2023–2024
MAS Foundation Community Koha
Ringa Raupā/ Do-er
Program/ Initiative
Total Amount
Te Oranga Ki Ōtakou
Te Oranga Ki Ōtako (TOKO’s) main initiative is to be a physical embodiment of a home away from home for those tauira near and far. They endeavour to increase learning opportunities to teach our tauira the things that make Māori – Māori and hope to effect a more positive outlook of Māoridom and its value by the Otago Medical School. Te Reo Kia Ora is a Te Reo 8-session specialised Māori language health programme directed towards supporting Māori aspirations of increasing the use and understanding of Te Reo Māori for tauira (students) in health professional programmes in the clinical environment. It is an attempt to make cultural redress and behavioural change in our developing health system by implementing change - first with tauira. By doing this, we aim to promote Te Reo specific to a health context, to normalise its use and support medical students and staff to utilise Te Reo Māori in their engagement with whānau.
Total Amount$5,000
$5,000
Ngā Waihua o Paerangi Trust
Funding to support the Anei Tata E! Symposium, which was hosted by Ngāti Rangi in Ohakune 26 to 27 September 2023, as a celebration of iwi success. Anei Tata E! provided an opportunity to develop and foster collaboration, learning, innovation, and shared leadership to build wellbeing. The initiative focused on hosting a range of keynote speakers, many of them Ngāti Rangi, to share their passions and lived experience. By drawing on expertise within the community and not just worldclass speakers, Ngāti Rangi wanted to empower their community to know they can believe in their own potential.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Te Kurahuna
As the kaitiaki of Mahi a Atua, Te Kurahuna specialises in both the initial training, and the ongoing professional and personal development of the Mataora workforce. This funding will help to develop a proposal for government agency funding for the delivery of the unique Niwareka training informed by mātauranga Māori. The training will be delivered to 100 nursing and non-regulated health kaimahi. Funding will also be used for evaluation and research to investigate the barriers preventing Te Kurahuna from contributing to workforce capability and capacity building in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Te Atawhai o Te Ao Charitable Trust (Māori Coalition – FASD Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder)
Te Atawhai o Te Ao is an independent Māori research institute for environment and health. This wānanga is for the Maui tamariki, those who challenge us as parents, grandparents and whānau whānui. Drawing on our own mātauranga and whānau experiences, how do we support the Maui tamariki, rangatahi, pakeke and their whānau ora? This wānanga is about the joy, the creativity, the exploring nature and innovation of haututū. There are plenty of examples from whakapapa and kōrero of the explorers, the innovators and those who challenge us to create new ways of doing things.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
2023–2024
MAS Foundation Partnership Grants
Ringa Raupā/ Do-er
Program/ Initiative
Total Amount
Hikurangi Enterprise Limited
Hikurangi Enterprises Limited’s vision is ‘healthy wealthy whānau and whenua’. The purpose of the Whare Ora initiative is to provide healthy, affordable and accessible housing solutions to local residents in Te Tairawhiti. It is a Kaupapa Māori circular housing model that includes local economic development and self-determination for Māori, leading climate responses. This funding will be used for an evaluation framework to support the holistic value created by Whare Ora to enable other Māori communities to apply the model, and to get local buy-in. The funding will also be used to support organisational infrastructure, building capability, and community engagement and development.
Total Amount$100,000
$100,000
Te Roopu Waiora Trust: Tangata Turi Aotearoa
Tāngata Turi (Māori deaf) applied for funds to hold a national Māori deaf hui in July 2023, to establish a collective forum to come together and unite. The purpose was to strengthen leadership and better forward plan as a community. It would also help to build knowledge and belonging to Te Ao Māori, to help health services understand and engage better with tāngata turi, and work with government agencies to inform them of Tāngata Turi needs and solutions.
Total Amount$50,000
$50,000
Tongan Society South Canterbury
MAS Foundation supports the kaupapa of the Tongan Society South Canterbury to deliver its Re-KAVA-Ring family-centred and youth programmes. The support includes the ngāue of the newly recruited Coordinator, online technological support via the development of its first website, capacity and capability building opportunities for staff and trustees, and business sustainability planning.
Total Amount$203,500
$203,500
Te Hurihanga ō Rangatahi
To build a therapeutic rongoā garden enhancing the connection to taiao (the environment). Te Hurihanga ō Rangatahi About Us | Youth Hub CHCH is a village of wellbeing-focused services with a vision to enable all young people in Ōtautahi the opportunity to lead healthy, safe and valued lives, fulfilling their potential and vibrantly contributing to their community.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Tātau
Funding to support the Whakapapa Project, which is a community-led initiative that aims to work directly with whānau engaged in the gang community to unpack the current difficulties whānau are facing to gain a better understanding of whānau needs and supports.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Papatūānuku Charitable Trust
Advancement of Te Ao Hou wānanga, a successful community-led co-designed programme embedding te ao Māori innovation. It included a business case review to identify options for future sustainability planning, alongside ongoing evaluation and impact measurement.
Total Amount$236,000
$236,000
Rongopai House Community Trust
Sustaining their efforts in supporting Thriving Whānau, Thriving Communities. The focus of this funding is on supporting a sustainable structure to continue delivering programmes that enhance health and wellbeing in the Far North region, specifically Kaitaia. Rongopai House, a registered charity, was established with the goal of creating a wellness centre, a haven for whānau seeking refuge from violence, addiction, and/or sexual abuse. As a community-led organisation, it offers a fresh start and a place of hope in the Far North, irrespective of faith, religion, or cultural belief.
Total Amount$235,000
$235,000
Kakala Malie Incorporated Society
A start-up programme inspired by previous positive learning experiences and research of Tongan and Pacific families in South Auckland. The Fatu Lālanga project comprises of a combination of inter-generational workshops, fono and a 2-day retreat to help shift the inequities and disparities to a resilient and thriving fatu lālanga for Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand. This project is called ‘Fatu lālanga: In the spirit of collective wellbeing' (Fatu Lālanga) and encapsulates the lālanga (weaving) of knowledge and practices from the heart, for the hauora and betterment of Pacific peoples. The primary purpose of this project is to empower the local holistic wellbeing needs of Pacific learners and families involved in building quality education and care in health
Total Amount$91,000
$91,000
Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Association (PADA)
The funding will be used to train Māori and Pasifika educators recruited from the unregulated workforce, with lived experience of maternal mental health issues and/or who have participated in Hapūtanga wānanga to increase equitable outcomes for Māori whānau and Pasifika aiga/kāinga.
Total Amount$484,000
$484,000
Mana Inc
Mana Inc creates and delivers unique wānanga (workshops) that inspire, enhance and empower whānau and communities in Papakura to be the best version of themselves. The funding will support and strengthen the ‘backbone’ of Mana Inc for a one-year period.
Total Amount$184,000
$184,000
2022–2023
MAS Foundation Partnership Grants
Ringa Raupā/ Do-er
Program/ Initiative
Total Amount
Katoa Limited & Wairoa Te Ohonga Ake Charitable Trust
Supporting and developing the future generation to reduce health and wellbeing inequities and break the mould for rangatahi in Te Wairoa to become our future leaders.
Total Amount$526,000
$526,000
Te Roopu Waiora Trust
Pae Huarahi examines mātauranga Māori through the realms of disability. This initiative explores tensions between western disability concepts and Te Āo Māori, co-creating solutions with participants. Pae Huarahi is a trust building journey; expanding knowledge, connections and competencies of staff at all levels of the health and disability sector, alongside whānau. Te Roopu Waiora is developing Pae Huarahi as a three-part series, primarily online, with a digital application for immediate and continued workforce support.
Total Amount$50,000
$50,000
2022–2023
MAS Foundation Community Koha
Ringa Raupā/ Do-er
Program/ Initiative
Total Amount
Te Kurahuna Limited
Rangi Mātāwai wānanga working to improve the outcomes for ‘kaimahi oranga’ workforce wellbeing and healing from burnout while serving others during the pandemic.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Te Whare Aitu Trust
Pilot and deliver Te Akaaka Mātua wellness plan to those who have been affected by COVID restrictions and lockdowns including the non-regulated workforce who have delivered front line services to the community over the past two years.
Total Amount$20,000
$20,000
Institute of Education / Te Kura o Te Mātauranga, Massey University / Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa
Research: Wellbeing and learning of Pasifika children and young people with disabilities and their families in the pandemic context.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Maia Dreams Limited - Confident Me Programme
The Confident Me programme aims to equip students with life strategies and coping tools for better wellness. MAS Foundation is supporting Māia Dreams to become a registered charity (legal fees, business sustainability costs and business mentorship).
Total Amount$10,000
$10,000
Te Kāhui Manukura o Kai Ora (National Māori Dietitians Rōpū of Aotearoa)
This community koha for holding a noho marae strategic planning, whakawhanaungatanga and manaakitanga at Mataatua Marae, Tāmaki Makaurau for Te Kāhui Manukura o Kai Ora national members as a newly formed incorporated society. Support given to Te Kāhui Manukura o Kai Ora will enhance nutrition and dietetic support that are culturally relevant and appropriate. This rōpū was driven and set up by Māori dietitians as a way of providing a safe space for members to support each other in personal and professional development in Te Ao Māori as Māori dietitians.
Total Amount$5,000
$5,000
Māori in Radiation Oncology (MiRO)
MiRO aims to build workforce capability for Māori in Radiation Oncology (MiRO) who are seeking support for setting up and expanding their rōpū and, consequently, the overall reach of their mahi. They have already taken several significant steps to making necessary improvements towards Māori health equity within radiation oncology and are now at a point where they are reaching out for funding to continue this important mahi. The funding will contribute to establish this rōpū, Māori in Radiation Oncology, legally as a non-profit Incorporated Society. The funding will also help build the MiRO brand and website to support whanaungatanga amongst group members as well as key stakeholders such as cancer specialists, universities, and government organisations. The funds will also support professional development workshops for rōpū members, strengthening the Māori workforce as well as providing a platform for kaimahi Māori to hononga and tautoko one another whilst driving meaningful change for Māori within radiation oncology and eliminating institutional racism.
Total Amount$11,200
$11,200
The Stroke Foundation of New Zealand
MAS Foundation supports the Stroke Foundation Collective Impact Community Co-Design project. This involves undertaking a resource re-design process with tangata whenua, (and then with Pacific and Asian communities), who are most at risk of stroke. Funding from MAS Foundation supports the ‘Initiate Actions’ phase of the collective impact to create a change approach which includes understanding the community landscape and key players, identifying existing work in progress, gathering baseline data, and creating an overarching governance structure.
Total Amount$24,200
$24,200
International Kiwi Consultants Limited – Tapa Talanoa Co-designing series
MAS Foundation and J R McKenzie support IK Consultants to deliver phases one and two of the Ngatu initiative (comprising of three phrases in total). Phase One: Host an annual workshop conference event in Auckland to bring Tongan women together and share information (research and expertise) and knowledge (insights, evidence). Phase Two: Ongoing community activation (consultation) engagement sessions to connect with 7x Auckland-based, Tongan women Ngatu exchange or Indigenous Tongan Ngatu-making groups between February to September 2023. (Funding for phase three, an innovation component, will be sought from other sources). The key outcomes of the Ngatu initiative are to firstly raise awareness of the potential impact Ngatu (Tapa) women-led indigenous knowledge and wealth system for improving collaboration and information sharing by and for Tongan women worldwide. Secondly to empower Pasifika communities to scale up indigenous knowledge and wealth systems utilising disruptive technology.
Total Amount$25,000
$25,000
Ora Toa Primary Healthcare Organisation - Te Runanga O Toa Rangatira
Improving the dental health outcomes for expectant mothers and their children and providing newborn babies with a better start to life.
Total Amount$5,000
$5,000
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