The Gift Trust welcomes Namaste Foundation

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The Gift Trust welcomes the Namaste Foundation to our whānau. We will be working with this innovative funder to distribute their NZ donations.

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Namaste

We’re excited to share the news that we’ve welcomed the Namaste Foundation to The Gift Trust whānau.  The Namaste Foundation funds organisations that strive for a peaceful, just and regenerative world. They have been funding a number of exceptional New Zealand non-profits from their original base in the Silicon Valley in the USA, but they’ve now given $1million to The Gift Trust to administer their NZ donations. We are delighted to help them achieve their aims here in Aotearoa.

Namaste Foundation hopes this new gift will enable them to deepen support for non-profits and social enterprises based in New Zealand. Some of the NZ organisations they have supported include Happen Films, Inspiring Stories, Ekos, Action Station, One Percent Collective and LifeHack. You can read more about their NZ donations and the wonderful organisations they support here. 

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