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Top of the South Community Foundation

Community foundation encouraging and enabling generosity in Nelson Tasman. We help donors build their legacy by providing easy options to support the charities and communities of their choice now and forever.

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Community Group Endowment Funds

Endowment funds provide certainty of income

Most not-for-profit organisations rely on a range of fundraising approaches in order to make ends meet – grant applications, donations, member contributions, sale of services and so on. But none of these are guaranteed and reliable. An endowment fund provides certainty of income – and, better still, it can be spent where the need is greatest, and at the discretion of trustees and management.

Build a long-term reliable funding stream

Top of the South Community Foundation is not just a grant-maker. We help charitable groups build a long-term reliable funding stream, by setting up an endowment fund.

The following groups have established relationships with the Foundation to support their long-term funding needs:

  • Brook Waimarama Sanctuary Trust
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters Nelson
  • Age Concern Nelson Tasman

We welcome your donation to these Funds to help grow the future financial security of these organisations. Contact us to find out how.

We also hold endowment funds for:

  • Environment Fund – (Funding for environment and sustainability sector groups)
  • New New Zealander Settlement Assistance Fund
  • Nelson Anaesthesia Education & Research Fund
  • ERRV Special Needs Foundation Inc

As the capital accumulates in the Fund, so will the annual distributions back to the community groups. These distributions may be used entirely at the discretion of the community group, which means that in the future they will have to spend less time chasing funding, and more time focusing on the valuable contributions they make to our community.

 

Support material for Charitable Groups

See ‘Resources for Community Groups’ for useful support material for Charitable Groups.

The latest news

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Interested in making a gift to the community?

To make a gift to a Community Group Endowment Fund

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03 546 6323
0800 777 880
027 856 9752
[email protected]

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c/o Malloch McClean, 315a Hardy St,  Nelson,  7010
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