April 2023: New Kaikōkiri Announced
The J R McKenzie Trust is pleased to announce its most recent funding recipients as follows:
$75k over one year
Youth Employability Aotearoa (YEA) has a vision that ‘by 2030, all rangatahi (young people) in Aotearoa New Zealand have the skills and confidence to thrive in the changing world of work, learning and life.’ This funding will support YEA to amplify momentum for change in various ways including, enabling YEA member engagement and activation; facilitating a regional road show and a national hui; co-building an employers’ toolkit; creating narratives and stories content; and advocacy and capability building mahi.
The D*List
$300k over two years
The D*List is the new home for disability culture in Aotearoa New Zealand. The team creates content, events, and experiences that highlight and amplify disabled people’s voices, so that over time, we fundamentally shift how we think, talk and feel about disability. Creating connections, relationships, and memories from which community solidarity springs, ultimately leads to collective mobilisation for change. This funding will support community innovation, voice and leadership, and grow capacity for system-focused solutions.
$37.5k over one year
Established in 1989 as an incorporated, non-government body, Multicultural NZ acts as an umbrella organisation for the ethnic communities of Aotearoa New Zealand. This funding will support Multicultural NZ to work with the National Iwi Chairs Forum to establish a structural and operational connection that builds and maintains a strong and mutually beneficial relationship around the motu. This will be a unique collaboration providing voice and leadership opportunities to multicultural communities, thus growing their capacity for better settlement solutions and developing a sense of belonging.
Te Kīwai Matau o Ngāruahine
$100k over one year
This funding will support Te Ūkaipō, a newly created rangatahi ohu initiated by rangatahi of Ngāruahine who were passionate about te ao Māori and wished to create a safe and interactive platform to inspire innovative discussion amongst their people. The vision of Te Ūkaipō is to develop and deliver rangatahi-driven initiatives that are by rangatahi, for rangatahi. These include wānanga that will strengthen self-identities, practice of tikanga and kawa; provide a safe environment for growth and exposure to leadership opportunities; and boost self-confidence.
Just Move Charitable Health Trust
$300k over three years
Just Move Charitable Health Trust connects and supports families through Buttabean Motivation (BBM) which delivers free weekly community boot camps in South and West Auckland, Tokoroa, and soon in Hamilton. The BBM approach welcomes those at all fitness levels with no judgement, which breeds a culture of belonging where members take ownership and support one another. This funding will support the backroom operations of the programme, enabling the founders to focus on growing the volunteer base, developing new programmes, and increasing the reach of BBM.
$100k over one year
Te Ngākau Kahukura (TNK) is a national initiative that works towards the vision of an Aotearoa New Zealand where rainbow people grow up feeling safe, valued, and like they belong in the places where they live, learn, and access healthcare and social support. TNK works to change systems, build capacity, and encourage collective action. This funding will support the mahi of the core TNK team, enabling them to carry out work across the five core strategies of the TNK Theory of Change: educating decision makers, embedding rainbow competence in professional training, building inclusion in services, developing accessible information, and growing rainbow support sector infrastructure.