Funding Information

J R McKenzie Trust’s new strategy includes changes to the ways we fund. You can learn more about this strategy and whether your organisation is aligned with what we seek to fund in this announcement.

Funding information aligned with our new strategy will be available early in 2021, along with calls for applications. Funding will be allocated after April 1st.

This page will be updated when funding processes have been finalised, so watch this space!

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Other Funds You Can Apply For

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Working Together More Fund

The Working Together More Fund (WTMF) – He Pūtea Mahi Tahi – was established to help groups wanting to work together to achieve greater results for our communities.

Representatives of funders Wayne Francis Charitable Trust, J R McKenzie Trust, Todd Foundation, and The Tindall Foundation came together in 2009 to discuss how they could best support NGOs to manage through the recession and into the years ahead. The funders commissioned research and consultation into collaboration and found that:

  • Community groups work together a lot already

  • Successful collaboration takes time and isn’t always easy

  • It’s unlikely to work if forced

  • It can add significant value to groups’ effectiveness and efficiency

In October 2009, the WTMF was launched. In October 2011, The Hugh Green Foundation joined the group, and was followed by the DV Bryant Trust in December 2013.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

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J R McKenzie Youth Education Fund

Having a very similar name means that we are often contacted with applications for this fund. The Youth Education Fund is a separate funding body established by J R McKenzie. Although similarly named, this fund is not run by the J R McKenzie Trust. It is administered and distributed by Rotary District representatives around the country.

The funding focus is on providing assistance where death, sickness, family break-up, or economic hardship causes difficulty for young people and their caregivers to meet the young person’s education costs.

For more information on the types of things funded by the J R McKenzie Youth Education Fund, and who to contact, visit www.youtheducationfund.org.nz