Deadline: 10-Jun-21
Applications are now open for the ACORN Foundation Grant Program.
Priorities
Support organizations to provide:
- Access to housing and reducing inequity
- Improving the accessibility of owning or renting a safe, healthy home
- Improving basic household financial skills
- Providing tenancy support services
- Wraparound housing support for tenants or owners of sub-standard homes
- Supporting young adults
- Initiatives that support a successful transition from education to employment
- Initiatives that re-engage NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training)
- Health & Wellness/Safety
- Reducing drug and alcohol abuse
- Reducing domestic violence
- Reducing child abuse
- Building stronger communities
- Kaupapa Maori initiatives supporting cultural development and inter-generational transformation.
- Caring for the environment
- Other: Limited funding is available as specified by individual donors in the areas listed below. They recommend you contact us before submitting your application to ensure your organization’s work lines up with donor objectives.
- Organizations supporting people recovering from addiction
- Organizations supporting people with medical treatment or conditions
- Children with specific health or education needs (funds need to go to a charitable organization)
- Organizations providing services to support the elderly
- Organizations benefiting the deaf
- Organizations supporting victims of abuse, particularly sexual abuse
Funding Information
There is an upper limit of $10,000 per application for both Acorn and Tindall funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charities and community organisations that benefit the Western Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand.
- The Western Bay of Plenty region encompasses the following areas: Waihi Beach, Katikati, Kaimai, Tauranga, Te Puke and Maketu, including Paengaora, Pongakawa and Pukehina.
- Acorn also distributes funds on behalf of The Tindall Foundation in both the Western BOP and Eastern BOP regions.
- The Eastern Bay of Plenty includes the districts around Whakatane, Opotiki and Kawerau, but excludes Rotorua, Minginui and Murupara.
For more information, visit https://www.acornfoundation.org.nz/funding/application-information