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Our thoughts are with those who lost loved ones and friends on March 15 2019. We also send love to those injured, to the emergency services that responded and to the residents of our city. As-Salaam-Alaikum.

As of March 5th, we have distributed $9.27M of the $11M we have received. Please read on to learn more about our work distributing the donations.

We continue to collect funds for both our Education and Community Support Funds. Once the final distributions are made from the Victim’s Fund, it will be closed.

Our Independent Advisor, Raf Manji, was interviewed by RNZ March 6, 2020

Meet our next Women’s Fund award recipient! Lynette Diaz aims to support and foster a community of women empowerment through music. She’s producing a legacy podcast series focused on female musicians with the aim of capturing their powerful stories before they’re lost. Make sure you keep an eye on her website so you can have a listen: www.lynettediaz.com

Join us in congratulating Lynette on her award and saying thank you to all the Women’s Fund donors who are supporting female change-makers in Ōtautahi! Once again we’d like to do a big shout out to @Hotel Montreal for providing the stunning location for the film shoot.

What a day! Thanks to the generosity of the All Blacks 7s team we got to give fifty Christchurch kids the chance of a lifetime. A skills training session with the team.

So many happy faces.

Huge thanks to the #allblacks7s for making it such a spectacular afternoon.  

Special mention to Mondelez International for the post training treat! Also a huge thanks to The Crusaders for lending us some balls.

Youth Philanthropy Programme, Generation Give, is expanding into Christchurch in March after a successful pilot programme in Queenstown in 2019. The organisation responsible for the programme, Youth Philanthropy New Zealand (YPNZ), is partnering with The Christchurch Foundation to deliver the programme. The Hon. Lianne Dalziel, Mayor of Christchurch, is the programme's patron.

Earlier this week we signed a collaboration agreement with Lincoln University. It is early days in our collaboration but the two entities aim to work closely to develop initiatives that benefit greater Christchurch and the Canterbury region.

Lianne Dalziel, Mayor of Christchurch and a Christchurch Foundation trustee, talks about the changing environment in Christchurch and how the Foundation enables people to give to causes they believe in.

Meet Cate Grace, storyteller and team coordinator of Humans of Christchurch Ōtautahi.

Cate was one of our first inspirational wahine to receive a grant from the Women’s Fund. The grant has helped Cate interview more wāhine toa, and has also helped pay for a beautiful exhibition currently running in Tūranga until 1 February – learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1176953099177352/ and go check it out!

A special thank you to @Hotel Montreal for providing the stunning location for our film shoot, and a huge thank you to all of our Women’s Fund donors – you are providing ongoing support to our next generation of female leaders in our city.

On the 19th of December we completed our AGM, and celebrated what was a significant second year for The Christchurch Foundation.

Click to see the joint Chair and CE's report and to download a copy of our Annual Report.

Andrew was one of our founding Trustees and has established an endowment fund to give to the causes he cares about most. Click the link to view a short video of Andrew talking about his commitment.

March 15 is etched in all our memories. Within hours of the attacks the Mayor and the Prime Minister asked The Foundation to act on their behalf to collect funds for the victims. The Our People, Our City Fund was launched on March 16th.

We have worked hard to make it easier for generous people, businesses and countries from around the world to support those impacted by the attacks. Read more here about how the funds will be distributed.