Multi-year grants ($600,000)

We had five multi-year grants worth $120,000 each. These will be distributed at $30,000 per year at the beginning of each financial year (April 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026).

For these grants, we are interested in funding youth-led movements, collectives or communities who take organised action to build collective power, transform systems and create new futures. In particular, we are looking for:

• A collective vision, dream or imagining for the future (a clear goal)

• An articulation of how you think change will happen and what your movement will do to achieve it (a good strategy or theory of change)

• An idea of how you will know if what you’re doing is working (a plan for reflection and evaluation)

We were especially interested in funding:

• People with lived experience of the kaupapa they work on

• Movements that build power across difference

• Ideas that are innovative and have the potential to become transformational. We understand systems change requires experimentation

• Strategies that strengthen and nurture connections and relationships within movements - we think this is particularly important after years of lockdowns and the pandemic

• Tactics that are good for movement health e.g. initiatives that support wellbeing, healing, mediation and conflict resolution or training to build the skills of people to navigate a changing climate and world

The succesful grantees for the long term grants are, Mana Āniwaniwa, Te Waka Angamua, Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga, People Against Prisons Aotearoa, and National Disabled Students Association.

One off grants ($150,000)

In addition to the multi-year grants, we will also distribute $150,000 in one-off and rapid response grants, as follows:

• $1,000 - $5,000 grants in response to community movements

• Easy application process and light-touch reporting

Our final round of one off grants will occur in May 2026.