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Quiet Achievers is a website focussed on identity exploration and features interviews with a diverse range of Asian-Australians.
Interactive Instruments! Using conductive paint to turn art into synthesisers.
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Tempest Collective is a natural-wax based solid cologne. It contains no alcohol, or chemicals to fill out the cologne.
'Six Cents' is an artist run free art and literature publication. We aim to amplify new voices in Aotearoa.
You might be referred to us, we might have reached out to you, or you might have filled out this form. Either way, we'll take a look at your work and be in touch as soon as possible!
f we're interested in your organisation or project, we will get in touch with you to set up a meeting. In this meeting we'll see if you're a good fit and ask you more questions about your project, the impact you hope to make, and how we might work together.
If we are interested in funding your project, we will pitch it back to our Investment Committee who will make the final decision. If we aren't going to fund you, we will give you some of the key reasons why, and provide any feedback.
If the Investment Committee gives us a 'yes', we will work on an offer letter for you. If you're happy with this letter, you sign it and we move forward with getting the funds to you so you can create magic.
Now that you've been funded, you will join our community of protostars and organisations who are making the universe a better place.
We believe in trust-based philanthropy and we want you and your team to be able to focus on making a positive impact – not on creating complicated reports that will only be skimmed over once. Instead, we ask that after your project is complete, you touch base with us so we can organise a call and chat about how your project went, any learnings or feedback, and explore ways we can continue working together in future.
From the application form to our offer letter, term sheet and agreement we keep everything as simple as possible so that we can execute and move things along quickly. We don't believe that a grant application should take you days or weeks to complete – our form takes less than 30 minutes to fill out. We also aim to get back to you within four weeks about the outcome of your application to eliminate anxiety and ambiguity.
We trust that the organisations and projects we fund know what they need and how they can best do that work. So once we decide to invest, we let you do that work and we don't get in your way. In saying that, we also know that you might need extra support to actualise your goals, scale your impact, or become financially sustainable, so we'll support you with those goals as well.
We don't believe that grant applications should be multi-month affairs. We want you to know whether you've got the funds to do your project as soon as possible. That's why we aim to get through every application within one month from first contact to offer. Please keep in mind that the Foundation team consists of two people, so during busier periods this may take the full month.
In the past we have funded a robotics tournament in Melbourne, a festival for young people and aspiring changemakers in Wellington, and an impact-led jobs website in Australia.
Unfortunately given the size of our fund, we cannot yet provide multi-year untied funding for projects or organisations. It's something we want to explore in the future though!
We believe in trust-based philanthropy and we want you and your team to be able to focus on making a positive impact – not on creating complicated reports that will only be skimmed over once. Instead, we ask that after your project is complete, you touch base with us so we can organise a call and chat about how your project went, any learnings or feedback, and explore ways we can continue working together in future.
At this stage we only invest in AU/NZ projects working to unleash creativity in young people at scale.
Yes you can. As long as you are eligible for Protostars, and your project meets the requirements for project funding, you can apply for both.
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