Farewell Sam!
After nine years on the Board as Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee for Hawke’s Bay Foundation, Sam Howard leaves an enduring mark on the region’s Community Foundation. Instrumental in setting up the Foundation’s endowment fund, we sat down with Sam to reflect on his time. Looking back on your tenure, what do you […]
‘Going for Gold’ Yields Oar-some Result
Hawke’s Bay Rowing’s recent ‘Going for Gold’ Gala dinner and auction evening has successfully raised $100,000 for the Club’s rowing Fund held with Hawke’s Bay Foundation. The event held at Toitoi Hawke’s Bay Arts and Events Centre raised funds and awareness for the Clive-based club where many Olympic rowing careers began. Stars of the show, […]
Cornerstone Donors Muck In to Mark Foundation Milestone
A group of generous Hawke’s Bay Foundation cornerstone donors have marked ten years of the Community Foundation’s existence by mucking in with an historic tree planting at Te Mata Park. Creating a commemorative woodland area at the Park for Hawke’s Bay Foundation to add native trees to with each decade has been a joint vision […]
Hawke’s Bay Foundation Faces Record Funding Demands
More charities than ever before applied for 2022 funding through Hawke’s Bay Foundation which has seen near record distributions recently sustain the operation of 49 local charities. Through Hawke’s Bay Foundation funding, almost a quarter of a million dollars ($246,551) has buffered the coffers of charities spanning the region’s service sector from: social services to […]
Foundations of Heritage the Key to Local Couple’s Giving
Hawke’s Bay duo Neil Barber and Craig Hay have always been attracted to solid foundations restoring some of the region’s most iconic heritage listed buildings. Now through a bequest in their will to Hawke’s Bay Foundation, they plan to leave their most enduring legacy yet. Hawke’s Bay Foundation is the pair’s chosen charitable giving vehicle […]
What You Need To Know When Writing Your Will
Just as the word suggests, a will carries out your wishes. If you die without a valid will, the law dictates how your estate is distributed. This means if you have no next of kin, your estate will pass to the Crown. And if you do have relatives, they may disagree about what should happen […]
Where There’s A Will There’s A Way
Leaving a gift in their will to Hawke’s Bay Foundation is enabling a Dutch couple who now call Hawke’s Bay ‘home’, to give back to their adopted community in more ways than one. Since relocating here from the Netherlands six years ago, Anya and Ruurd Van Etten wanted to repay the warmth and support the […]
Alma Puts Weight Behind Foundation
Hawke’s Bay Foundation is excited to welcome the region’s newest health and wellness provider Alma Studio on board as a Corporate Supporter. Alma, meaning ‘nourish’ and ‘soul’, is a multi-disciplinary movement studio now open in Havelock North’s new Joll Road development. A house of movement, wellness, mindfulness and connection, Alma is the brainchild of ex-corporate […]
Wartime Women Working the Land Sows a Scholarship Seed
There aren’t many places in the world Alison Bevin hasn’t seen or been. Ten years spent living on the largest private residential ship on the planet will do that, but reflecting on her experiences visiting some of the most off-the-beaten track wonders of the world has seen Alison return to the adage “charity begins at […]
Foundation Helps Local Charities Weather a Not For Profit Sector Storm
Hawke’s Bay Foundation is heeding the call from local charities and community groups for more funding as they battle unprecedented rising operating costs, skills shortages, a drop in volunteers and an overwhelming demand on child and family services. Two years of challenging Covid conditions and stiffening economic headwinds has seen a marked increase in charities […]
