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
- Support the wellbeing of tamariki/children through their early years by:
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
For more information, visit https://northlandcommunityfoundation.org.nz/receiving/how-to-apply/