Deadline: 23-Sep-22
The JR McKenzie Trust is seeking applications for its grant program to create a socially just and inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand.
What They Fund
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
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
Deadlines
- Grants for more than $30,000 are approved and allocated four times a year by their Trustees at their quarterly Board meetings. Dates of Board meetings in 2022 are: 1st April, 8th July, 16th September, 2nd December.
- Their grants are applied for by submitting an Expression of Interest. (See EOI Tab below). The final close off date for EOIs in 2022 is the 23rd September.
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.jrmckenzie.org.nz/funding