Lessons learned

Alongside the successes and milestones, there was plenty of learning throughout the ten years of NEXT. Read more here.

The NEXT Review

The NEXT Review This Review covers the journey of NEXT over ten years and includes the back story, way of operating, key milestones and various lessons learned along the way. Read more here

NEXT Stories introduction – Sunset Reflections

Reflections at Sunset by Bill Kermode Kia ora koutou, and welcome to the fourth and final issue of the NEXT Stories. NEXT was launched ten years ago and as we approach our ten-year spend down, I’v...

Successes, learning and the future

Successes, learning and the future Reflections at sunset • Annette and Neal Plowman are the founders of NEXT, a ten-year spend down foundation, with a strategic focus on the environment and educat...

Sustaining the gains

Sustaining the gains Beyond NEXT • NEXT is a limited life Foundation and planning for transition and sustainability of grant partners began at the point of NEXT investment • NEXT looked to suppor...

Fellowship Roopu Tuatoru

Fellowship Roopu Tuatoru On the systems change frontier • In 2019 NEXT turned its attention to growing leaders in system change, via the NEXT Fellowship • The vision is to build, connect, and gro...

The Centre for Strategic Philanthropy

The Centre for Strategic Philanthropy An invitation to give thoughtfully • The Centre for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP) is a place for givers with a strategic, business-like approach to meet, share...

NEXT vision, objectives and values

Guided by stars Vision, objectives and values NEXT’s vision reflects the philosophy of it’s founders, Annette and Neal Plowman, and their particular areas of interest in environment and educat...

NEXT friends

Caring for the land and people A whole lot of help from our friends NEXT’s vision is to leave a legacy of environmental and educational excellence for the benefit of future generations of New ...

NEXT Foundation Fellowships

Growing strategic agents of change Summary Aotearoa New Zealand is facing serious challenges - social, environmental, economic and cultural - many of which are complex, embedded, fractured and...

NEXT team and community

Creating a legacy for future generations The importance of people The NEXT team and community aspire to make a transformational difference for future generations of New Zealanders NEXT is a...

Guided by stars

Kia ora koutou, and welcome to the third issue of NEXT Stories. NEXT was formed eight years ago and I’ve been musing over recent months how much has changed during that time. We have witnessed C...

NEXT Champion Geoff Ricketts
From NEXT Foundation

Giving encourages giving. On top of the generosity of our founders we are also privileged to have many other generous New Zealanders giving NEXT their time, expertise and experience to help achieve ou...

Introducing NEXT Champion Laura Lee
From NEXT

Giving encourages giving. On top of the generosity of our founders we are also privileged to have many other generous New Zealanders giving NEXT their time, expertise and experience to help achieve ou...

December 2021

Kia ora friend of NEXT, When we set the education and environmental initiatives NEXT supports the challenge of coming up with an image and one sentence to illustrate their highlight of 2021 for our...

NEXT Champions – Andrew Poole
From NEXT

Introducing NEXT Champion Andrew Poole  Giving encourages giving. On top of the generosity of our founders we are also privileged to have many other generous New Zealanders giving NEXT their time, ...

Spring Edition – September 2021

Kia ora friend of NEXT, With Aotearoa New Zealand in another lockdown it seems apt that this newsletter features a story from former PFNZ 2050 Ltd CEO Abbie Reynolds on conservation as a catalyst f...

NEXT June Newsletter – Fight for the Wild

In this special edition newsletter we share all the links to Fight for the Wild - the four part documentary series on New Zealand’s audacious goal to become Predator Free by 2050. Documentary maker Pe...

Nextgen and philanthropy for Aotearoa New Zealand

How could philanthropy be reimagined in Aotearoa New Zealand? In this edition of NEXT Outlook Te Radar hosts a panel discussion with future young leaders Inspiring Stories CEO Guy Ryan; NEXT Fellow Ju...

NEXT Outlook returns

After a twelve month Covid hiatus - our NEXT Outlook breakfasts have returned. Despite a couple of postponements NEXT was delighted to be able to host a NEXT Outlook breakfast in mid March, where gues...

Te Manahuna Aoraki releases annual report 2020

Te Manahuna Aoraki - an environmental initiative NEXT invests in, has published its 2020 Annual Report. It outlines all the mahi being done on this collaborative project to restore the biodiversity...

NEXT Newsletter – October 2020

In this edition of the NEXT newsletter, Wellington welcomes some new rare residents, we introduce you to the second cohort of NEXT fellows, the Ministry of Eduction collaborates more closely with phil...

NEXT Newsletter – August 2020

Kia ora friend of NEXT He rangi tā matawhāiti, he rangi tā matawhānui A person with narrow vision has a restricted horizon, a person with wide vision has plenty of opportunities. Looking for...

Elliot Bay saved from development

Iconic national surf beach Elliot Bay has been saved from development - with the Ipipiri Nature Conservancy Trust managing to secure a deal in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. NEXT is one of many ...

NEXT Newsletter – April 2020

Kia ora friend of NEXT. Welcome to the NEXT newsletter “Lockdown edition” - we hope you and your families are safe and well during these challenging times. Just as Aotearoa New Zealand was enter...

High tech mainland predator control success

Zero Invasive Predators - a NEXT environmental investment - has just completed a successful predator eradication operation on mainland New Zealand. The Perth River Valley project is groundbreaking - ...

Humanitix: Charity for the Tech Generation

Humanitix - which has recently launched in New Zealand with support from NEXT, has been described as a “charity for the tech generation” in a profile published in Idealog magazine. The not for prof...

MIRAMAR PENINSULA NEARLY RAT FREE

Residents in the Miramar Peninsula in Wellington might be getting their best christmas present ever - after a huge eradication project by Predator Free Wellington - one of NEXT’s environmental investm...

Giving while Living

Kea has profiled Neal and Annette Plowman and NEXT foundation in their end of year newsletter as part of a feature on a Giving in New Zealand. Read more here.

Taranaki Mounga Annual Report 2019

Taranaki Mounga - one of NEXT’s environmental investments, has published its annual report highlighting progress in this project which is restoring the biodiversity on the Mounga and its surrounds. ...

Te Manahuna Aoraki publishes Annual Report 2019

Te Manahuna Aoraki - one of NEXT’s environmental investments, has published its inaugural annual report. In its first year it has focused on providing a safer environment for the birds that live in th...

Storytelling as a tool for reflection

NEXT turned five earlier this year, which represents the half way point of it’s ten year life as a spend down foundation. Since then I’ve been reflecting on the NEXT journey, and in particular the imp...

NEXT Governance

NEXT’s approach to governance NEXT founders Neal and Annette Plowman wanted a board that was small, flexible and philosophically aligned, with people they knew and trusted The thinking in the ...

Selecting grant partners

NEXT’s approach to selection between 2014 and 2024   The NEXT Foundation launched in March 2014 and three months later ran it’s first expression of interest (EOI) round, calling nationally for ap...

Humanitix receives NEXT Foundation support

Humanitix has been launched in New Zealand, with some support from the  strategic philanthropic foundation NEXT . Humanitix is a not for profit  online ticketing platform, that channels profits from b...

NEXT supports Humanitix launch in NZ
from Humanitix

Humanitix, a not for profit ticketing platform that channels booking fee profits into education, has launched in New Zealand. Humanitix is already operating in Australia, and has launched in New Zeal...

Humanitix launched in NZ

Humanitix, a not-for-profit ticketing platform that channels profits from booking fees into education initiatives, has launched in New Zealand. NEXT is supporting Humanitix, which has selected one of ...

Predator free Wellington impact report

Do you know how many Wellingtonians support a Predator Free Wellington , how many communities have set up predator free groups and how many rodents have been caught? All these details and more in the...

NZ Philanthropy Landscape

How is the philanthropic landscape in NZ changing and where does strategic philanthropy and NEXT fit into the picture? Margie Clooney reports on the current trends in this article for Denizen magazine...

NEXT Expert Teacher Award announced

Rauhina Cooper, who teaches te reo matatini and te reo Māori in Hamilton was named winner of a prestigious national award that recognises contemporary teaching practice in New Zealand. Rauhina is 2...

Kākā returned to Abel Tasman

Twelve kākā have been released into the Abel Tasman National Park, where NEXT invests in Project Janszoon. The kākā have been released into an area with intensive trapping, in the hope they will surv...

Postcard from NEXT CEO
by Bill Kermode

NEXT CEO Bill Kermode is currently on sabbatical. It is giving him time to write the occasional blog - and in this edition Bill shares some reading he has been doing, including one that is providing s...

A lens on our fifth celebrations

A lens on our fifth celebrations

NEXT was privileged to have some of New Zealand’s top educationalists, environmentalists and philanthropists among over 200 guests at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to celebrate our first five years...

How does change happen?

System change is a critical part of the challenge of strategic philanthropy - and a big part of NEXT’s agenda in New Zealand. So how does it happen? Co-impact is a global collaborative focused on syst...

NEXT’s 10 year challenge by NEXT CEO Bill Kermode

NEXT was created with the advantage of having a fixed life. And it was given the challenge of making a sustainable difference to complex problems that will likely not be fully solved in that lifetime....

Partnerships & Collaboration – Te Manahuna Aoraki

Te Manahuna Aoraki is a collaboration between government, iwi, private landowners, philanthropists and community to restore the biodiversity of the upper Mackenzie Basin and Aoraki/Mount Cook National...

NEXT – Reflecting on our first five years

NEXT is celebrating its halfway mark - we are five years into our 10 year project. NEXT is privileged to work with some of New Zealand’s most inspiring people and projects - who are transforming our e...

NEXT – Celebrating our first 5 years

More than 200 guests – philanthropists, educationalists, environmentalists – even a former Prime Minister – gathered at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to celebrate NEXT’s first five years. “When Ne...

Strategic practices in philanthropy

Strategic Philanthropy Different foundations have different tools in their philanthropy kete or baskets - money is just one of these tools Being strategic and thoughtful in approach can magn...

Why a limited life foundation

From the outset of NEXT Foundation the intent was clear - to deliver a 10-year $100 million spend down programme, be strategic in approach, focus in the areas of education and the environment and inve...

The pre-NEXT story and getting started

To understand the NEXT story, it is necessary to first look back. Annette and Neal Plowman have always been generous. Their philanthropy pre-dates NEXT and is a marker of their lives together. They b...

NBR Puts Spotlight on NZ Philanthropy Sector

Philanthropy plays a crucial part in improving New Zealand society, with private funds stepping in to ease the country’s shortfalls. But what entices people to give away large chunks of their money, and how is the sector evolving?


Kea World Class NZ – Full List of Winners

Philanthropy, arts, science and technology – Kea has published it’s full list
of winners of the 2018 World Class NZ awards – where NEXT founders
Neal and Annette Plowman took out the Supreme Award.


NEXT Executive Pay Tribute to Neal and Annette Plowman

NEXT Founding Chair Chris Liddell, CEO Bill Kermode, the Board and the Plowman family
have paid tribute to NEXT founders Neal and Annette Plowman, upon the announcement
they are joint recipients of the 2018 Kea World Class New Zealand Supreme Award.