#Unite20 is a fundraising platform

Designed to help many frontline charities who are providing necessary services due to the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond. 

We’re asking everyone who can, to donate $20 or whatever you can afford, to help a frontline charity

• United Way New Zealand research is now showing that over 98% of Kiwi charities have been directly affected by Covid-19 and 88% of charities are in need if additional financial support
• Charities are expecting demand to continue to grow for another 6-12 months.

100% of your donation (less a card processing fee), goes directly to Frontline Community Charities in need of financial support. You can also choose which charities to support.

TO DONATE PLEASE CLICK HERE 

All charities have been identified for their hard work in the community by United Way's online COVID-19 community need surveys and verified by United Way's staff and community volunteers as requiring urgent support

Charities are the backbone of our communities.

Results from the United Way NZ survey, with over 390 responses from nationwide charities, show that 98% of community charities have been directly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and 74% of the charities are in need of additional finances so they can support their communities.  

United Way (NZ) are working to advocate and obtain additional support for charities around New Zealand, especially for the next 6-12 months as we feel the effects in communities from COVID-19.

• If you would like to regularly donate to the United Way COVID-19 Quick Response fund, please click on the box in the top left hand corner of this page.
• If you want funding to go to a specific region in NZ, please put this in the comments.
• If you would like to donate to the Christmas Shoebox Appeal, every $10 supports you with a special box to fill and support to get this to a child in need 

We are all in this together, Kia kaha.

About Us:

The United Way (NZ) Charitable Trust is an organisation who has connected donors with community for the last 45 years, with our largest donor being The Tindall Foundation, who we have worked with for 21 years. United Way (NZ) has helped over 3000 community charities through its community grants scheme. We have in depth knowledge about community needs in New Zealand. 

United Way (NZ) works efficiently and effectively with our networks to promptly distribute the donations received. We engage our United Way volunteers with our transparent processes, to ensure donations meet the needs in the community.

*United Way (NZ) donations are securely processed by Stripe, the e-commerce platform behind millions of businesses and charities worldwide.

Drug-Arm Christchurch are on the frontline with other community organisations helping homeless people in the Canterbury region. United Way NZ's recent donations to Drug-Arm have been very well received  in this very important time. We thank them for the work they are doing for the vulnerable and marginalised.

Drug-Arms mission is...

We believe everyone has a purpose, hope and a future.

We want to help them find or reconnect with this and overcome things that get in the way

Thank you to The Tindall Foundation for donating to the COVID-19 Quick Response Fund. This has allowed United Way to already distribute $125,000 to the following community charities in need of Financial assistance due to the COVID-19 Outbreak. 

29 Charities have been helped through this fund to date: 

1. Life to the Max in Whanganui - Support for young people and families in need.
2. Te Ora Hou Whanganui - Youth and family support.
3. Birthright Whanganui - Supporting single parent families in need.
4. Wai Ora Christian Community Trust in Whanganui - Providing food, shelter and essentials to families and have opened their orchard to those in need.
5. Manawatu Rural Support Services - Supporting families in the rural community who are dealing with a drought as well as COVID-19.
6. Housing Advice Centre in Manawatu - Working right across the community to help individuals and families with a housing needs.
7. Just Zilch - Manawatu Food Rescue, working with local food banks during level 4 and supporting homeless people.
8. Palmerston North Neighbourhood Support - Connecting neighbours and people in the community who are: both lonely and frightened, supporting elderly parents, disabled or vulnerable family members (mental health issues), have cancer & needing medication and people needing food and essentials.
9. Waimate Link in South Canterbury - Connecting families and people and taking Calls for Civil Defence Communitylinkwaimate.org.nz.
10. Fale Pasifika o Aoraki in South Canterbury - Providing support packages and information to the local Pacific Island community – classed as an essential service presently and working from Community House. Looking after over 200 families with food packages.
11. Centrecare Counselling Waimate - Providing Counselling to families and people, who are in need of mental health and well-being support.
12. Drug Arm Canterbury Working with community organisations to help the Homeless, vulnerable and marginalised.
13. English Language Partners Canterbury - Supporting new immigrant and refugee families. Running online classes and providing phone support for families and home-based learners. They currently have 91 learners online which has increased from 49 within a week.
14. Foodbank Canterbury - As an essential service organisation who are providing food to families and community organisations.
15. The Hope Community Trust Canterbury - Providing a food bank and have Counselors providing support online services.
16. Canterbury Mens Centre - Supporting men in Canterbury and their family relationships.
17. Birthright Canterbury Trust - Supporting single parent families and their children. Families who are already isolated having no family supports and many rely on Birthright workers for support.
18. English Language partners Otago - Helping refugee and new immigrants navigate through COVID-19. In Dunedin ELP now has 128 learners online, which was 86 in the previous week.
19. KiwiHarvest Otago - Helping distribute food to families and community groups. Donations go to fuel costs and vehicle costs which have risen due to the increase in demand.
20. Pregnancy Help Dunedin - Providing practical support to families and their babies by sending packages out via courier.
21. Youthline Otago - Helpline and community connection with youth.
22. Corstorphine Community Hub in Otago - Running a Food share - 24 families (with 104 in total), adults and children receiving help. Working with Kiwiharvest for supplies for low-income families.
23. Garden to Table Dunedin - Helping children and families with online resources for cooking and growing food and support co-ordinators helping with community connections.
24. Volunteering Otago Trust - Working with Civil Defense to provide services for families and communities in need.
25. Southland Youth One Stop Shop - Providing social services remotely by phone & online with youth coaches, transition coaches, and case manager working from home.
26. Able Charitable Trust (Southern Family Support) - An essential service that covers all of Southland. Very busy during lockdown. Preparing/delivering food parcels, creating pod casts for mental well being, remote counselling, etc.
27. Tuatapere Community Worker Support Trust - Arranging shopping, food parcels. High level of volunteer assistance.
28. Youthline Southland - Helpline and community connection with youth.
29. English Language Partners Southland - Helping refugee and new immigrants navigate through COVID-19. In Southland ELP now 43 online learners, which was 18 the previous week.

Still the need within our community continues, please donate to this fund so we can help further charities applying for assistance.

How will COVID-19 affect our community services?

Charities are the backbone of our communities when crisis strikes. The nonprofit industry alone employs over 100,000 workers, representing over 4.4 percent of New Zealand's GDP and manages over $53 billion assets.

Results from the United Way NZ survey of 200+ nationwide frontline charities, show that 95% of charities have been directly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Traditional funding streams for charities have been drastically affected. This is where we need your help. Donations can be made to Charities to support their frontline services here.

We are all in this together.

Kia kaha. 

Teresa Moore
C.E.O of United Way (NZ)

The Charity Ball of 2020, has been postponed until Friday 9th October due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Charity Ball of 2020 is to be held at KPMG conference rooms overlooking Auckland's viaduct harbour. 

Join United Way NZ in a fun night of music and art! Raise funds and enjoy yourself at the art exhibition and silent auction.

Drinks and refreshments will be available throughout the night with live music by Anabac and an Art Exhibition and auction by Xabilities

Through the generous donations of you and your workplace, United Way NZ will be supporting charities championing youth well-being & suicide prevention. 

Proceeds go to youth charities: The Crescendo Trust Of Aotearoa, Youth In Transition, YES Disability Resource Centre, United Way's Youth fund and Reading Oasis literacy programme.

For tickets please visit https://viaduct-fundraiser.eventbrite.co.nz

1022 Box of Presents where distributed thanks to the following sponsors of the United Way NZ 2019 Christmas Shoebox Campaign

AIA 
Deloitte 
Chubb Insurance 
Downer
Dow NZ
Grant Thornton 
Cavell Leitch
NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Valocity Global
Spark
Ignite Architects
The Factory
Crombie Lockwood
Marsh Insurance
Otago Polytechnic
Polson Higgs
MTF Finance
Forsyth Barr
US Consulate
Ara Institute 
Gallagher Bassett NZ Ltd 
Aderant
Kohler NZ
Zumba ladies from ZLAB & ZSWAGG
Storage King
The Engine
Software by Catalyser
Clever Social
The Crate - for Storage area 

On behalf of the children who received the boxes of presents,

we would like to thank you all for wonderful contributions and your kindness 

United Way NZ would like to thank the companies who helped us put together 240 boxes of presents, for children who would otherwise be going without this Christmas.

A special thanks to the staff of:

Grant Thornton,

Kohler NZ,

Pitney Bowes,

Chubb Insurance,

Ignite Architecture and

Natures Bounty.

United Way NZ is working with Budgeting & Family Support Services, who operate in Mangere, Otara & Tuakau, to distribute the presents to families experiencing hardship.