Deadline: 15-Feb-22
The ANZ New Zealand Staff Foundation Grant Program is now open to applications!
Since inception in 2000, the ANZ New Zealand Staff Foundation has distributed over $8 million in community grants to more than 920 charities and community projects nationwide.
Funding Information
A maximum of $25,000 can be requested by each charity per funding round.
Funding Criteria
The Foundation supports registered New Zealand charities whose work fulfils one or more of the following purposes:
- To assist in the promotion of financial literacy.
- To provide opportunities for all New Zealanders to achieve economic and social independence.
- To provide access to learning opportunities that prepare people for meaningful work and a high quality of life.
- To assist people working together to create viable and secure communities.
- To assist communities to conserve New Zealand’s natural and historic resources.
The Foundation does not Fund
- Schools.
- Sports clubs.
- Endowments.
- Fundraising events or campaigns.
- Fixed assets, including equipment unless the equipment is critical to the operation of your organisation, e.g. hospice funding requests for medical equipment to assist patients with home-based care.
- Capital investment, e.g. new buildings.
- Normal operating and administration costs, including salaries. However, consideration will be given to funding the cost of providing specialist services, e.g. funding for 20 one-hour sessions with a specialist counsellor at an hourly rate per session.
- Debt repayment and operating budget deficits.
- Costs of attending overseas conferences.
- Travel costs, e.g. national and international airfares.
- Organisations that ANZ New Zealand is already sponsoring.
- Organisations that have already received funding from the Foundation in the previous 12 months.
- Charitable projects that are not New Zealand based.
For more information, visit https://www.anz.co.nz/about-us/corporate-responsibility/community/staff-foundation/