# Partnership Evidence — 90-Day Activation Framework

**Research cut-off:** 4 August 2026
**Status:** Sanitised public framework
**Scope:** Media, retirement-village, HCSS/provider, community and public-sector pathways

## Activation thesis

A useful growth sequence builds evidence in layers:

1. A media test measures whether useful information reaches and engages an older audience.
2. An independent-living village test measures one resident participation workflow.
3. A provider/community test measures referral acknowledgement, completion and failure.
4. Public-sector stakeholders receive aggregated evidence only after operational learning exists.
5. Funders receive a costed, governed proposition only after ownership and stop/go measures are explicit.

Media reach, village adoption and completed referrals are different measures. None alone proves reduced loneliness, avoided admission or health-system savings.

## Ranked activation routes

| Rank | Route                        | First action                                                                  | Evidence required first                                                                                  |
| ---: | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|    1 | Older-audience media         | Confirm authority, disclosure, proof, delivery and measurement terms          | Signed insertion order, current circulation evidence, channel tracking and privacy-safe destination      |
|    2 | HCSS sector association      | Request critique and appropriate provider introductions                       | Two-page non-clinical proposition, workflow, data boundary, pilot cost and stop/go measures              |
|    3 | Retirement-village operator  | Run operational discovery before discussing external funding                  | One resident journey, resident-representative role, source-of-truth systems, workload and assurance plan |
|    4 | Selected HCSS provider       | Validate one community-connection or referral workflow                        | Intake-to-closure map, capacity rules, regional owner and measurement ownership                          |
|    5 | Regional public-sector owner | Clarify locally delegated authority once a provider and scenario are selected | One provider, geography, bounded problem and explicit non-clinical scope                                 |
|    6 | Community or council partner | Validate local delivery capacity and digital-inclusion routes                 | Eligible partner, local-plan fit, consent model, decline and redirect rules                              |
|    7 | Social-impact funder         | Qualify capital only after operational discovery                              | Instrument, entity and IP, cost, milestones, assurance and buyer/funder conflict separation              |

Warm introductions, private referrals, agreed follow-up windows and named stakeholder requests belong only in the password-protected Meetings workspace.

## Public opportunity and watch list

- **16 September 2026:** HCHA Forum at Te Papa; member or guest access must be confirmed.
- **29–30 September 2026:** Alzheimers NZ Conference, Auckland and online.
- **30 September 2026:** Office for Seniors Age-friendly Fund closes; eligibility excludes businesses and commercial or existing projects.
- **15–16 October 2026:** Volunteering New Zealand masterclass and conference, Rotorua.
- **28–30 October 2026:** Aged Care Association Conference, Wellington; non-member exhibition access is constrained.
- **25 November 2026:** Health Digital Investment Plan advance-notice listing ends; it is not an open PiP tender.
- **2–4 December 2026:** NZAG Conference, Christchurch; 2026 abstracts are closed.
- **Northern HCSS procurement:** the ROI closed on 20 February 2026. No shortlist or award was publicly verified by the research cut-off; a stated implementation target is not an award.
- **Seniors & Travel Expo 2027:** no dates, venues, current prospectus, prices or speaking inventory were publicly verified.

Every event entry should carry a verification date and an access status such as open, member-only, closed, waitlisted or unconfirmed.

## 90-day operating sequence

### Days 0–10

- Confirm commercial and editorial terms for any media test.
- Prepare the two-page provider-pilot proposition.
- Book retirement-village workflow discovery.
- Select one candidate geography and one community-delivery pathway.
- Publish privacy information before collecting demo, pilot or QR data.

### Days 11–30

- Map the village activity and communication workflow with staff and resident representatives.
- Select one provider and one community-delivery partner.
- Freeze definitions for reach, handoff, acknowledgement, attendance, repeat participation, failure, accessibility and workload.
- Complete the product-assurance evidence required for the intended pilot gate.

### Days 31–60

- Use sector events to validate workflow and ownership, not imply procurement access.
- Produce a village go/no-go pack before a separate funder proposition.
- Submit a grant application only where an eligible partner owns genuinely new, non-commercial work.
- Keep the first test non-clinical and independent of health-system integration.

### Days 61–90

- Reconcile verified delivered reach, completions, opt-ins and qualified outcomes.
- Monitor HCSS procurement without describing an intended timeline as an award.
- Send public-sector stakeholders an aggregated evidence update naming the workflow, measures, limitations and next decision—not private participant information.
- Choose one well-governed live pilot rather than several under-owned tests.

## Progression rules

- Media activity may recruit or educate; it cannot validate health outcomes.
- Village adoption does not establish community-provider fit.
- Referral clicks are not completed connections.
- Association support is not buyer approval.
- Positive comments and warm introductions are not endorsements.
- Provider ranking is a research hypothesis until interest, capacity and local authority are verified.
- Capital discussion follows evidence and assurance; group assets or historical sale proceeds are never treated as available cash.
- Pilot results are reported in aggregate with denominators, limitations and failed-referral reasons.

## Source register

- HCHA events: https://www.hcha.org.nz/events
- Office for Seniors — Age-friendly Fund: https://www.officeforseniors.govt.nz/our-work/age-friendly-communities/apply-for-an-age-friendly-community-grant
- Alzheimers NZ — 2026 conference: https://alzheimers.org.nz/explore/events/save-the-date-for-our-2026-conference/
- Volunteering New Zealand — 2026 conference: https://www.volunteeringnz.org.nz/news-events/volunteering-new-zealand-conference-2026
- Aged Care Association — 2026 conference: https://aca-conference-2026.eventsairsite.com/
- GETS — Northern HCSS advance notice: https://www.gets.govt.nz/HEALTHNZ/ExternalTenderDetails.htm?id=33179328
- GETS — Health Digital Investment Plan notice: https://www.gets.govt.nz/HEALTHNZ/ExternalTenderDetails.htm?id=33099110
- NZAG 2026: https://gerontology.org.nz/

## Research boundary

This public framework contains no private correspondence, negotiated terms, meeting logistics, warm-route names or unverified personal claims. Those remain in the password-protected Meetings workspace.