October 2024: New Kaikōkiri Announced
The J R McKenzie Trust is pleased to announce its most recent funding recipients.
Impact Grants (over $30K)
Driving Change Network
$150K
Driving Change Network Charitable Trust was established to address the barriers within the Aotearoa New Zealand driver licensing system that prevent many people from progressing through the Graduated Driver Licensing system to gain a Full NZ Driver Licence. Through monthly online working groups, regular regional hui, and an annual conference, the network has evolved into a driver licensing sector peak body and support network.
This funding will enable the Trust to continue its work towards changing the NZ driver licence system to being a world leading system that is able to be easily accessed by anyone who wants to secure a licence.
Community Housing Aotearoa
$200K
Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) is the peak body for Aotearoa New Zealand’s community housing sector. Members include community groups, housing trusts, Māori and Pacifica housing providers, tenancy services, local authorities, and private housing businesses.
This funding will continue to support CHA’s mahi towards seeing ‘All New Zealanders Well Housed by 2030’. Adequate housing would see all whānau, young people, and mokopuna flourish. Addressing housing inequality is key to remedying long term poverty and is the platform for building people’s capability to meet their own needs and live the lives they wish to lead.
The Workshop
$54K
The Workshop’s mahi focuses on creating conducive conditions (including public support) for evidence-based policy that will improve the lives of children and families through research, compelling messaging and storytelling, training, and resources to help organisations and media improve public understanding of what causes poverty and which solutions work to end it.
This funding will support The Workshop to deliver ‘Kōrope’, a think and do tank designed to shape pro-social economic and social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand on what works to improve life for children and families.
Lagi-Maama Limited
$300K
Lagi-Maama Limited is an educational and cultural organisation based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland that is involved in knowledge production by privileging Indigenous ways of being, knowing/feeling, and doing.
This funding will support the ‘Lagi-Maama Shift Strategy’: tailored and targeted approaches that are required to serve the 17-plus diverse ethnic island nation communities that make up the wider Moana Oceania diaspora communities living in Aotearoa New Zealand.
PIASS Trust
$100K
The PIASS Trust promotes and advances the general welfare, and physical, spiritual, and mental development and wellbeing of Pacific People within the Greater Auckland region.
This funding will support its project focused on Tagata sa'ilimālo (Pacific disabled people, and their families and carers) pursuing success by providing practical support so that this community can engage in education, training, employment.
O Le Nu'u Trust
$225K
O Le Nu’u Trust (The Village) is a community-led, faith-based organisation founded on Christian values, that provides wellbeing services to Pasifika people in Wellington.
This funding will support its project, ‘Pasifika Financial Health, Wealth, and Resilience Programme’ which is focused on developing a fully equipped and trained Pasifika Financial Capability workforce of trainers and facilitators to work with the community. By cultivating good financial habits and staying disciplined, individuals can achieve financial stability and security.
Common Unity Project Aotearoa
$80K
Common Unity Project Aotearoa (CUPA) is a community-based urban development project with a vision of enabling its community to feed, connect, and regenerate itself, empowering people to thrive in a disadvantaged community.
This funding will support CUPA to continue to run its community-led programmes and strengthen the organisation and its leadership.
Wesley Community Action
$200K
Wesley Community Action is a community development organisation that supports grassroots action to grow wellbeing, capability, and leadership among diverse and frequently excluded groups in its community. Its work is focused on tackling inequity – facilitating innovative approaches that are driven by the people seeking the change, and that make a real difference for those with greatest needs.
This funding will support the establishment of a Club Whānau Innovation Lead role, who will work with Club whānau wanting to make positive change in their lives and are ready to seek solutions and begin to action their own steps to change.
Youth Employability Aotearoa
$150K
Youth Employability Aotearoa (YEA) exists to ensure all young people in Aotearoa New Zealand between the ages of 13 and 30 years have the skills and confidence to thrive in the changing world of work. Its mission is to create a collective voice leading systems change for youth employability.
This funding will support YEA’s ‘Systems Change for Good’ initiative designed to raise awareness, create a framework of good practice, supply professional development for youth employability providers, and reach a wide variety of education, business, and career influencers.
Seed Funding for Innovation Grants ($30K or less)
| Organisation | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hui E! Community Aotearoa | $10,000 |
| Ethnic Rainbow Alliance | $30,000 |
| Black Creatives Aotearoa | $25,000 |
| Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand | $20,000 |
| Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective | $30,000 |
| Pati AF Ltd | $10,800 |
| Poutū Pasifika | $30,000 |
| Mā te Rae Māori Evaluation Association | $10,000 |
| The Depression Recovery Trust | $30,000 |
| Road II Redemption | $10,000 |
| Eaqub and Eaqub | $30,000 |
| Restorative Justice Services Ōtautahi Christchurch | $30,000 |
| West Auckland Mental Health Support Trust | $24,000 |
| Kaha E Au | $10,000 |
| Te Ao Hou Trust | $11,500 |
| Auraki Group Ltd | $30,000 |
| Para Kore Marae Incorporated | $15,000 |
| Te Riu o Waiapu Charitable Trust | $29,900 |
| Te Rau Hihiri | $15,000 |
| Reo Māori Mai | $15,000 |
| Te Kotahi a Tāmaki | $20,000 |
| Te Hāpai Hoe Charitable Trust | $20,000 |
| Ngāti Kapumanawawhiti | $25,000 |
| Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa | $10,000 |
| Shoebox Christmas Trust | $19,620 |