Deadline: 14-Sep-21
The Ministry of Social Development is inviting applications for Community Capability and Resilience Fund to critical need as a result of the current COVID-19 outbreak, particularly in areas that may not have access to other forms of support during higher alert levels.
The Community Capability and Resilience Fund (CCRF) is a fund available to iwi, hapü and community groups for initiatives that support the rebuild and recovery from COVID-19.
Funding Information
- The $36 million fund became available on 1 August 2020 to support communities over a two-year period.
- $2 million fund available for Iwi.
Type of Things
The types of things you can apply for funding:
- Promoting initiatives that strengthen community capability and wellbeing
- Implementation of community COVID-19 recovery plans
- Initiatives that support economic and employment outcomes
- Iwi, hapu, community hubs and collaborative impact initiatives
- Initiatives that support and strengthen social cohesion
- Initiatives that support and promote communities to normalise requirements and safeguards known to protect against or respond quickly to the risk of COVID-19.
Priority Groups
- The CCRF is targeted towards initiatives that support priority groups, which include Maori, Pacific and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The CCRF is for community organisations supporting their community to recover from impacts of COVID-19 and strengthen their social and economic wellbeing.
- Community organisations that:
- received significant funding in the previous round;
- can demonstrate they’ve been able to support community outcomes, and can continue to do so with further investment;
- are endorsed by an MSD Regional Office;
- will receive a higher weighting in the assessment process than applicants for new initiatives.
- Examples of community groups who can apply are:
- Local marae, whanau, hapu, iwi
- Multicultural councils
- Ethnic community organisations
- Faith based, religious and church groups
- Community Hubs
- Not for profit organisations and social enterprise.
For more information, visit https://www.msd.govt.nz/what-we-can-do/community/community-capability-and-resilience-fund/index.html