Acceptance Criteria
Fill out our application form telling us about who you are and what you're doing, and we review it. Sometimes we get in touch and ask for more info. The process is in place because we take on liability for your activities when we become your fundholder, and we have to ensure no one uses our accounts for anything dodgy or illegal. Applications to the Gift Collective have to meet stricter criteria, defined by what's allowed for charities (details). Once approved, we'll set up your Collective on the platform and you'll be good to go.
To be accepted into the Gift Collective whānau, your initiative must be focused on a charitable purpose in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Gift Collective team will assess each application submitted against the criteria below. We'll let you know if we have more questions or if your application has been successful.
Your activities must:
Have a charitable purpose, according to New Zealand law¹ which includes:
the relief of poverty,
the advancement of education, or
any other purpose beneficial to the community.
Be based in and be of benefit to New Zealand².
Provide a public benefit, and none of your activities can have a private benefit or provide profit to any individual.
Not provide support for political campaigns, candidates, or to support purely lobbying activity.³
The Gift Collective will not accept recipients that it believes, in its sole discretion, are supporting or engaging in hate speech or hateful activities, whether online or offline.⁴
For more information on what is considered charitable, see this info from Charities Services.
Expenses cannot be paid internationally unless express advance written approval is given by the Gift Collective.
A limited amount of lobbying can be classed as a charitable activity; we use the Charities Services definition.
‘Hateful activities’ means inciting or engaging in violence, intimidation, harassment, threats or defamation, or targeting an individual or group based on race, colour, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
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