The festive season can be a tough time for the most marginalised in local communities and local generosity and care can make a real difference. While we encourage giving at any time of year, giving through your local community foundation at this time of year is smart and fulfilling, in several ways:
Ultimately, giving through your local community foundation is a way to make this holiday season more meaningful and impactful, centering connectedness, kindness and community at the heart of your giving. Gifts, big and small, are all welcome. Contact your local community foundation today to find out how you can make your giving smarter, more meaningful and more fulfilling this silly season.
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2023
04 Aug 2025
The Board of CFANZ is delighted to announce that Eleanor Cater has been appointed as our Acting Chief Executive Officer. Eleanor has played a highly influential role in our management team since 2017, most recently as Director of Philanthropy and Membership Services and we are thrilled to have her move into this important position.
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Behind much of what helps Tāmaki Makaurau thrive, you’ll find legacy giving. These are gifts that don’t always make headlines but make a lasting difference. They come from people thinking not just about today, but about tomorrow – the city their grandchildren will grow up in, the opportunities they want to share with others, and the values they want to live on into the future...
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So much has been written and debated about the “great wealth transfer”, the burgeoning phenomenon that will see the baby boomer wealth changing hands over the next 25 years. It’s an outsized bulge of generational wealth that the world has never seen in size and scale before, and, here in New Zealand, it’ll see NZ$1.2 trillion in earnings, property, and other financial assets changing hands as the older generation passes on. It turns out there’s another really interesting shift going on as well...
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