Deadline: 20-Jan-23
The JR McKenzie Trust Grant Programme is now open for applications with a focus on creating a socially just and inclusive New Zealand.
Funding Information
- Grants for more than $30,000 are approved and allocated four times a year by their Trustees at their quarterly Board meetings.
- Grants under $30,000 can be applied for at any time and you will be notified within 4 weeks if your EOI has been declined or if further information is required to make a final assessment.
Expected Impact
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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations working with one or more of their Communities of Interest:
- Children, young people and whānau
- Māori
- Pacific Peoples
- Communities that experience exclusion
- 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 changemakers, disrupters and influencers to advance their skills, capacity and influence
- Developing communities of practice to share learning and support ngā kaikōkiri to achieve impact
- Support community innovation, voice and leadership
Ineligible
- Ongoing programmes or services
- Individuals
- Schools
- Organisations that fundraise primarily for schools
- School-based and extracurricular programmes
- Operating costs for sports clubs
- Medical and health research
- Single-issue health organisations
- Core healthcare services, including hospitals and GPs
- Rest homes and retirement villages
- Promotion of a religious or political message
- Arts and culture exhibitions or events
- Central or local government
- Construction or renovation of buildings, school halls, gymnasiums, playgrounds, or swimming pools
- Commercial ventures
- Purchase of land, buildings, or vehicles
- Endowments, capital funds, other trust funds
- Overseas travel, either to or from New Zealand
- Contribution to a debt reduction
For more information, visit JR McKenzie Trust.