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Victoria University Of Wellington Student Has Been Selected As One Of The 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award Recipients
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 11:56 am | Acorn Foundation
Singer, actor, dancer, and writer Lizzie Bysouth is this year’s recipient from Victoria University of Wellington. Lizzie is a remarkably multi-talented performer, with an abiding passion for the world of theatre. More >>
New Zealand School Of Dance Student Has Been Selected As One Of The 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award Recipients
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 3:10 pm | Acorn Foundation
Dancer and educator Aylish Marshall is this year’s recipient from the New Zealand School of Dance. Aylish is a talented and diligent student, with a deep passion for dance. Aylish also loves sharing her skills, working at several dance studios around ... More >>
University Of Otago Student Selected As FAME Trust Emerging Practitioner Award Recipient
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 2:33 pm | Acorn Foundation
Viola performer, composer, and musicologist Grace Shaw is this year’s recipient from the University of Otago. Grace is a very talented and intelligent performer, composer, and researcher, with a deep commitment to excellence and impressive creative ... More >>
First FAME Year 13 Performing Arts Scholarship Recipient Selected
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 6:36 am | Acorn Foundation
25 October 2024 The Acorn Foundation and the trustees of the FAME Trust, in conjunction with Creative Bay of Plenty, are pleased to announce the selection for the 2024 FAME Performing Arts Scholarship. This is a new award valued at $5,000 that will be awarded ... More >>
Acorn Foundation Announces $3.2M In Community Funding
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 9:32 pm | Acorn Foundation
Applications received for Acorn’s unrestricted grants increased by 40% this year, reflecting the funding challenges faced by the community sector in 2024. More >>
Celebration Of Dale Carnegie 2024 Scholarship Winners
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 2:38 pm | Acorn Foundation
This three-day course teaches the Dale Carnegie five drivers of success: building greater self-confidence; strengthening people skills; enhancing communication skills; developing leadership skills; and reducing stress and worry. More >>
Acorn Foundation Inaugurates New Memorial Grove
Friday, 7 June 2024, 5:38 pm | Acorn Foundation
The grove has been established to honour the legacy of donors to the foundation who have passed on and has begun with the planting of six young native saplings: three Kahikatea and three Pūriri trees. More >>
2023 And 2024 Winners Of Page/Acorn Engineering Scholarship Honoured
Friday, 31 May 2024, 3:53 pm | Acorn Foundation
The Acorn Foundation honoured winners of the 2023 and 2024 Page/Acorn Engineering Scholarship this week at a special awards ceremony. Awarded annually to second-year apprentices at local engineering firms, recipients and their respective workplaces ... More >>
University Of Waikato Tauranga Campus Scholarships Celebrated
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 5:27 pm | Acorn Foundation
Four adult learners have won Acorn Foundation scholarships, twelve students were granted TECT First-in-Family awards, and nine students were awarded TECT Returning Student scholarships. On Monday evening, the students from the University of Waikato ... More >>
ASB Bank Supports Our Community This Christmas
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:04 pm | Acorn Foundation
Local ASB Tauranga and Mount Teams have donated $10,000 to three local charities to support our community this Christmas, via the Acorn Foundation. Seeing the need in our community in areas of Food Security, Housing, and Mental Health, the ASB Tauranga ... More >>
Acorn Foundation And Craigs Unite For Fifth Consecutive Year To Support Western Bay Of Plenty Charities
Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 3:37 pm | Acorn Foundation
For the fifth Christmas in a row, the Acorn Foundation and Craigs Investment Partners have teamed up to support the community here in the Western Bay of Plenty and in 18 other regions across NZ where Craigs operate. This year, the Craigs team donated ... More >>
Local Angels Donate More Than $50,000 To Charity
Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 2:35 pm | Acorn Foundation
The Sally’s Angels Giving Circle has donated more than $50,000 to 12 charitable groups across the Western Bay of Plenty, via the Acorn Foundation. ‘Angels’ is an apt name for the ten local women who began this Giving Circle back in 2016 as ... More >>
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School Is Delighted To Announce The Recipient Of The 2023 FAME Trust Emerging Practitioner Award
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 4:29 pm | Acorn Foundation
The Acorn Foundation and the trustees of the FAME Trust are pleased to announce the selection for the 2023 Emerging Practitioner Award recipient at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Seven promising students are selected each year from top-rated ... More >>
University Of Otago Student Has Been Selected As One Of The 2023 Emerging Practitioner Award Recipients
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 8:21 pm | Acorn Foundation
Cameron Monteath The Acorn Foundation and the trustees of the FAME Trust are pleased to announce the selection for the 2023 Emerging Practitioner Award recipient at the University of Otago. Seven promising students are selected each year from top-rated ... More >>
New Zealand School Of Dance Chooses 2023 FAME Trust Winner
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 6:43 pm | Acorn Foundation
The Acorn Foundation and the trustees of the FAME Trust are pleased to announce the selection for the 2023 Emerging Practitioner Award recipient at the New Zealand School of Dance. This institution is one of seven top-rated performing arts schools ... More >>
Acorn Foundation Announces Funding Of Over $3.3M For The Region
Wednesday, 6 September 2023, 6:09 am | Acorn Foundation
In light of difficult economic conditions and the end of extra central government funding available during the COVID-19 crisis, 226 different charitable organisations and scholarship and award programmes will be thrilled to receive their share of $3.3M ... More >>
Local Literary Philanthropist Named
Monday, 24 February 2020, 7:28 am | Acorn Foundation
The anonymous donor who has sponsored the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards since 2016 has been named. The $55,000 prize, adjusted annually for inflation, is one of the world’s richest literary awards. Jann Medlicott ... More >>
Lessons from Canada for Community Foundations in New Zealand
Friday, 4 April 2014, 2:04 pm | Acorn Foundation
The role that philanthropy can and should play in our community will be under the spotlight when one of the world’s leading authorities on community foundations meets with The Community Foundations of New Zealand at their third national workshop ... More >>
