One of the education initiatives NEXT
Invests in – Springboard Trust – is celebrating its 10th birthday.
Springboard offers strategic leadership advice to school principals and in the video below its Chairman Ian Narev outlines its success over the past decade.
Friend of NEXT Annette Culpan offers up some advice on when charities are investment ready – including some insights from NEXT CEO Bill Kermode.
Sandy Bornholdt from Mt Manganui’s Te Kura o Matapihi has been recognised as the country’s top digital teacher, winning the prestigious NEXT Expert Teacher Award at The Mind Lab by Unitec’s graduation in Auckland last week.
“He waka eke noa.. we are all in this together. We need help, let’s paddle the waka together..” Jamie Tuuta, Maori Trustee, CEO Te Tumu Paeroa, Chair Taranaki Mounga, on kaupapa Maori iwi and philanthropy, shares his insights into Maoridom today; philanthropy – and how iwi and philanthropists can work together for a better New Zealand.
Technology is helping parents realise the benefits of richer language with babies
in their first 1000 days – the New Zealand Herald report on the device being
trialled by NEXT education initiative Talking Matters.
In the NEXT September Newsletter we highlight our education investment in the First 1000 days
with an opinion piece from the Children’s Commissioner; and some technology trials in Talking Matters.
We also bring you an environmental update from Project Janszoon and introduce some young Canterbury songwriters
in our Meet the Musicians series.
Play it Strange songwriters Troy Scott and Katie Miller found music therapeutic during the trauma of the Christchurch earthquakes. In this Meet the Musicians profile,they discuss what songwriting means to them – and the story behind their single “Turn to Me” which they kindly allow NEXT to use on our video about education initiative The Springboard Trust.
Could technology help tune parents into the importance of rich communication with their babies in their first 1000 days?
Talking Matters, a NEXT early years(0-3) education initiative has been testing cutting edge technology with a group of parents – as a tool for promoting richer language.
All roads lead to the very early years of a child’s life
… says New Zealand’s Children’s Commissioner
Judge Andrew Becroft.
So … what areas does he believe New Zealand
should be focusing on to improve the outcomes
of our children?
This is NEXT … in sixty seconds. We are often asked for an “executive summary” of who is NEXT and what we do -so we have put our story in a one minute video .
NEXT environmental initiative the Rotoroa Island Trust has farewelled its Chairman Barrie Brown.
Barrie has stepped down after a decade at the helm – and oversaw the transition from being
a former Salvation Army drug and rehabilitation centre to the conservation park and wildlife
sanctuary it is today.
NEXT would like to introduce you to one of the talented young Play it Strange musicians Teia Kennedy.
Teia’s wonderful single “Armani’s Song” backs the video for the Rotorua education initiative
Nga Pumanawa e Waru, that NEXT invests in.
..according to Ian Narev, Chair of the NEXT supported Springboard Trust and CEO of the Australian Commonwealth Bank.
Ian shared his insights into Enabling Outstanding Educational Leaders at a NEXT Outlook, thought leadership breakfast in Auckland.
NEXT Foundation has today confirmed its Chairman Chris Liddell is stepping down as non-executive Chairman. Chris’ resignation follows his appointment as Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives in the United States Administration.
NEXT Foundation is pleased to be supporting eight New Zealand environment and education organisations, in addition to the five Foundation initiatives that the trustees had committed to before NEXT’s 2014 launch.
NEXT is pleased to present its inaugural Review – documenting the NEXT journey over its first two and a half years.
The Review updates all the NEXT and Foundation initiatives in our focus areas of the environment and education – plus
comments from the NEXT leadership team.
NEXT Chairman Chris Liddell appears on TVNZ 1 Breakfast to discuss NEXT’s latest investment in Talking Matters, a campaign to promote communication with babies in their first 1000 days.
Educational futurist and The Mind Lab founder Frances Valintine questions whether Kiwi millennials are ready for the changes technology is bringing.
Her talk was part of the speakers series organised by NEXT Generation – a group of 18-30 year olds interested in social investment who are being supported by the NEXT Foundation.
Funding for a new programme promoting the importance of communicating with kiwi babies and young children called “Talking Matters” has been announced today.
Talking Matters is seed funded by the NEXT Foundation.
NEXT is thrilled to announce its investment in “Talking Matters” – a campaign about the importance of communicating with babies in the first 1000 days. It’s NEXT’s first investment in early years education 0-3 years.
NEXT CEO Bill Kermode recently visited US philanthropic foundations on a research trip with Chairman Chris Liddell – where a foundation in Boston introduced him to the concept of “venture philanthropy.
How does a twenty-something Kiwi prepare for the challenges of the modern world?
That’s the question pitched to NEXT Foundation Chairman Chris Liddell by a group of
young New Zealanders called NEXT Generation who are on a journey of discovery about
philanthropy.
NEXT supports projects that are transformational, inspirational and business-like. Part of “business-like” is using evidence to support actions and decision-making. “Big data” is widening the breadth of that evidence, and technology is making it potentially much more widely available.
NEXT Chairman Chris Liddell outlines the Foundation’s philanthropic investment focus in education and the environment.
The NEXT Foundation has confirmed the areas it is most interested in regarding its strategy to improve New Zealand’s environment and education.
The guidelines have been released as it reaches its two year milestone and in advance of the next round of funding applications in 2017.
Chris Liddell, our Chair talks to NZ Herald’s Education Reporter about Manaiakalani Outreach and the NEXT Foundation’s commitment to people who are innovative and are trying different approaches in education.
NEXT Foundation today announced a further two investments in education from the many excellent submissions to its 2014 application process.
Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru is a Rotorua district-wide initiative that will use best practice e-learning teaching methodologies and collaboration between schools to transform educational outcomes for learners and whanau across all of Rotorua’s schools and kura.
Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou.Haere mai ki te waka o Te Arawa.Haere mai ki te kaupapa o Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru
Leith Comer, Executive Chairman of Excel Rotorua Education Trust sits on the mahau of his ancestral house Tamatekapua, the captain of the Arawa waka.
Chair of Manaiakalani, Pat Snedden believes living in a low socio economic community should not determine your education outcomes.
“Manaiakalani schools in Auckland have parents with an average adult income of $19,000 per annum.
Doug Lemov writes in The Guardian about the revolution that could change the way your child is taught. He believes great teachers are made, not born – and his ideas are transforming education.
Reflecting our philosophy of strategic philanthropy and measuring the impact of initiatives, NEXT Foundation is delighted to announce an additional investment to SpringBoard Trust (SBT) to enable robust and rigorous evaluation of their programmes.SBT has commissioned New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to research learning outcomes from the SBT programmes and we’re thrilled to have their depth of expertise to lead this work.
The Mind Lab is expanding! We are delighted to partner with them to offer 800 NEXT Generation Teacher scholarships to their Postgraduate Programme and even more delighted that they now extend to Gisborne and Wellington public school teachers.
Frances Valintine, Founder and Chair of The Mind Lab by Unitec advocates teachers are the answer to preparing our students for a super charged world.
Award winning The Mind Lab by Unitec is a learning facility fundamentally designed to enable children to get excited about technology.
NEXT Foundation Chair Chris Liddell is delighted to announce the foundation’s first four investments in the fields of the environment and education.
From regenerating New Zealand’s native birdlife and improving the quality of our rivers, to strengthening school leadership and improving our teachers’ digital literacy – the first four initiatives to receive NEXT Foundation investment have the potential for large-scale transformation.
The Springboard Trust Chair Ian Narev believes it is a critical right for young kiwis to have access to a great education regardless of their circumstance.
The Springboard Trust (SBT) is a unique charitable trust within New Zealand’s education sector working to improve student outcomes by assisting educational leaders and their communities grow in strategic, structured and scalable ways.
NEXT Foundation is pleased to announce that it has received an outstanding response to its initial grant process.
Chairman Chris Liddell said that the Foundation had received 280 Expressions of Interest totaling more than $1.8billion, split evenly between the areas of Environment and Education.
The Government and NEXT Foundation will today sign a conservation Accord that will secure the ecological gains made by qualifying privately funded conservation projects.
The Tomorrow Accord commits the New Zealand Government to maintain long term results for parts of the conservation estate where philanthropic investment has delivered significant, measurable enhancement of the ecological prospects of those ecosystems.
There has been a major announcement this afternoon with news that $100 million is being made available to fund environmental and educational projects in New Zealand.
The NEXT Foundation has been established
to create a legacy of environmental and
educational excellence for the benefit of
future generations of New Zealanders.
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A $100 million philanthropic foundation, established to support and invest in high impact New Zealand-based environmental and education projects, was launched in Auckland today.
The NEXT Foundation is funded through the benefaction of New Zealanders Annette and Neal Plowman, who have already supported a number of significant philanthropic projects, including the Rotoroa Island Trust in the Hauraki Gulf, Project Janzsoon in the Abel Tasman National Park and Teach First NZ which aims to tackle educational inequality.