Northland Grassroots Fund Grants Program – New Zealand

Deadline: 20-Jun-21

The Northland Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Northland Grassroots Fund Grants Program to support families, the community, and the environment.

Funding Information

You can apply for up to $15,000.

What they fund?

They are looking for initiatives for families that:
- Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
  - Enhancing the capability of parents.
  - Supporting early childhood development, including language and literacy development, and social behavior skills.
- Support the wellbeing of rangatahi/young people by:
  - Promoting a positive youth development sector and growing its capacity.
  - Focusing on early intervention/prevention strategies for young people.
  - Supporting initiatives which promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly youth-led initiatives.
  - Working systemically to address youth employment, especially for those most distanced from the labour market.
  - Supporting and advocating for tamariki/children and rangatahi/young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
- Support the wellbeing of whanau/families by:
  - Providing and assisting whanau/families into stable, healthy, and affordable housing – especially home ownership.
  - Supporting the wellbeing of whanau/families in a holistic way, ensuring that their goals and aspirations are at the centre.
  - Promoting violence free homes.
  - Strengthening the identity and culture of whanau/families.
  - support whanau/families back into housing, those which support people who are homeless etc.
- They are more likely to support initiatives that:
  - Support whanau/families experiencing multiple and intergenerational disadvantage
  - Put whanau/families at the centre
  - Use kaupapa Maori models of practice
  - Work holistically
  - Focus on long-term solutions
  - Work in collaboration

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants for Grassroots Funding should be working in the Northland community, helping Families/Whanau by supporting the wellbeing of tamariki/children, rangatahi/young people, and/or whanau/families.

Exclusions

Core or public health services, or initiatives where the children or whanau/families have a health related issue or disability
Core education, including kindergartens and government and/or privately funded early childhood centres
Research from outside a community without its direct involvement.
Sport, leisure and recreation, including initiatives where the outcome is purely sports related
The arts, including initiatives where the outcome is purely arts related
House repairs, or housing projects whose main beneficiaries are not low income whanau/families
Buildings or land
Animal charities
Capital assets or equipment over $3,000
Individuals, personal loans, endowments or sponsorships
Religious or political advocacy
Urgent or retrospective applications