Overall Goal

A wider Waikato where all children and young people are secure, resilient and thriving to ensure they meet their full potential

To protect and preserve the environment as a valuable taonga for future generations

Focus Areas

•  Maori Communities
•  Overcoming Inequity
•  Mental Health and Wellbeing
•  Community Based Learning
•  The Environment

We are more likely to fund groups/initiatives that:

•  Generate outcomes in at least one of our five key focus areas.
•  Are inclusive of Maori, Pasifika and/or refugees.
•  Maori, Pasifika and Refugee led projects – nothing about us without us.
•  Level the playing field/address inequity.
•  Support positive intergenerational outcomes.
•  Are community led with community at the heart.
•  Culturally empowering.
•  Involve young people in their development.
•  Are collaborative.
•  Have a “big-picture” approach that addresses community and policy influences.

Successful applicants will align clearly with our overall goal.

Goals of Our Funding

All Waikato tamariki (0-12) are given every opportunity to reach their full potential. They are confident in who they are, and they look to the future believing they will succeed. (Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2 and 4).

•  Initiatives targeted at our most vulnerable tamariki – tamariki on the fringes are brought to the centre.
•  Creation of opportunities for improving the systems and structures which mean children stay in poverty.
•  Initiatives with positive intergenerational outcomes.
•  Initiatives which focus on overcoming inequity.
•  Supporting and advocating for children and young people, especially children in care, or the prevention of children needing to be taken into care.
•  Enhancing the capability of parents/caregivers.
•  Holistic initiatives that focus on resilience and mental health and wellbeing of children.
•  Initiatives providing children with a solid platform to become amazing rangatahi.

 

Waikato rangatahi (12-24+) are provided with the opportunities to contribute to society in a mana enhancing way, whether that be through education, employment, training, entrepreneurship, leadership or community contribution. Waikato rangatahi are empowered for success. (Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8 and 10).

•  Initiatives/charities that advance Maori, Pasifika and/or refugees.
•  Initiatives/charities that support and build on the capability of our young people – from rangatahi to rangatira
•  Focusing on fostering positive outcomes and relationships for rangatahi and their whanau.
•  Purposeful activities that build important life skills (academic, social learning and employment).
•  Integration of family, school and community efforts.
•  Provision of opportunities to use learned skills and to experience success as participants and leaders.
•  Supporting initiatives that promote identity and participation and equality of young people, particularly led by rangatahi.
•  Support mental health and well being of our rangatahi.
•  Creation of opportunities for entrepreneurship, leadership and community contribution.
•  Fostering a sense of altruism and contribution to society.

To protect and preserve the environment as a valuable taonga for future generations.

•  Environmental organisations who focus on getting young people into the environment.

•  Organisations or initiatives that increase the mental health and wellbeing of our rangatahi and tamariki in the environment.

•  Environmental projects/groups that empower Maori to retain and promote traditional knowledge and its use in environmental management.

•  Organisations which are addressing climate change.

•  Organisations or initiatives that support and promote the youth climate change movement – to inspire, empower and mobilise a generational movement of young people to take positive action on climate change.  We acknowledge that our young people are our future and we want to empower them to create change.

•  Environmental innovation and technology, particularly that focus on other elements of our criteria.