Emma Rankin

The Catalytic community grant round for 2021 opens in October! Applications can be submitted between the 1st and 31st of October. Please check out our community page on our website for more details....

Priority areas for our community grants are:

• Whanau/Family
• Early Years Support
• Youth Development
• Accommodation / Housing
• Community Services
• Refugee, Migrant and Cross-Cultural Communities
• Skill Development / Training / Financial Literacy

The United Way grants round for the 2018/2019 year is now open! Applications can be submitted between the 1st and 31st of October. Please check out our website for more details >> https://www.unitedway.org.nz/community_grants

United Way would like to say a big congratulations to Life Education Trust for 20 years of valuable work in the Heartland Otago/Southland region! We are proud to support the excellent work you do!

Congratulations!

United Way would like to say a big congratulations to Life Education Trust for 20 years of valuable work in the Heartland Otago/Southland region! We are proud to support the excellent work you do!

Congratulations!

Welcome to our new United Way New Zealand Chief Executive, Teresa Moore!

In 2018 Teresa took on the role and is determined to build on the foundations that United Way has created in New Zealand over the last 44 years.

Teresa is passionate about strengthening our communities. She will utilise her strategic planning, fundraising, marketing and managerial skills to ensure United Way New Zealand acts as a successful conduit between the needs in our communities and the Corporate Social Responsibility requirements in our business sector.

Educated in New Zealand, Teresa's formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Science from the University of Auckland and a Master of Management from Massey University.

Teresa comes from an entrepreneurial background, establishing a tourism business in NZ and Tonga when she was 26, managing local & international companies, building organisations capacity through raising venture capital and working with a variety of governance boards. Her varied career even includes working as a pioneering marine scientist in sub-Antarctic waters.

After finishing her Master’s thesis about ‘How sustainable solar energy is for NZ’ Teresa became increasingly aware of the growing social needs within our communities. Teresa went onto work in the Not for Profit sector, with the Sustainable Electricity Association of NZ, and later managed a not for profit organisation, which concentrated on the welfare of autistic children and their families. These positions involved advocating to Government about social needs within our communities.

Teresa believes in walking the talk and has a variety of voluntary roles including being an executive member of her local charity, the Long Bay Okura Great Park Society.

United Way is proud to support the Graeme Dingle Foundation in Southland! Can you help them also?
The Foundation is in need of an Apple Mac Book to plan their lessons and take to schools to show videos when required. If you would like to help please submit your details to www.unitedway.org.nz/contact, and be part of supporting our young people.

It's excellent to see in this article published by Stuff.co.nz, members of the Sikh community making a difference to those in need in Hamilton! Through serving each other and offering a helping hand when needed, we can make our communities brighter places for everyone. 

United Way strives to do this all across Aotearoa New Zealand through directing the generous gifts of our donors to where in the local community it is most needed.

(cover picture courtesy of Dominico Zapata/STUFF)

Waitomo Papakainga is one of many non-government organisations servicing and  supporting whanau in social services, education and so much more, within our Northland communities.

Waitomo Papakainga has been operating in Kaitaia for over 20 years.

United Way New Zealand are proud to support the Waitomo Papakainga Development Society and all the work they do for the people in and around Kaitaia.

United Way would like to introduce our Chairman of the Board, John Gallaher. Thank you, John, for your work in helping us build united communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

John joined Forsyth Barr Dunedin in 1985. He has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry in investment advising, commercial and chartered accounting, management and banking.

John is an Authorised Financial Adviser (2011) and was accredited as an NZX Advisor in 1992. He has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Otago, majoring in Accountancy and Information Systems. John is an Associate Chartered Accountant, a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand and an Associate of the New Zealand Institute of Management.

John is the Board Chair (since 2011) of United Way New Zealand and is a champion of Advancing the Common Good for all New Zealanders.

Photo featuring children enjoying a summer afternoon at the New Brighton Community Gardens in Canterbury!

United Way New Zealand are proud to support the excellent work the New Brighton Community Gardens does in uniting the community and allowing people of all ages to get out and enjoy the beautiful New Zealand sun!

Thank you Mayor Dave Cull for being our United Way New Zealand Patron and all the work you do for the Otago Community.