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Bring back our tracks!

Help restore Banks Peninsula’s walking and biking trails after the February storm

Kura Tāwhiti – Canterbury Community Foundation

For good, 
forever.

Who We Are

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We are the Community Foundation for Christchurch City and the Selwyn and Waimakariri Districts. 

 

Kura Tāwhiti – Canterbury Community Foundation is committed to helping create a thriving and resilient community. We support people and organisations from all walks of life to achieve their philanthropic ambitions, connecting local generosity with the causes that matter most. 

 

Community Foundations take a long-term, community-based view of giving and impact.​ Our smarter giving model ensures that each gift carries the maximum impact now and into the future. 

Smarter Giving 

When you give through Kura Tāwhiti – Canterbury Community Foundation, your gift is carefully invested and grown, generating ongoing support for the causes you care about. 

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Our endowment model means your gift continues to grow over time, while the community benefits from the returns: through grants, scholarships and other programmes that help the people and places you love, now and for generations to come. 

Philanthropy is not just for those with great means...​

...it's for those who mean to do great.

At a glance...

Our grassroots approach means anyone can give. Whether it’s a little or a lot, we work with generous people, families, and businesses to create giving solutions that reflect what matters most to them. 

We make it easy to give with purpose — for now and for the future. Our services include philanthropic advisory, endowment and donor-led giving, trust transfers, pass-through funding, grantmaking, legacy giving, community partnerships, and In Business, For Good. ​

The Christchurch and adjacent communities will benefit from your generosity...

...now and forever. 

Three Pillars of Giving

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People

We are committed to supporting our people, and honouring knowledge, whakapapa and experience. These funds focus on supporting the people living and working in the wider Christchurch community.

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Place

​We are proud of this place, and the legacies we uphold. These funds focus on what makes this region so special: the strength of our communities, the pride we take in our shared identity, and the events and moments that define us. 

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Planet

Caring for our whenua is a responsibility we embrace with enthusiasm, and it takes a collective effort. These funds ensure the natural beauty of Christchurch and its surroundings are preserved for generations to come.

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