Embracing equity and Inclusion for rainbow communities

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ĀKAU’s collaboration with the Aperahama-Kopa whānau is bringing together an underserved community in Kaikohe to create a space of belonging for tamariki (children) with disabilities. Through multiple papamahi (workshops), tamariki and whānau have the opportunity to design and create elements of the space with their whānau.

ĀKAU strives to empower whānau and tamariki to shape their future and their community through creativity and design. ĀKAU projects have whānau and tamariki at their heart and their creative, hands-on process maintains hapori (community) needs and aspirations at the centre of their mahi, from start to finish. Its work on community projects goes from large masterplans to papakāinga (home villages), marae and public spaces to mahi toi (art).

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LiiFT Aotearoa strengthens and supports hundreds of not-for-profit and community groups in the wider Auckland region through face-to-face workshops and online courses. It provides a diverse range of qualified consultants to strengthen and support the mahi of boards, committees, managers, staff and volunteers.

Auckland North Community and Development (ANCAD) is a community development, non-profit organisation that has been serving communities since 1974 with the vision of resilient, safe and connected communities.

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Establish a Centre for Sustainable Finance (CSF) to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Finance Forum’s 2030 Roadmap for an equitable, inclusive and sustainable financial system by 2030.

The centre for Sustainable Finance is an independently governed charitable trust.  A key area of focus for the centre is progressing the 2030 Roadmap recommendation to ‘recognise that financial services and products are a utility – and provide support for innovative products and services that benefit people who currently fall outside the system’.

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Sau E Siva Creatives is a South-Auckland based Pacific dance theatre collective founded by former students of the Pacific Institute of Performing Arts. The group aims to deliver high quality, original work, the core of which springs from the cultural heritage artform of Siva Sāmoa (Samoan Dance). This passionate collective of Pasifika artists weaves multiple disciplines, diverse audiences and large-scale ensembles.

In 2012 the Pacifica Mamas Arts & Cultural Trust relaunched the Pacifica Arts Centre. It is now the home of the Pacifica Mamas and Papas, and is a busy hive for emerging and established artists alike.

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To support a holistic community development approach to the reduction of violence for transgender, non-binary, takatāpui and intersex people.

Gender Minorities Aotearoa advocates for all transgender, non-binary, takatāpui and intersex people to be empowered by a full range of choices across all aspects of their lives and able to participate in all aspects of society by providing 1:1 wraparound support to trans people of all ages.

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The Hauraki Gulf Shellfish Restoration programme aims to re-establish shellfish beds in this beautiful gulf. Shellfish reefs deliver a range of critical ecosystem services, including forming vital habitats that support many other fish and wildlife, stabilising the seafloor, and reducing sediment deposits and pollutants, therefore improving water clarity, while providing a food source for the community.

The Nature Conservancy’s vision is an Aotearoa/New Zealand with thriving lands, rivers and oceans enriching people and nature. It applies innovative financial mechanisms to conservation, shares learnings from globally proven approaches to conservation at a landscape scale, and builds the capability and capacity of local communities to achieve their environmental aspirations.

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Project He Paa Piringa will see Mā Te Huruhuru open innovative kaupapa Māori youth housing in South Auckland, supporting homeless taitamariki (youth). The housing will offer 18 bedrooms in new units, in a safe environment with 24/7 wrap-around support for young and homeless Māori in South Auckland. The duration of a young person’s stay will be between 12 and 24 months.

Mā Te Huruhuru is a charitable trust based in South Auckland and guided by the whakatauki ‘Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu’, meaning ‘With adorned feathers the bird will fly’. The bird is symbolic of children and young people, and the feathers represent the cultural, social and educational skills they need to grow, fly and contribute.

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The Warm Dry Homes programme emerged in response to the high prevalence of preventable illness in children living in cold, damp and mouldy conditions. It is delivered in three stages. Firstly, participants attend a workshop to learn behaviours that keep their homes warm and dry. Next a team from the trust visits the house to assess the interventions necessary, and lastly the team visits again to install curtains and other insulation. The aim of the programme is to increase a home’s temperature and reduce humidity, as these are critical indicators of a healthy home.

Children are born with unlimited potential — however, socioeconomic inequality impacts their chances to thrive. Kootuitui ki Papakura was founded in 2015 to improve lifelong outcomes for children. Rather than simply applying band-aid solutions, Kootuitui starts early and works with the local community, delivering initiatives that have been shown to make the most significant difference.

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ENGAGE develops children’s self-regulation skills through intentional play, with skills and games grouped into three domains: emotional (feeling), cognitive (thinking) and behavioural (doing). The programme aims to provide all New Zealand children with the opportunity to have these skills by scaling up across early childhood education centres and primary schools nationwide. The Government contributed $19.7 million this year to help scale up the programme.

Methodist Mission Southern initiated ENGAGE in 2017 as an evidence-based approach to developing children’s self-regulation skills through play. In research trials this approach has been consistently shown to support significant improvements in children’s self-regulation development, including reductions in hyperactivity, aggression and peer problems, and improvements in attention, effortful control and emotional regulation.

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Te Ngākau Kahukura works collaboratively to educate, advocate and change systems across health, rights and social service kaupapa, to make sure rainbow people grow up feeling safe and valued.

Te Ngākau Kahukura connects with a wide network of rainbow organisations that work towards an Aotearoa where rainbow people grow up feeling safe, valued and belonging in the places where they live, learn, and access healthcare and social support.

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Fair Food made ten new charity partners part of its regular network, distributing approximately 43,000 kg of perishable food such as meat, eggs, bread and dairy products into their communities each year. This equates to approximately 125,000 meals throughout the Auckland region.

Fair Food is the intermediary distributor of healthy fresh food. It rescues perishable food destined for landfill and redistributes it to their ‘business-to-business’ charity network of 40 partners and food banks throughout Auckland. Fair Food relies on a large and strong volunteer network to sort, store and transport the food.

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Our Languages Programme supports former refugee and migrant communities in their understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi. To date Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People has arranged translations of educational resources about Te Tiriti o Waitangi into 24 different languages, and supported resources such as pamphlets and videos in multiple languages, as well as community workshops.

Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People runs an education programme that aims to improve understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi among diverse communities, with a special focus on newcomers to Aotearoa, and speakers of all languages including New Zealand Sign Language.

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Pure Advantage champions green growth for a climate-positive, economically thriving and socially just Aotearoa. Its current initiative, Recloaking Papatūānuku, is an urgent and ambitious programme to restore our indigenous forests, building on the Ō Tātou Ngahere partnership with Tāne’s Tree Trust.

Pure Advantage supports a broad range of sustainability, regenerative and green growth-focused research activities that generate practical information and examples of transformative economic activity to preserve the relationship between the environment and the economy.

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The Nāti Kai initiative is a collective of grower-owned family farms working together to ensure fair pricing for both grower and consumer through a direct relationship. This community-supported collective helps increase food sovereignty and resilience while creating opportunities for whānau to derive income from their own whenua.

Hikurangi Enterprises was established in 2016 for the purpose of building and supporting commercial enterprises that create jobs and economic development in the Greater Waiapu Valley and Te Tairawhiti region. It focuses on three pou: the local provision of kai, housing, and meaningful employment.

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Mixit uses creativity to enrich the lives of young people by developing positive skills and experiences. It helps increase confidence, self-expression and communication skills, providing a multicultural platform where young people with refugee backgrounds ‘mix it up’ with local and migrant youth.

Mixit has developed a unique model of community engagement using creativity/creative arts as the vehicle, which it shares with other organisations to encourage and inspire initiatives that serve distinct regional needs.

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The Northland-based Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust (MTSCT) augments the strength of families and communities to enable our waters to thrive — now and in the future. It enables partnerships with regional organisations and is extending its services programme to Taranaki while increasing capacity and capability in Gisborne.

Established in 2002, MTSCT is a charitable umbrella and support organisation for the Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR) marine education and Whitebait Connection (WBC) freshwater education programmes.

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Well Women Franklin offers peer support groups, childcare (while women attend the peer support group), 24-hour telephone support, in-home help and home visiting. It also provides a social worker and an individualised goal-setting programme.

Well Women Franklin supports women and their families in Franklin and Papakura who are experiencing antenatal or postnatal distress and anxiety. The group also offers help to women who experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health disorders bought about by pregnancy or motherhood. Well Women focuses on wellness and resilience, using a holistic approach so that those they support can flourish as women and mothers.

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InsideOUT Kōaro supports schools, youth and whānau with the specific inclusion, safety and wellbeing of trans and gender-diverse youth at school. It fosters the building and provision of resources, education, information, hui and relevant tools that work to improve outcomes for rainbow young people.

InsideOUT Kōaro’s vision is that all rainbow young people in Aotearoa have a sense of safety and belonging in their schools and communities. It works with youth, whānau, schools, community groups, youth services, government agencies and other organisations to provide safer schools and communities for rainbow rangatahi.

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EDS is a non-profit organisation that drives improved environmental outcomes for Aotearoa/New Zealand through law and policy change.

EDS is a policy think-tank, a litigation advocate, and a collaborator — bringing together the private and public sectors for constructive engagement. It amalgamates the disciplines of science, planning, landscape and the law to provide leadership on the policy, regulatory and institution frameworks for environmental issues.

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Storytime Foundation’s programmes are designed to develop parenting skills and improve early language development by encouraging parents to read with their child/ren, as well as storytelling, singing and playing regularly and often. The overall aim of the programme is to promote parent/child attachment and bonding and to support the child’s cognitive development in readiness for school.

Storytime Foundation strengthens vulnerable young children and their families by enhancing the bond between parent and child early in life. A strong bond between a caregiver and child during the first 1000 days significantly improves outcomes in life for the child and the wider family unit, as well as having positive effects on literacy.

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Butterbean Motivation (BBM) works with individuals and whānau/’aiga that suffer from long-term illnesses due to obesity. It serves primarily urban Māori and Pasifika residing in socio-economically deprived communities suffering from impoverished conditions, inadequate and proper housing, cultural inequity and high unemployment, mainly in South and West Auckland.

Dave Latele established BBM Motivation in 2014 following his  journey to redeem himself after losing his wealth, health, whānau/’aiga and self-worth by becoming obese (weighing 220 kg). Through travelling this journey, he rediscovered himself, re-established his whānau/’aiga, regained his self-worth and restored his health and wellbeing.

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The 1point5 Project works alongside government agencies to help New Zealand achieve emissions reductions consistent with the Paris Agreement on climate change’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to below 2°C, and has set a transport emissions reduction target for net zero emissions in Auckland by 2050.

The 1point5 Project is a not-for-profit founded to focus and amplify the voices of those aiming to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C. The project helps focus New Zealanders’ efforts via research identifying our most pragmatic, 1.5°C-compliant pathway. It amplifies voices by providing communicators with a robust understanding of New Zealanders’ climate change sentiment with our ‘Six New Zealands’ research.