Deadline: 14 January 2019
Vodafone New Zealand Foundation is seeking applications for Innovation Fund which has been set up to support innovative work that aims to create better outcomes for our most excluded and disadvantaged youth.
Funding Information
In December 2018 round Vodafone Foundation have $285,000 total to distribute. They will only be accepting applications at the seed and pilot funding levels in this round.
- Seed funding ($1,000 to $10,000 per application)
- The seed funding aims to support early stage ideas and concepts being developed for use in New Zealand. This fund can be used for research, to develop options papers, build relationships or create a feasibility study. It’s focused on exploring ideas and testing their viability before proceeding to a pilot stage. There must be a focus on generating positive outcomes for the most excluded and disadvantaged young people in New Zealand.
- This is the start of the innovation pipeline and we anticipate organisations that are successful will apply for pilot funding in a future grant round.
- This fund is not a scholarship fund for tertiary studies.
- Pilot funding ($10,000 – $50,000 per application)
- This fund is designed to turn developed ideas into practice. This may involve building a minimal viable product or testing a project/programme in the real world.
- If successful applicant’s organisation will have up to six months to develop and implement their pilot project. Applicants will need to provide the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation with measurements and learnings from the pilot – both the positive and the challenging.
- Applicant’s organisation does not need to have received seed funding to be applicable for pilot funding.
- Vodafone Foundation anticipates organisations with pilot projects that demonstrate positive outcomes for the most excluded and/or disadvantaged young people in New Zealand will apply for scale funding in a future grant round.
Key Areas
The Foundation will be focusing on five key outcome areas:
- Youth justice: supporting young people who have interacted with the justice system
- Care and protection: supporting young people who have care and protection orders and interactions with Oranga Tamariki
- Long term beneficiaries: creating opportunities for young people who struggle to find work, or experience intergenerational unemployment
- Rangatahi Maori: supporting better outcomes for rangatahi
- Meaningful learning: ensuring all young people have access to learning opportunities and education that suits their needs
Criteria
- Vodafone Foundation is looking for proven or promising ideas, projects and programmes that align with their strategy, generate outcomes in one or more of five keys areas and that utilise technology in their implementation or dissemination.
- The Foundation recognises that innovation takes time and projects may be at different stages of development.
- This is an open, contestable grant round and all registered charities are encouraged to apply.
- An organisation can only submit one application per grant round and must indicate if it is for seed, pilot or scale funding. If successful a maximum of 15% of the grant may be used for organisational overheads.
- The Foundation is open to collaborative applications, and, where possible, they will aim to fully fund successful applications.
- The majority of successful applications will be those that use technology to implement or disseminate their project and are likely to support positive intergenerational outcomes.
- The Foundation is unlikely to fund research or intervention around specific physical interventions, generation of short films or web series unless supported by ongoing youth development, one off events.
How to Apply
In order to apply, please fill the online application form via given website.
For more information, please visit https://foundation.vodafone.co.nz/innovation-fund/
