The J R McKenzie Trust hosted a breakout session on The Advocacy Chain and Systems Change. The discussion panel…

Two breakout sessions at the Philanthropy Summit 2019 were supported by the Māori Advisory Committee. The first session, ‘Supporting Māori aspirations’ followed the thought-provoking, courageous and challenging keynote presentation…

Following a call at the Philanthropy Summit 2017, the J R McKenzie Trust has been instrumental in setting up an Education Funders Network with PNZ…

he focus of this programme is on enabling New Zealand families, their children and grandchildren to flourish in the places they live, work, learn and play…

The J R McKenzie Trust is pleased to announce its most recent funding recipients as follows…

Established 16 years ago, Migrant Action Trust (MAT) is a charitable trust working to support migrants and former refugees in their settlement process in Aotearoa New Zealand…

Nelson Tasman Pasifika Community Trust (NTPCT) has a mission “to provide, support and strengthen the Nelson Tasman Pasifika Community to grow, achieve and prosper”…

Te Waipuna Puawai (TWP) is a thriving community development initiative, based in the heart of the Tamaki community in Auckland. Established in 1999, TWP is committed to working with…

Ngāti Porou Hauora in partnership with Huringa Pai – Where whānau are their own solutions, and their own motivation…

Family members, staff, trustees and friends of J R McKenzie Trust extend their heartfelt sympathy and aroha to the Muslim community of Christchurch and all Aotearoa New Zealand…

The Christmas edition of He Pito Mata is here now…

Walking into Gisborne’s Ka Pai Kaiti is like walking into a wharekai, there’s an obvious sense of urgency mixed with organised chaos, yet an overwhelming aroma of aroha, manaakitanga and whanaungatanga…

The UMMA Trust was established in 2003 to provide social and community services for former refugee and migrant communities with a specific focus on the wellbeing of Muslim women, children and families…

Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga is a community alliance rising to the challenge of growing voice and power in Aotearoa NZ. Funded for three years by the Peter McKenzie Project…

ActionStation is an independent, crowdfunded, community campaigning organisation. Its missions is “to tautoko (support) and whakamana (uplift) everyday New Zealanders…

JustSpeak, ‘a youth-led movement for transformative change in criminal justice towards a fair, just and compassionate Aotearoa’, has a very important kaupapa…

I attended the Philanthropy Australia Conference in early September, along with around 700 other delegates. The theme for this year was “Purpose – is it enough?” and the conference offered an excellent array of topics which addressed this question. With a mix of large plenary sessions and smaller break-out panel discussions available, the two stand-out speakers for me were Fred Blackwell (CEO, San Francisco Community Foundation) and Jeremy Heimans (Co-Founder and CEO, Purpose).

COMET Auckland is the Community Education Trust Te Hononga Akoranga, an independent charitable trust and Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) of Auckland City Council, founded with the mission to drive systems change to make education and skills more effective and equitable in Auckland.

The statistics are sobering. Many lower deciles schools have only an 80% pass rate in NCEA Level 1; 12% unemployment for 15–24 year olds; only 85% of 18 year olds have NCEA Level 2…

Today marks 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote. On 19 September 1893, after the suffragists submitted a petition with nearly 32,000 signatures New Zealand became the first country in which women could vote. Three years later in 1896 Kate Sheppard founded the National Council of Women.

The Lifewise Merge Community Team continues to flourish, particularly as the team’s skills and capabilities grow through training and practice. The team are soon to recruit new volunteers to the team from the wider homeless community.