Community Internship Programme Te Tahua Whakahaerenga Tauira Hapori
- Purpose/Kaupapa
- Who is involved?
- What we fund
- What we do not fund
- Who can apply
- Making an application
Second funding round
A second Community Internship Programme funding round for 2011/12 opened on 18 November 2011 and closes on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 4pm. For instructions on how to make an application, please see the Making an application page.
Purpose/Kaupapa
The Community Internship Programme (CIP or the programme) funds hapū, iwi or community groups with identified development needs to employ skilled professionals from the public, iwi, private or community sectors as interns for three to six months.
The programme is designed to achieve specific capacity-building outcomes for host hapū, iwi or community organisations, and relationship-building outcomes between the public, private, iwi or community sectors.
The programme focuses on skill-sharing and the exchange of knowledge between sectors, while building ongoing relationships which continue after an internship ends.
Who is involved?
There are three partners required for a community internship:
- an established, not-for-profit community or hapū/iwi organisation, which has clearly identified an area for development, is known as the host community organisation and is the applicant for the CIP grant
- an experienced and skilled person who temporarily leaves their paid position within a public, private, iwi or community and voluntary sector organisation to work as the intern for the host community organisation for three to six months fulltime
- the home organisation, which is the regular place of work for the intern before and after the internship. A home organisation can be a private business, iwi authority, government department, local authority, or a non-profit community organisation.
Community internships work as a partnership between the host community organisation, the intern and the home organisation (the intern’s usual employer). Interns work for the host organisation for three to six months on agreed work programmes designed to improve the effectiveness of the organisation.
What we fund
A CIP grant is a salary specific grant to the host organisation to cover the full amount of an intern’s salary for the period of the community internship.
What we do not fund
The CIP does not fund
- permanent positions within the host organisation, or a start-up wage for a permanent position
- proposals or interns from outside New Zealand
- consultants, contractors or self employed people
- students, people seeking work experience for new graduates or people seeking practical experience to fulfil study requirements
- project costs and/or disbursements
- internships for people currently working in volunteer roles with the home organisation.
Who can apply
The host organisation, intern and the home organisation need to work together to develop a community internship proposal, based on the needs identified by the host organisation.
The applicant (host) organisation must:
- have legal entity status, be GST registered and audit their accounts each year
- have appropriate governance and management structures and processes in place
- have the ability to be a good employer; and
- have the capability to successfully achieve the internship outcomes proposed.
Community internship proposals must:
- build relationships and understanding between organisations and sectors;
- be based on collaboration and partnership between a host organisation, an intern and a home organisation;
- address a development need of the host hapū, iwi or community organisation;
- allow the intern to gather new experiences, build new networks and gain a new community perspective; and
- demonstrate how the home organisation intends to draw on the intern’s broadened experience, renewed energy and new ideas on their return.
Funding Priorities
Preference will be given to applications that demonstrate both a specific capacity-building outcome for the host organisation, and a relationship-building and skill-sharing outcome between sectors or organisations.
