5 days ago
New fundraising tool aims to help schools
education about 1 hour ago
Students at a small northern Hawke's Bay kura have had an incredibly disruptive couple of years. Forced out of their classrooms by Cyclone Gabrielle, Nuhaka School's kids moved multiple times before finally getting into their warm, new and slightly elevated building. It's been a welcome return and now principal Raelene McFarlane can turn her attention to the other things her school needs: a bus shelter, a finished playground and money for teacher aide training. But when your community has been so stretched through disaster, how do you ask them for more? It's been weighing on Jenni Giblin's mind, as a Hawke's Bay local with ties to the Wairoa area, she knew well what people were going through. She'd already created Funding HQ to help community organisations navigate the tricky and time-consuming grants process. Now she's set up another branch called FundEd which is tailored to the education sector. Both Raelene and Jenni join Susie to talk about why they believe it'll help level the fundraising field, particularly for small rural schools like Nuhaka
