Aotearoa Lifecourse Fund

Lifecourse skills are the key ingredients in childhood that lay the foundations for happy, healthy, successful lives as adults. Building lifecourse skills in childhood can also be a circuit-breaker for intergenerational disadvantage. Aotearoa Lifecourse Fund is building lifecourse skills through a globally-proven model of venture philanthropy. Our goal is to improve the long-term outcomes of as many children and young people as possible in Aotearoa (New Zealand). In the next five years, the Fund will put NZ $10M into finding, funding and scaling programmes that build lifecourse skills for tamariki (children) and rangatahi (young people). The Aotearoa Lifecourse Fund combines three distinctive elements: Finding programmes that successfully develop lifecourse skills, Funding those programmes using a venture philanthropy model, and Scaling those programmes by providing capability building, to achieve an exit to long-term government funding. www.lifecourse.nz