The Group seeks to

• connect leading New Zealand social entrepreneurs and investors with one another
• learn from New Zealand and international experience about how to foster and invest in the process of social innovation
• develop effective ways to invest in the projects and activities of New Zealand's leading social innovators and entrepreneurs
• celebrate the contribution that social innovation and investment can make to solving New Zealand's most complex social challenges

The Social Innovation Investment Group is supporting a network of leading social entrepreneurs to learn together, and to grow the skills and find the resources they need to implement and replicate their role models for change.

The membership of the Social Innovation Investment Group includes:

	Sukhi Turner, chair of the Social Innovation Investment Group, former Mayor of Dunedin, Chair of Trustees of the Enviroschools Foundation
	Rodger Smith, trustee of the Social Innovation Investment Group, trustee of The Jobs Research Trust, Manager of the South Auckland Family Violence Prevention Network, Manukau City.
	Simon Mortlock, trustee of the Social Innovation Investment Group, Senior Partner in Mortlock McCormack Law (Christchurch) and Trustee of the Wayne Francis Charitable Trust
	George Salmond, trustee of the Social Innovation Investment group, former Director-General of Health and currently active as a consultant, advocate and trustee in many community organisations including Porirua Healthlinks, Health Care Aotearoa, and the Wise and Blueprint Trusts
	Stephen Tindall, founder and trustee of The Tindall Foundation, founder of The Warehouse, former Chairman of the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development, member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
	Alan Broadbent, founder and Chairman of The Maytree Foundation (Canada), Chairman and CEO of the Avana Capital Corporation
	Iain Hines, Executive Director of the JR McKenzie Trust, board member of Philanthropy NZ
	Trevor Gray, manager of The Tindall Foundation, previously employed in community development and education in the very Far North
	Kate Frykberg, Executive Director of The Todd Foundation, and Deputy Chair of Philanthropy New Zealand. Entrepreneur and management consultant with Thinktank Consulting Ltd.
	The Executive Officer of the Social Innovation Investment Group is vivian Hutchinson, a leading New Zealand community activist and social entrepreneur on employment and economic development issues.