Philanthropy in New Zealand

Duffy Books In Homes

Duffy Books in Homes is dedicated to nurturing a love for reading among New Zealand's tamariki. We provide over children in nearly 530 lower-decile schools and more than 280 Early Childhood centres with free books three times a year. Our mission is to break the cycle of booklessness by instilling a passion for reading in Duffy tamariki, fostering future generations of avid readers and leaders. Research underscores our impact: historically schools in our program have seen reading scores improve by up to 35%. Now, tamariki in Duffy schools maintain their reading achievements over the summer holidays, a challenge faced by many others. We take pride in our role as an integral part of school literacy programs, offering tamariki something they can cherish and pass down through generations. Witnessing the original 'Duffy Kids' now passing on their love of reading to their own children is among our greatest rewards. Want to join us in making a lasting impact? Your support will help us to inspire young minds, enabling them to dream big and achieve even bigger. Visit our website to learn how you can make a difference today.

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Namaste Foundation

We support nonprofits for ecological care.

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Toi Foundation

Toi Foundation is a philanthropic organisation where our community’s success drives everything we do. The foundation supports in traditional, philanthropic ways, while also looking to the future with a focus on strategic and innovative granting and impact investing to achieve even greater long-term, intergenerational and transformational benefits for our communities. In 1990 – our first year of making grants – we gave out in funds. Now our annual grant making runs into the millions, with over $150 million granted since 1990.

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Community Trust South

Community Trust South is the guardian of a community endowment of over $224 million. We help a wide range of groups and people in the south of New Zealand every year, by distributing millions of dollars in grants, scholarships and community loans. We are proud to be associated with so many people and organisations as we continue to work together to make the south a wonderful place to live.

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Endangered Species Foundation New Zealand

The Endangered Species Foundation of New Zealand (ESFNZ) is a registered charitable organisation supporting high-priority conservation projects that protect New Zealand’s most vulnerable indigenous species and habitats from extinction. We aim to save the 'Rarest of the Rare'.

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Generosity New Zealand

Generosity New Zealand, formerly the Funding Information Service, is a social enterprise established in 1992 to collect, collate and convey information about funding. We create equitable access to resources by providing searchable tools that match resources to needs. We currently offer access to more than $4.5 billion worth of funding opportunities.

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Milford Foundation

The Milford Foundation's mission is to strengthen New Zealand communities through the lenses of youth, education and environment. Through a combination of investment expertise, our generous donor community, a commitment to efficiency, effectiveness and transparency, and strong partnerships, we can – and will – make a meaningful impact for New Zealand’s future generations.

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Top Of The South Community Foundation

Top of the South Community Foundation was founded to encourage and enable generosity in the top of the South Island for the benefit of our communities.

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Michael And Suzanne Borrin Foundation

The Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation is a New Zealand philanthropic organisation that was created by a generous bequest of $38 million from the late Judge Ian Borrin. The foundation is the Borrin family's gift to New Zealand. Our vision: We believe law is essential to a flourishing society – one that is just, inclusive, tolerant and free. Our vision is of an Aotearoa New Zealand where everyone understands the role and value of the law, and everyone enjoys the protection and opportunity that it provides. Our mission: We support legal research, education and scholarship that contributes to our vision for Aotearoa New Zealand. We aim to fund high-performing people and organisations to do work that will have a significant and enduring impact on the lives of New Zealanders, through the law.

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Rei Foundation Limited

Rei Foundation Limited was established in 2012 with the goal of contributing to social change through sustainable development. Rei Foundation collaborates with diverse partners in New Zealand and internationally to facilitate positive development for communities and individuals. Rei Foundation also supports research projects that aim to provide new knowledge, valuable in the fields of community development and peacebuilding. Our mission: To contribute to creating a world in which every person lives with dignity and has their life celebrated. Our values: Advancing human dignity, celebrating human diversity. Rei Foundation insists upon a human rights-based inclusive approach, promotes creativity to express the uniqueness and identities of individuals and communities, and builds peace and promotes wellbeing within and among individuals, communities and the wider global community.

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Hawke's Bay Foundation

Connecting local people with the local causes they love

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Sutherland Self Help Trust

The Sutherland Self Help Trust provides grants to community organisations throughout New Zealand since 1941.

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Te Taumutu Runanga

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The Christchurch Foundation

The Christchurch Foundation helps create, support and build the foundations for a better Ōtautahi Christchurch, and the surrounding Selwyn and Waimakriri Districts. Community (City) Foundations are relatively common-place around the world and many other regions in New Zealand have recognised the need for a “place-based” charitable organisation to enable donors to give directly to their city or region. The Christchurch Foundation actively collects, manages and distributes funds for community projects, charities, causes and not-for-profits (both large and small) in delivering the important work that they provide. A wide range of giving programmes is available to enable contributions to the long-term good of communities, such as bequests, endowments, diaspora or expat giving and corporate partner programmes. Donors’ contributions can be ‘ tagged’ to a sector (e.g. recreation and sport community projects), community within the geographic area (e.g. Opawa) or to a range of charities. Contributions could also be ‘ untagged’ and spent at the discretion of the Foundation Trustees under a developed set of policies. The Foundation will always ensure donor wishes are met.

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Rule Foundation

The Rule Foundation seeks to advance the health, wellbeing and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) New Zealanders. We give funds for projects and activities that support LGBTI people, and for education and research on LGBTI issues. Donate today to help us help LGBTI Kiwis.

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Tuljai Foundation

Tuljai Foundation aims to help underprivileged families to have a better life while at the same time giving the youth of today an opportunity to learn, grow, and feel like what they do will make a difference. This foundation was started up by Tuljai Parkar during her final year of engineering after she had raised during the Miss Universe New Zealand competition and sponsored 3 underprivileged kids."When you give money to charity, you want to know where it's actually going to, who it's actually helping, and how it is helping"- Tuljai Parkar "My goal for 'Tuljai Foundation' is to create community projects such as an irrigation system for a rural Indian village to bring fresh water to villages so that the farmers can grow crop, and so that we can stop all those farmers from committing suicide due to water related problems and leaving their young children to look after themselves, or a sweater making workshop at a library that will provide sweaters to keep underprivileged children warm in the cold New Zealand winter" Anyone and everyone can help, by donating time to help run these projects, or money to provide the financial backing to these projects To know more about how you can help, please contact the director, Tuljai Parkar on LinkedIn

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Eastland Community Trust

ECT is Tairawhiti's local energy trust - with a goal of assisting in the creation of a more positive, prosperous and attractive community. ECT commits resources to those investments that make the greatest contribution towards achieving this vision and transforming our region. Our mission. To contribute towards increasing the quantity and quality of choices people and groups can make, to build meaningful and fulfilled lives. Our focus is on fostering the Gisborne district's economic prosperity through acquiring, owning and prudently governing investments and utilising resources to support and encourage selected commercial and community initiatives.

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The Gardner Group Limited

TGGL offers consultancy services to the non-profit and educational sectors, specialising in supporting adoption, implementation and maintaining best fit technologies for prospect management and donor stewardship. Raiser’s Edge™ Consulting Raiser’s Edge™ Training Prospect Database Design

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Effective Altruism Auckland

Effective altruism is a philosophy and growing social movement that applies evidence and analysis to determine the most effective ways to improve the world. Many people want to make the world a better place, but not all good-intentioned acts have the same impact. Some have no discernible impact, some actually make things worse, but the very best actions can make an incredibly large difference. By seeking and acting on evidence and using critical thinking we can all make a significant positive impact on the world.

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45south Foundation

Connecting your legacy with your community.forever. Giving With Purpose Simple. Efficient. Flexible. The Wakatipu Community Foundation was born from the recognition that we all benefit if we live in a caring community with strong ties and diverse opportunities. We have deep roots in the Wakatipu. We pair our strong relationships with our decades of expertise to invest in an array of important charitable causes that improve the quality of life for the whole community. By delivering grants, building partnerships and strengthening the capacity of non-profits, the Wakatipu Community Foundation will use your donation to make the Wakatipu the best place in the world to live. We have developed a straightforward set-up process and a structure that you can plug into without any of the hassle of registering and running a separate charity. We are ready-to-go with our experienced trustees and external professional partners who are very experienced in funds management for community trusts. We can work alongside your professional advisors to offer personalised expertise and design the most effective strategy for fulfilling your philanthropic passions.

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Zonta Club Of Auckland North Shore

Zonta International is a global organisation of women executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Formed in 1919, Zonta has over members and is active in 65 countries of the world. Learn more about Zonta International on Members of Zonta Clubs support women and girls in their local communities, run projects in many parts of the world that address some of the most pressing needs facing women, and advocate on women issues at all levels of society. Zonta International has a long and well respected history of partnership in conjunction with the United Nations agencies, and maintains consultative status on women issues with the UN, and Council of Europe. In New Zealand, Zonta has been active for more than 45 years, and has 28 clubs from Northland, to Otago. We combine service and advocacy, with fun and fellowship. We welcome membership enquiries from women wishing to join us in this important work.

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Fulbright New Zealand, Te Tūāpapa Mātauranga O Aotearoa Me Amerika

Fulbright New Zealand promotes mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchanges between New Zealand and the United States of America. Offers a range of enriching and life-changing exchange awards for New Zealanders and Americans wanting to study, research, teach or present their work in each other’s country.

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