My Baby's Village Community Fund

COMMUNITY FUND APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

 

The My Baby’s Village community fund provides a pool of funding to Pacific communities across Aotearoa.

 

We recognise our communities have many innovative solutions. The My Baby’s Village fund is about supporting and investing in our Pacific communities and family groups to lead these solutions by supporting their ideas, initiatives and projects which lead to improved health and well-being within one of the four funding priorities.

 

The My Baby’s Village Community Fund is made possible through sponsorship from members of the My Baby’s Village collective.

 

My Baby’s Village invites our Pacific communities across Aotearoa to apply for the My Baby’s Village Community Fund.

This pool of funding is available to invest in Pacific communities and families, supporting them to lead ideas and initiatives that will have a positive impact on one or more of the following four priority areas:

  • Pacific infant care.
  • Strengthening family relationships.
  • Child and family health and wellbeing.
  • Building community/village support systems for children and their families.

 

My Baby’s Village promotes the active involvement of our communities to bring about long-lasting, positive change for our Pacific infants, children, and their families. Pacific ways of doing things have also regenerated and inspired practices that connect us to each other and to our ancestors. We truly believe that our communities and families have the solutions.

The Community Fund is made possible through sponsorship from members of the My Baby’s Village collective.

Applications open on Wednesday 30 November 2022.

 

Applications close on Friday 17 February 2023 at 8pm.

 

Applicants will be informed about the outcome of their application by Friday 17 March 2023.

 

Successful Applicants will be awarded their funding at the AU Pacific Child Wellbeing Conference in late March 2023.

 

Initiatives will be run from April 2023 to September 2023.

 

Reporting back on community/family led initiatives due October 2023.

 

Community Impact Showcase planned for early December 2023.

Pacific communities and family groups across Aotearoa are invited to apply for the My Baby’s Village Community Fund. 

 

To be eligible for this funding, applicants must: 

  • Be of Pacific descent. 
  • Be a citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand. 
  • Represent at least one of the following: 
    • a church group 
    • a sports group 
    • a family group 
    • an Aoga amata / Akoteu / Akoga kamata / Aoga
    • a social group focused on improving outcomes related to any of the four priority areas.
  • Be delivering a new, unfunded initiative focused on improving outcomes related to any one of the four priority areas detailed above. 

To be considered ideas/initiatives/projects must focus on one or more of the four priority areas.  

  • Pacific infant care. 
  • Strengthening family relationships. 
  • Child and family health and wellbeing. 
  • Building community/village support systems for children and their families. 

Each application can request up to $5,000.00.

  • Initiatives that benefit or support only one Individual. 
  • Initiatives that are not aligned with the priority areas of the fund. 
  • For profit activities. 
  • Academic Research and academic activities. 
  • Wages, salaries, infrastructure, assets, capital expenditure. 
  • Debt repayment and debt services. 
  • Applications from outside Aotearoa.
  • Projects that are in progress and receiving funding.
  • Projects delivered by government funded providers and agencies.

All community groups that receive funding will be required to provide a report at the completion of their initiative.

Reporting can be submitted in various forms such as written submission, talanoa or video presentation.

Does the initiative align to one or more of the four focus areas:   

  • Pacific infant care.   
  • Strengthening family relationships.   
  • Child and family health and wellbeing   
  • Building community/village support systems for children and their families.  
 Y/N  
Is this idea or initiative a community-led solution that responds to an identified need? (e.g., a need relating to one or more of the four priority areas) Y/N  
Have clear, achievable, relevant outcomes for this idea or initiative been described? Y/N  
Are these outcomes achievable based on your description of how they will be achieved?
 Y/N  
Is it likely that this idea or initiative can be achieved using the budget requested? Y/N  
Does this idea or initiative lead from a Pacific worldview?    Y/N  
Are fanau and family at the centre of this idea or initiative and likely to experience positive change as a result?    Y/N  
Could other communities and family groups benefit from this idea or initiative?   Y/N