Our Community Foundations is excited to be offering two opportunities for scholarships, in 2023. The Jean Smithson Nursing Scholarship & The Rod McPherson Memorial Rural Scholarship. Both of these opportunities are aimed at rural communities in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and will add to the skill set in both primary health care and hands on farming.

A new partnership to grow philanthropy at grass roots level across Aotearoa-New Zealand has begun with dairy farming co-operative Fonterra. Locally in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, we are exploring some exciting and innovative ways to work together with our farming communities to grow and strengthen our impact in the region.