Deadline: 28-Jul-25
The Spectrum Foundation is inviting grant applications to support projects and organisations that help disabled people and their whānau thrive.
They distribute funding through a mix of open and targeted funding opportunities.
Categories
- Small Grants: For smaller, community-based projects with a local focus.
- Large Grants: For projects that address significant needs or have a wider impact.
- Targeted Funding: For initiatives that tackle large-scale issues or help new organisations get started.
Areas of Focus
- Their approach focuses on the following areas:
- Self-determination and independence: They are focused on supporting the independence, self-determination and mana – enhancement of disabled people. All funded initiatives should have a strengths-based approach and align with Enabling Good Lives principles.
- An equity lens: Across their funding they focus on those with greatest need and least access to opportunities. Rural communities, Māori and Pasifika are communities of particular interest.
- Lived experience at the centre: Spectrum Foundation is committed to ensuring decision-making is guided by people with lived experience of disability.
- Lasting change and progression: They are focused on how their funding can help to achieve genuine, lasting social change that will benefit disabled people now and in the future.
- Accessible and transparent: They seek to maximise access by simplifying their processes and offering guidance to applicants and those they fund.
- Collaborative: They build trust and relationships with people and organisations that they support.
Funding Information
- Spectrum Foundation aims to distribute up to $500K of philanthropic funding in this funding round.
Eligibility Criteria
- Apply if:
- You run an organisation or programme.
- You work in disability.
- You want to ask for some funding.
- The ‘funding’ is some money from Spectrum Foundation.
For more information, visit Spectrum Foundation.