Our kaupapa

Over the next four years, we will distribute $750,000 to young people and youth movements working across five key areas:

  • Decolonisation and Anti-Racism

  • Climate Justice

  • Economic Justice

  • Disability Justice

  • Takatāpui and Queer Liberation

Our goals are to:

  • Back youth movements to transform Aotearoa and the world

  • Nurture cross-movement collaboration, kinship and solidarity 

Our kaupapa is grounded in the idea that better decisions are made about how we fund our movements if those decisions are made by people in movements. Click here to meet our grants committee members.

Multi-year grants ($600,000)

We have 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 are 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

All that said, we know we do not have all the answers about what our movements need. We are ultimately interested in your analysis, ideas and aspirations.

One off and rapid response 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 crisis or opportune moments

  • Easy application process and light-touch reporting

  • Open applications accepted as long as funds are available

We will distribute these grants in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

You can see our finances which are fully transparent on Open Collective here.