J R McKenzie Trust’s Strategy 2021-2030 Announced
J R McKenzie Trust’s new strategy, Te Anga Rautaki, is the latest expression of the giving philosophy developed over the last 80 years by the McKenzie family; a philosophy grounded in respect for the mana and mahi of the organisations and communities it supports.
Focus on Equity
Te Anga Rautaki has a singular priority: working and investing in ways that advance equity through transformational change and system-focused solutions.
Advancing equity means addressing underlying causes of inequity and exclusion. It means shifting the conditions that hold inequities in place, that prevent people from fulfilling their potential.
Our Funding Approach
Support community innovation, voice and leadership
Support communities to try out ideas with potential to enhance wellbeing and strengthen identity, connection and access to opportunities.
Support initiatives that enable community voices and stories to inform solutions.
Grow community leadership.
Support programmes, systems and policies that are designed with community, especially with those less visible or may be excluded from decision-making.
Strengthen collaboration & support collective action
Strengthen and enable collaboration where ngā kaikōkiri see potential to work together on solutions.
Strengthen and build the capacity of networks, coalitions and partnerships that enable systemic thinking and action.
Support more connected and collective efforts to shift the conditions holding problems in place
Grow capacity for system-focused solutions
Strengthen readiness, skills and capacities of ngā kaikōkiri to think and act systemically.
Support ngā kaikōkiri to develop new and known (Indigenous) solutions or practices that address issues of social justice and advance equity and inclusion.
Support changemakers, disrupters and influencers to advance their skills, capacity and influence.
Develop communities of practice to share learning and support ngā kaikōkiri to achieve impact.
Who do we want to fund?
We are interested in partnering with those experiencing the greatest inequity, exclusion and disadvantage in four communities of interest:
Children, young people and whānau
Māori
Pacific Peoples
Communities that experience exclusion