“Together we can do so much…”
Helen Keller
Our Partner Schools
Papakura High School
Mangere College
William Colenso College
Hawke's Bay School for Teen Parents
Tamatea High School
Karamū High School
Flaxmere College
2021 Tāwai Takapiri Whānau Wānanga, Lake Taupō
Our Funding Partners
Tāwai Takapiri Connect Futures NZ is grateful for the support of our current funding partners, all of whom share a passion for the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.
These philanthropic organisations represent humble, hard-working, New Zealand pioneers all of whom have shaped the character of our proud country and its people.
We appreciate the opportunities for mahitahi, to stand alongside these organisations in support of their commitment to the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ngā mihi nui.
JOYCE FISHER CHARITABLE TRUST
The Joyce Fisher Charitable Trust strives to make New Zealand a better place by providing you New Zealanders with opportunities that enhance their leadership skills and values and, in turn, create community role models and future leaders.
The Fletcher Trust
The Fletcher Trust has a strong historical connection to the development of New Zealand. In its commitment to creative philanthropy, the Trust informs and supports New Zealanders to continue the best traditions of educational, social, cultural and business innovation www.fletchertrust.co.nz
TODD FOUNDATION
As one of New Zealand's oldest family foundations, the Todd Foundation continues a family legacy of generosity. As a family foundation, trustees have the opportunity to commit to building long-term community partnerships that create lasting system change in Aotearoa society. The Todd Foundation stands on principles of reducing exclusion and disadvantage; building inclusiveness; strengthening communities; Mana Māori; respectful relationships; and listening and learning.
WAKA PACIFIC TRUST
Waka Pacific Trust owns and operates Due Drop Events Centre, Vector Wero Whitewater and Momentum Hub. Through these businesses and facilities of national significance, the Trust provides financial resources, venue spaces and expertise which support school and community programmes designed to celebrate, transform and enrich people's lives.
ALTERNO FOUNDATION
Alterno is a privately-funded charitable foundation that supports projects and people that have the potential to make our communities better places for the people who grow up in them. Alterno is interested in partnering with organisations that enable people to be healthier, fitter, better-educated and more productive!
Tāwai Takapiri Whānau Wānanga
2020 - Napier
Tāwai Tākapiri host Whānau Wānanga two-day off-site events that give member school Tumuaki and Community Co-ordinators an opportunity to network and share their community engagement kaupapa learnings.
Whānau look forward to the Tāwai Takapiri Wānanga as an inspirational source of motivation, encouragement, and support.
2020 & 2021 Wānanga were kindly supported by Alterno Foundation, The Fletcher Trust and Joyce Fisher Charitable Trust.
Our Supporters
To all of you, kia ora koutou - thank you.
INHIVE GLOBAL
InHive’s network building approach focuses on networks created by re-engaging those already around them – those in their hive – including former students, alumni and past programme participants.
Ako mātātupu: Teach First NZ
Ako Mātātupu Teach First NZ has a vision to ensure all children in Aotearoa New Zealand fulfill their potential. The organisation works to achieve this by addressing the systemic causes of educational inequality by recruiting great people to join an immersive, two-year, employment-based leadership development and initial teacher education programme, and supporting them to teach in a school serving a low-income community.
PWC
Over and above its traditional commercial service offerings, PwC New Zealand has a strong industry focus, with multi-discipline teams dedicated to key industry groups in both global and national markets. For their clients, this means the best local knowledge combined with the broadest global experience.
Chapman Tripp
Chapman Tripp is New Zealand’s leading full service commercial law firm which a special interest in strategic philanthropy and social enterprise in Aotearoa.
Our Team
Jay Allnutt
TRUSTEE
As current Managing Director of Māia Centre for Social Justice and Education, and former CEO of Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ, Jay has traveled the well-worn path of start-up NGOs in the education sector so brings daily doses of inspiration and sage advice to the Tāwai Takapiri Connect Futures table.
Hailing from in the UK, Jay started his journey in the education sector as a teacher before commencing his career with Teach For All UK and eventually moving to Aotearoa in 2015 to lead the establishment of the then fledgling organisation, Teach First NZ.
Ako Mātātupu Teach First NZ has a vision to ensure all rangatahi in Aotearoa New Zealand fulfill their potential. The team works to achieve this by addressing the systemic causes of educational inequality.
Māia's Hustle Network supports young people who left school before the end of Year 13 as a result of Covid-19.
There are many synergies between the visions of Māia, Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ and Tāwai Takapiri Connect Futures NZ - all three organisations driven by social justice values and the desire for young people of Aotearoa to achieve their potential as a result of having access to equal opportunities during their school years.
Edna Novak
TRUSTEE
Edna is a US-born New Zealander who spends a significant amount of time travelling in her role as Head of Asia Pacific for Teach For All, an organisation which exists to expand educational opportunity around the world by increasing and accelerating the impact of social enterprises cultivating change leadership.
Edna works alongside young people from low socio-economic regions throughout Asia and has seen, firsthand, on many occasions the positive impacts made possible when young people have the opportunity to connect with role models who not only inspire them but, most importantly, who they are able to relate to.