Deadline: 31-Jul-20
The Northland Community Foundation is seeking applications for the 2020 Northland Grassroots Fund.
Northland Community Foundation acts as a Local Donation Manager for The Tindall Foundation, a philanthropic family foundation working throughout Aotearoa to support families, community and the environment. They distribute donations on behalf of The Tindall Foundation to projects and initiatives that support the Tindall Foundation Family/Whanau Focus Area within Northland. The funds provided by The Tindall Foundation are boosted by donations made to Northland Community Foundation’s Community Fund.
Funding Information
The Northland Grassroots Fund grants around $80,000 each year to worthy causes and charities in Northland. Organisations can apply for a grant of up to $15,000.
The Foundation will fund
The Foundation is looking for initiatives for families that:
- Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
- Enhancing the capability of parents.
- Supporting early childhood development, including language and literacy development, and social behaviour skills.
- Support the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people by:
- Promoting a positive youth development sector and growing its capacity.
- Focusing on early intervention/prevention strategies for young people.
- Supporting initiatives which promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly youth-led initiatives.
- Working systemically to address youth employment, especially for those most distanced from the labour market.
- Supporting and advocating for tamariki/children and rangatahi/young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
- Support the wellbeing of whanau/families by:
- Providing and assisting whanau/families into stable, healthy, and affordable housing – especially home ownership.
- Supporting the wellbeing of whanau/families in a holistic way, ensuring that their goals and aspirations are at the centre.
- Promoting violence free homes.
- Strengthening the identity and culture of whanau/families.
- support whanau/families back into housing, those which support people who are homeless etc.
The Foundation is more likely to support initiatives that:
- Support whanau/families experiencing multiple and intergenerational disadvantage
- Put whanau/families at the centre
- Are whanau/family-led
- Use kaupapa Maori models of practice
- Work holistically and provide wrap around support
- Are grassroots
- Focus on long-term solutions
- Are collaborative
- Are community-led
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for Grassroots Funding should be working in the Northland community, helping Families/Whanau by supporting the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years, rangatahi/young people, and/or whanau/families.
Exclusions
- Core or public health services, or initiatives where the children or whanau/families have a healthrelated issue or disability
- Core education, including kindergartens and government and/or privately funded early childhood centres
- Research from outside a community without its direct involvement.
- Sport, leisure and recreation, including initiatives where the outcome is purely sports related
- The arts, including initiatives where the outcome is purely arts related
- House repairs, or housing projects whose main beneficiaries are not low income whanau/families
- Buildings or land
- Animal charities
- Capital assets or equipment over $3,000
- Individuals, personal loans, endowments or sponsorships
- Religious or political advocacy
- Urgent or retrospective applications
For more information, visit https://northlandcommunityfoundation.org.nz/receiving/how-to-apply/