Collective Charities

At Inspiring Stories, we’re backing young people to change the world, and increasing access to life-changing experiences and programmes like Future Leaders, Festival for the Future and The Impact Awards.

Digital Future Aotearoa is on a mission to close the digital divide. We inspire tamariki and rangatahi to be creators of digital technology so they can thrive in our increasingly digital world.

Garden to Table is New Zealand's leading food education programme, empowering kids in schools and kura across Aotearoa to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal kai. We take learning out of the classroom and into the garden and kitchen, through weekly sessions linked to the school curriculum.

Take My Hands connects those that have with those that have a need, by rehoming usable medical equipment from NZ to those working with people in need in the Asia Pacific region.

OutLine Aotearoa is a nationwide, all-ages rainbow mental health organisation. OutLine is community-led, providing specialist support to rainbow people, their friends and whānau to achieve positive mental health outcomes.

The Little Miracles Trust is a charity that supports the families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through neonatal intensive care, the transition home, and onwards.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren's services and programmes empower full-time grandparent and whānau caregivers, helping them strengthen their whānau and raising healthy and resilient tamariki and rangatahi to achieve positive outcomes in their lives.

Fair Food is Auckland’s first food rescue charity, working to deliver its vision of “feeding people, not landfill.” This dynamic West Auckland organisation has delivered on its strong environmental and social goals since 2011.

Rare Disorders NZ is the respected voice of rare disorders in New Zealand, and is the only national organisation supporting all New Zealanders who live with a rare condition, and the people who care for them.

The UpsideDowns Education Trust helps kids with Down syndrome learn to talk, read and write by funding speech language therapy. We create empowered, communicative kids.

Bellyful nourishes and connects communities by cooking and delivering free meals to whānau with babies or young children, who need support.

Mixit uses creativity to support young people from former refugee backgrounds to help increase life skills, become stronger human beings, move forward and build their capacities to successfully integrate into our communities.

WELLfed nourishes communities through food & connections. WELLfed is an award-winning adult-education programme based around cooking skills and more. The programme has been delivering free, hands-on classes since 2016 in Porirua.

ADC empowers budding entrepreneurs in Myanmar and Malawi through microfinance. We believe that by supporting entrepreneurs through microfinance, entire communities can work their way out of poverty through business development. They give credit where credit is due.

Our vision is intergenerational period equity in Aotearoa – all period stigma is smashed, everyone has access to menstrual health education + people have access to the period products they want.

Ngā Rangatahi Toa inspires young people once labelled as ‘trouble-makers’ to confidently build a brighter future through intensive creative arts mentoring, mindfulness & yoga, and wrap-around whanau support.