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Always open for applications?

No

Eligible districts

Nationwide.

Eligibility

Assessment criteria are evenly weighted between the following criteria:

Alignment with Purpose

This criterion relates to the extent to which the project is aligned with the project round purpose and related community goals and objectives.

Applicants are asked to:
• explain how the project matches the InternetNZ purpose for the community grants round.
• identify any engagement within the community relevant to this project and explain how this project can help address community goals and objectives.

Potential Benefit

With this criterion the committee is assessing the outcomes and potential benefit of the projects, including value for money.

Applicants are asked to:
• give an indication of the expected project outcomes and the impact of those outcomes.
• identify any potential benefits to communities, disadvantaged groups or segments of the population (government, business, users, etc).
• identify how and to what extent this is addressing community needs and how those have been clearly identified.
• identify the project’s relationship to any other related projects.
• describe what makes this project different or innovative.
• identify the project’s ongoing commitment and viability, if any.

Likelihood of Success

With this criterion the committee is trying to understand the likelihood of the project being successfully completed, towards delivering the outcomes and benefits intended.

Applicants are asked to:
• show clearly how this project will be implemented.
• outline your approach and management of any ethical considerations.
• provide evidence of the commitment of others, especially involved or affected groups or communities, including any co-funding or in-kind backing from others and what commitment exists.
• where possible, describe the experience of the people applying, i.e. a successful track record of implementing projects of this kind.
• state what qualifications the applicants have that are relevant to the requirements of the project.
 

Available to groups or individuals?

Groups may apply

History

Community grants are made by InternetNZ to further the objects of the Society. In doing so, grant recipients are, through their work, helping to advance our charitable purpose.

Objectives

Mission and Objects

Our mission is to promote the Internet's benefits and uses and protect its potential. We do that with a cause in mind, that being the Open Internet. In doing this, we act as part of the New Zealand Internet community.

To advance our mission, the main work we do is:
• we provide analysis and commentary on a wide range of Internet Issues, to foster public understanding and maximise the benefits the Internet can offer.
• we provide a range of ways for community engagement to happen, including through the annual NetHui.
• we manage a community funding programme which offers grants and funds Strategic Partners to help advance our Objects.
• we provide Internet infrastructure such as the .nz country code top level domain and a range of associated services.

In all the work we do, we are guided by the Objects set out in our Constitution. These Objects and particularly the focus on protecting the open Internet are the foundation of all we do. The following extract from the Constitution sets out what the Objects are:
• to promote the competitive provision of Internet access, services and facilities in an open and uncaptureable environment.
• to develop, maintain, evolve, and disseminate standards for the Internet and its inter-networking technologies and applications.
• to develop, maintain, evolve and disseminate effective administrative processes for the operation of the Internet in New Zealand.
• to promote and conduct education and research related to the Internet and inter-networking.
• to coordinate activities at a national level pertaining to good management of centralised systems and resources which facilitate the development of the Internet, including but not limited to the Domain Name System.
• to collect and disseminate information related to the Internet and inter-networking, including histories and archives.
• to develop and maintain formal and informal relationships with the international Internet community, including the Internet Society.
• to represent the common interests of the wider New Zealand Internet community both nationally and internationally.
• to promote widely and generally available access to the Internet.
• to liaise with other organisations, New Zealand Government authorities, and the general public for coordination, collaboration, and education in effecting the above objects.

Projects funded

• explain how the project matches the InternetNZ purpose for the community grants round.
• identify any engagement within the community relevant to this project and explain how this project can help address community goals and objectives.

Activities funded

Research projects focused on internet topics and issues.

Funds available

Information not available

Upper limit per grant application

No limit.

Grants made last year

Information not available

Funds available last year

Information not available

How to apply

Internet Research Open: 8 November 2017   Applications due: 8 January 2018   Decision by: Early April 2018

• applications are first assessed in Stage 1, via a short application form (see form below) that should take no longer than 30 minutes to complete, for completeness and compliance with the round conditions by InternetNZ staff. InternetNZ staff then provide applications and background information from the applicants to the Grants Committee for applications which meet these requirements.
• stage 1 applications are assessed by InternetNZ staff and the Grants Committee to ensure fit with the InternetNZ purpose for the community grants round. Those that fit the purpose are assessed by the Grants Committee, or an Assessment Committee they convene, and scored against each of the criteria above.
• stage 1 applications are then ranked on their scores against the criteria. Applications which score below a minimum level set by the Grants Committee will not be eligible for funding and will be advised accordingly. Detailed Stage 2 applications are invited from other applicants. The committee may suggest that two or more applicants might benefit from working together in a joint application but the decision to take up this suggestion lies with the applicants.
• full applications received in Stage 2 are then assessed by the Grants Committee, or an Assessment Committee they convene, and scored against each of the criteria.
• once all proposals have been assessed and scored, those that score below a minimum level will not be eligible for funding and will be advised accordingly.
• the remaining proposals are ranked in groups according to their scores and will be recommended for approval in sequence until all the available funds have been allocated. Recommendations will then be made to the InternetNZ Council, as the final decisionmaking body.
• the Grants Committee reserves the right to take into account any concentration of proposals as part of its final recommendations to the InternetNZ Council. The committee may decide to adjust the ranking list among comparably scored proposals to achieve this balance. A clear decision trail will be visible on any occasion where this proves necessary.
• applicants who are successful will then be contacted and advised that their project is eligible for funding and agreement is then reached over issues like reporting before final confirmation. In the event that agreement cannot be reached the next ranked proposal may become eligible for funding.
• the remaining applicants who are not successful at this stage will be advised that their project is “potentially fundable but there are insufficient funds available”. These applications may be resubmitted in future community project funding rounds.

Decision makers

Grants committee.

Decision time

Projects Community Grants Round decisions are made on a contestable basis, with many applications being compared against each other. The process that applications go through involves InternetNZ staff providing information about each application to the InternetNZ Council’s Grants Committee, or an Assessment Committee they convene for Grant Round. That Committee carries out the assessment and the Grants Committee makes recommendations to the InternetNZ Council for final decision making. In order to be considered for funding, applications must have an alignment to the objects of InternetNZ including “to maintain and extend the availability of the Internet and its associated technologies and applications in New Zealand, both as an end in itself and as means of enabling organisations, professionals and individuals to more effectively collaborate, cooperate, communicate and innovate in their respective fields of interest".

How notified

Applicants who are successful will be contacted and advised that their project is eligible for funding.

Applicants who are not successful will be advised that their project is “potentially fundable but there are insufficient funds available”. Their applications may be resubmitted in future community project funding rounds.

How paid

Direct credit.

Other information

For more information please contact:

Gertrud Kikajon
Community Funding Coordinator
+64 4 495 2333
gertrud@internetnz.net.nz
Gertrud collaborates within InternetNZ, and the Internet community, to develop and advance the community programme. Her focus is on community funding activities including community grants, sponsorships, strategic partnership funding and grants and sponsorship committee support.

Contact

InternetNZ

Phone: 0800 101 151
Email: office@internetnz.net.nz
https://internetnz.nz/

Contact

Gertrud Kikajon
Community Funding Coordinator
InternetNZ
PO Box 11-881
Manners Street
Wellington 6142
New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 495 2333
Email: gertrud@internetnz.net.nz
https://internetnz.nz/