Call for Applications: ‘Grants for Good’ Program (New Zealand)

Deadline: 2 August 2024

The HealthCarePlus is currently accepting applications for the ‘Grants for Good’ program to support the growth of knowledge, the development of resources and the personal health and wellbeing of the members, their colleagues in the education & public service sectors and the wider New Zealand community.

The ‘Grants for Good’ program will provide funding support for educational initiatives that can leave you, your colleagues, your workplaces, your communities, or your opportunities, better off. The focus is on making good ideas possible, wherever they come from.

Grant Themes

The Future of Work
- Exploring issues such as work life balance, changes and management of workloads, how the sectors can better support lifelong learning, the impact of “Disruptive Influences” including natural and man-made (e.g. AI) on education, workplace, and wellbeing.
Wellbeing
- Exploring issues around how they can enable all the members to thrive, minimise the impacts of stress and burnout, and support or create better physical, mental or financial wellbeing in the education & public service sectors.
Equity
- Exploring issues around Te Tiriti understanding and implications, democratic decision-making, gender & pay equity, and giving workers a voice.
Special Topics
- Topics could include the value of early childhood education, work or industry experience for educators, retraining for a second career or responding to Climate Change.

Grants Category

Individual Grants
- These grants are designed HealthCarePlus Charitable Grants Procedures and Guidelines for 2025 to provide individuals with financial support for a maximum of 12 months for:
  - Hardship Grants for Study: These grants are designed to support direct costs of study in New Zealand for individuals who could not otherwise afford to do and are able to demonstrate their financial hardship.
  - Professional Development: HealthCarePlus takes a broad view of what can be included under professional development and this could include; tertiary study (either longer term or short courses), attendance at conferences or other professional development activities which will be of direct benefit to the applicant and ultimately the wider community.
  - Small Project Grants: These grants are designed to support direct costs that will be incurred by individuals in the planning and execution of small projects.
Group & Special Grants
- Grants are available for either team based projects or to support conferences.

Funding Information

Category 1: Individual Grants – the Grants Committee will consider applications from individuals for amounts from $3,000 up to a maximum of $12,000 (including GST if any) for one year.
Category 2: Group Grants – the Grants Committee will consider applications from groups of individuals or eligible New Zealand based organizations for amounts from $10,000 up to a maximum of $50,000 (including GST if any) for a maximum of 12 months.
Category 3: Special Grants – for group applications that do not meet the above criteria, e.g., they may be for greater amounts and/or cover multiple years. Normally these will be multi-year research or implementation projects.

What types of activities will they fund?

Educational grants to support further study including where financial hardship can be clearly demonstrated via the provision of supporting documentation.
Professional development, study, or training.
Practice-focused research or implementation projects, (i.e., projects designed to have an impact on, for example, educational practice in a specified context that has an impact on health and wellbeing of a workforce).
Facilitation of targeted educational conferences with clearly defined outcomes.
The Grants Committee is committed to supporting a range of new and innovative projects. So, the approval of an application in any round does not create any precedent for future applications in the same area. Each application will be judged on its own merits irrespective as to what may have been approved in the past.

Eligibility Criteria

All members of the New Zealand public and New Zealand based organizations are eligible and encouraged to apply for HealthCarePlus’s Education Grants who are either,
- Members of the New Zealand Public that are either New Zealand citizens or permanent residents, including but not limited to Members of the Union Owners and or HealthCarePlus, or
- Body corporates (including incorporated societies) or
- Unincorporated bodies.
Part of the philosophy of this fund is to foster a process that assists in developing application writing skills in individuals who have no or limited experience of applying for funding or managing funded projects. They actively encourage inexperienced applicants to seek external support (from e.g., suitably competent friends, work colleagues or fellow Union members) in developing their applications and if needed, identify and budget for a mentor to assist you with your project.

Deadlines