-disciplinary team in Enspiral Services of people who use their creative talents to build communities of purpose around social and environmental projects.Charmaine MeyersCharmaine is a co-founder of Enspiral Accounting and a Director of Enspiral Space. She has a passion for Accounting, Local Food and helping social enterprises achieve their best.Craig AmbroseCraig is a senior programmer with Enspiral Craftworks, and technical lead on chalkle. He's passionate about crafting beautiful code and lifelong learning.Chelsea RobinsonChelsea was one of the founders of Generation Zero, she was a New Zealand Youth Delegate to the United Nations Climate Negotiations and a Convenor of the Delegation to Mexico in 2010. Chelsea has a BSc in Environmental Studies and is currently working with Loomio, LifehackHQ and Generation Zero.Josh FordeJosh is a founder of Rabid, specialists in new online products and services. A board member of Enspiral Foundation, long-time member of the Enspiral network, and investor in Pledgeme and ThunderMaps, he is involved throughout Wellington's startup and social enterprise community.Joshua VialJoshua is an entrepreneur with a passion for business, technology and social change. He is the founder of Enspiral, co-founder of Enspiral Craftworks, Dev Academy and Better Insights and a board member of Enspiral Foundation and handful of other Enspiral companies.Jon LemmonJon is a co-founder of Loomio. He brings a powerful combination of technical experience, communication skills, and passion for community. He has several years experience working on software in the film and music industries, and has further experience coordinating and engaging in community-based events and social activism.Megan SaloleMegan is the outgoing Executive Director of ActionStation.org.nz -- a progressive engine for enabling more democratic participation and people powered change. She has an extensive background in creative campaigning and across business and political landscapes, is a huge fan of social enterprise, and an eternal optimist.NanzNanz is a freelance graphic designer specialising in branding, web design and infographics. She helps social enterprises and NGOs realise their vision through design and collaboration. Currently, she is the design lead at chalkle, Dev Academy and Conscious Consumers.Rebeka WhaleRebeka Manages Enspiral Space, our co-working home-base. She’s a Spatial, Performance, Experience, Graphic Designer, and Maker with a knack for facilitation, comms and growing food. She brings the juju to our social and public events, and freelances with local entities.Richard D. BartlettRich is Director of Autonomy at Loomio. He believes in the boundless potential of small self-organising groups to reshape society in a way that works for the planet.Robert GuthrieRob is a software architect with Loomio. He spends his days dreaming of ways to innovate on the internet and disrupt the status quo by creating open technologies.Rochelle FurneauxRochelle is the Director of Enspiral Legal Ltd and provides both Enspiral and private clients with legal advice in relation to social enterprise and traditional business.Rohan WakefieldRohan is a co-founder of Enspiral DevAcademy and has a background in business development, working with both large organisations and startups. He has a keen interest in growing New Zealand's technical workforce capabilities.Samson OotoovakSamson likes computers AND people. A computer programmer working in Ruby and more and more in Javascript. Fortunate to be a part of DevAcademy, Bucky Box and Enspiral teams.Silvia ZuurSilvia is the founder of chalkle and board member of Enspiral Foundation. She brings a passion for education, and wealth of international youth work and events management.Simon TeggSimon works across Loomio's Comms and Product teams. Read his long pieces at the Loomio blog, read his short pieces at @loomio, read his code at git blame github.com/loomio.Sam ParkinAfter 8 years of corporate life abroad Sam returned to NZ to find new motivation through Enspiral's mission, values, and startup cultivating initiatives. An analyst developer with a strong data background he mainly works with iOS, WordPress and PHP. Maz HermonMaz is a digital creative and designer, front end web developer, collaborator and animator with a keen interest in UX/UI and general creative problem solving using visual communication.Linc GaskingLinc co-founded chalkle and is co-founder/CEO of 8i, pioneering a new way of recording & experiencing live-action content using virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift.Anake GoodallAnake is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based company director. He is committed to building the support networks needed to get ideas up and to scale, and is attracted to great people working on wicked problems.Sam RyeSam is currently leading the social innovation lab, Lifehack HQ, founded Volunteer Impact and occasionally works freelance with Purposive. His background spans sectors and disciplines. Sam believes in the power of individuals working together to regenerate our society and the planet which nurtures us.Damian Sligo-GreenDamian is a co-founder of Noshi Creative and is energised by service and design solutions that empower people and positively contribute to the health of our shared environment.Phill CoxonPhill is Foundation Operations Manager for the Enspiral Foundation, director of Enspiral Services and a developer in the Lean Websites team. Phill is passionate about creating postive social impact through community development and social enterprise.Theodore TaptiklisTeddy is a thinker, writer and organisational activist working towards a new era of human enterprise and collaboration. Seeing a strong connection between New Zealand's distinctive place in the world and the bold independence of the Enspiral collective, he is hoping to help to bring these together to create a unique and transformative global offering._2e525ce2-dd4f-11e4-9b2d-1cfe6abdd6abTo create a collaborative network that helps people do meaningful work._2e525dbe-dd4f-11e4-9b2d-1cfe6abdd6abServiceService with Intention -- The drive to have a positive impact on a critically stressed world guides our work at Enspiral. We use our time to discover the most direct paths to a future of thriving local and global societies, and then direct our energy into clearing the way so that others can follow.IntentionsExcellenceDeveloping Excellence ...TalentOutstanding talent is a prerequisite. Continuous ImprovementFrom there, we continuously improve what we deliver, and how we work with our clients and each other. StandardsWe hold ourselves to world-leading standards. EpowermentAn Empowering Culture ...CultureDiversityWe value each other and the strength, resilience, and fulfillment that come from a richly diverse and equitable workplace.EquityFreedomEach of us has the freedom to work as we choose. WorkHappinessThis is the fertile ground for people to lead happy professional lives.EntrepreneurshipOur way of working gives rise to a new era of entrepreneurship that puts productive capital behind the innovation and lasting changes we need to make.InnovationLasting ChangeOpportunityEveryone at Enspiral has the opportunity and the support to pursue the social business ideas and innovations they're most passionate about.SupportIdeasPassionPerspectivesThere are as many perspectives on Enspiral as there are people in it. It's a new take on livelihood, based on helping more people work on stuff that matters. DecentralizationThis decentralised network of social entrepreneurs is finding the balance of autonomy and collaboration, and innovating new processes and tools in business, technology, and social change.Ideas & ProjectsSpark ideas that become new projects_2e525e7c-dd4f-11e4-9b2d-1cfe6abdd6abBucky BoxBucky Box is building cloud software for an emerging food system, one that solves the food distribution problem in ways that foster earth-friendly farming and resilience. It's a social enterprise on a mission to foster a human food system that is supportive of the long term health of all living systems.ChalkleChalkle makes it easy for anyone to stand up and say "I have a skill and I want to share it with others", and in doing so it tips the education model on its head. LoomioLoomio empowers communities to take collective action by making simple to participate in decision-making...RabidRabid is a Wellington-based software firm that works with organisations and entrepreneurs to envision and develop new products and services. We use open-source technologies to develop useable solutions with clients and products that span business, NGO, and community sectors. Experts in web development, Rabid actively contribute to open source and projects that make a positive impact in people's lives and the community.Metric EngineMetric Engine is an app that helps similar organisations compare their performance and see how they can improve. Metric Engine had its roots in an earlier project called Parks Base which was used by Australian councils to compare the performance of their parks and recreation spaces. Parks Base pre-dated Enspiral but later was placed into the network and with some collaboration and a bigger team, the venture evolved into Metric Engine which is set to expand into new industries. The Metric Engine team want their app to help organisations with a social purpose thrive.Enspiral AccountingEnspiral Accounting provides professional accounting services to individuals and organisations who value social responsibility. enspiralaccounting.comEnspiral LegalEnspiral Legal specialises in supporting tech startups, social enterprise and charities on structures, commercial advice, legal documentation, copyright and licensing.Enspiral SpaceEnspiral Space is a co-working space which caters especially to social enterprises, non-profits and ethically focused freelance professionals...Enspiral DevAcademyNew Zealand's first Developer Academy. Launching Wellington in 2014. Radically upskill your tech skills in a 9 week bootcamp.Volunteer ImpactVolunteer Impact is focused on supporting environmental volunteers to track, measure and understand their impact.LIFEHACKLIFEHACK supports Kiwis to develop & launch inspiring Wellbeing projects and ventures with a tech focus.Enspiral CraftworksEnspiral Craftworks is a collective of developers and designers, who build beautiful software for enterprises and startups. ActionStationActionStation is a new platform for progressive citizen-led social change that enables Kiwis to take powerful, coordinated action online and offline.ScoopScoop is NZ's largest independent news source freely available to the public and has a range of communications services for professionalsWhere conversations spark ideas, that become new projects, which grow into world changing ventures. Each of our ventures tells a story of collaboration sparked from like minded people coming together._2e525f4e-dd4f-11e4-9b2d-1cfe6abdd6ab2015-04-07http://www.enspiral.com/about/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net