Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Foundation North is now accepting applications for its Community Grants to help community organisations with larger funding needs, and can be multi-year grants.
Focus Areas
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To be considered for a Quick Response Grant, your application must align to one of the focus areas that Foundation North wants to contribute to.
- Increased Equity: They will support approaches that achieve the aspirations of Māori and Pacific communities and address systemic and intergenerational inequalities in South Auckland and Northland. Children and young people will be the priority
- Social Inclusion: They will support approaches that reduce discrimination, racism and social exclusion. Former refugees, new migrants, the Rainbow community and people with disabilities will be the priority
- Regenerative Environment: They will support holistic approaches that conserve, preserve and restore the natural environment in the region. Initiatives proposed by tangata whenua that connect social and environmental practices will be the priority.
- Community Support: They will support participation in positive activities that improve overall wellbeing and bring communities together enhance skills and creativity build a sense of pride.
Funding Information
- Community Grants Over $25,000
Eligibility Criteria
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To be considered for funding your organisation needs to be:
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Able to demonstrate charitable purpose. This can be fulfilled by:
- an organisation being a registered organisation – charitable trust, incorporated society, Marae, Statutory Body, Branch of an organisation, registered under an Act ofParliament, registered under relevant legislation or a Company with charitable status.
- an organisation applying under the umbrella of a registered charitable organisation who will ensure that any grant is used for charitable purposes and that no private or individual gain is generated. Note: This will not exclude the umbrella organisation from applying for its own purpose within the 12-month timeframe.
- funding being approved via a contract for services grant to unregistered organisations, companies or individuals directly, that specifies how the funds will be applied for charitable purposes.
- Able to provide them with annual accounts.
- Providing a service, project or programme of benefit to the communities of Auckland and/or Northland. The boundaries, as defined by the Trust Deed, can be found here.
- An organisation is generally not able to receive more than one grant in a 12- month period.Exceptions will be made, on a case-by-case basis, for organisations providing an umbrella function, where there is a demonstrated and urgent need for additional support or where flexibility in timelines are needed for organisations in transition or organisations engaged in prototype.
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Able to demonstrate charitable purpose. This can be fulfilled by:
For more information, visit Foundation North.
For more information, visit https://www.foundationnorth.org.nz/funding/fund/community-grant?guide=test-when-can-you-apply-