Welcome

The J R McKenzie Trust makes grants to community organisations in New Zealand, mainly in the areas of social services, health services and community development.  You can check out whether your organisation might be eligible for a grant, and download our application forms.

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See Here

This initiative aims to make a positive difference for children who have mild or moderate vision problems.  Vision problems can impair learning, development and enjoyment of life.

The evidence is in!

Our See Here team, with the help of stakeholders, has produced two key documents. These documents have been developed to present the evidence for a review of policies relevant to children with mild and moderate vision impairment.

The evidence-based case is a relatively long and detailed document, which may not be of interest to all readers, so See Here has also produced a summary booklet for much wider distribution.

These will be available here on Tuesday 22 July.

  • The See Here evidence-based case:  Click here to download (PDF, 1599KB)  If you do not have a PDF viewer you can download Adobe Reader from here.
  • The See Here Summary Booklet:  Click here to download (PDF, 597KB)  If you do not have a PDF viewer you can download Adobe Reader from here.

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Making life easier for fundseekers

In recent months, a small group of organisations including the Trust has been exploring how:

  • The business of getting and accounting for grants and donations can be made simpler and more “user friendly”
  • Funders might work together to make this happen.

This work has been focused in Waitakere, and we hope it will be of use anywhere.

Click here to read a summary of the research that has been undertaken (PDF, 195KB).

If you'd like to read the full report, (PDF, 5.10MB) click here.

Click here to read a paper designed to help people new to this business make sense it all - The four myths of funding (PDF, 213KB).


Organisations involved in this project are: Community Waitakere, ASB Community Trust, Waitakere Licensing Trust, The Tindall Foundation, Waitakere City Council and the J R McKenzie Trust.

 
 
Sir Roy McKenzie 1922-2007

Sir Roy McKenzie, one of New Zealand’s leading philanthropists, died at his Lowry Bay home on 1 September 2007. 

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2007 Annual report

Click here to read our latest annual report. (2.96 MB)  If you do not have a PDF viewer you can download Adobe Reader from here.  

We can also post this to you.  Just contact the office.

 
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