Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The J R McKenzie Trust’s Grants Programme is now open for applications to create a socially just and inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand.
Types of Grants
- Quick Response Grants
- The Quick Response grants provide support up to $30,000 to help you give life to your mahi. They are focussed on Seed Funding for innovation – but still within the Trusts’ strategy.
- Impact Grants
- For larger initiatives, spanning up to 3 years, they offer Impact Grants of over $30,000.
Expected Impacts
Their funding is targeted towards mahi that creates real impact in communities:
- More connected communities
- Stronger connections and relationships within and amongst communities and ecosystems.
- More inclusive decision-making
- Power is shared so that communities are able to be self-determining and can participate equitably in decision-making.
- Equitable access to resources
- Communities have fairer access to the resources that they need to achieve equitable social and environmental outcomes.
- Increased capacity for transformational change
- More effective social change practices, to ensure communities have greater capacity and capability to lead change that makes a big difference to people’s quality of life.
- Equitable public policies
- Effective policy and legislation that is designed to address the underlying structural causes of inequality and exclusion.
Eligible Projects
Applications must have a strong focus on equity and demonstrate alignment with at least one of their three change strategies:
- Support community innovation, voice and leadership:
- Supporting communities to try out ideas with potential to enhance wellbeing and strengthen identity, connection and access to opportunities.
- Supporting initiatives that enable community voices and stories to inform solutions
- Growing community leadership.
- Supporting programmes, systems and policies that are designed with community, especially with those less visible or may be excluded from decision-making.
- Strengthen collaboration and support collective action:
- Strengthening and enabling collaboration where ngā kaikōkiri see potential to work together on solutions.
- Strengthening and building the capacity of networks, coalitions and partnerships that enable systemic thinking and action.
- Supporting more connected and collective efforts to shift the conditions holding problems in place.
- Grow capacity for system-focused solutions:
- Strengthening readiness, skills and capacities of ngā kaikōkiri to think and act systemically.
- Supporting ngā kaikōkiri to develop new and known (indigenous) solutions or practices that address issues of social justice and advance equity and inclusion.
- Supporting change makers, disrupters and influencers to advance their skills, capacity and influence.
- Developing communities of practice to share learning and support ngā kaikōkiri to achieve impact.
Eligibility Criteria
Organisations working with one or more of their Communities of Interest:
- Children, young people and family
- Māori
- Pacific Peoples
- Communities that experience exclusion
Ineligible Projects
- Ongoing programmes or services
- Individuals (including scholarships)
- Schools (including universities and all early childhood services)
- Organisations that fundraise primarily for schools
- School-based and extracurricular programmes
- Operating costs for sports clubs (this includes equipment, salaries, uniforms, and prizes/trophies)
- Medical and health research
- Single-issue health organizations.
For more information, visit J R McKenzie Trust.