The Community Organisation Grants Scheme or COGS provides grants to non-profit organisations delivering community-based social services that contribute to achieving locally-determined outcomes.

COGS provides grants to non-profit community groups and organisations delivering community-based social services, projects and events.

Locally elected volunteers on 37 COGS Local Distribution Committees (LDCs) make decisions based on the likelihood that the organisations receiving grants will deliver the community benefits and outcomes described in…

COGS does not fund:

individuals
fundraisers, including professional or commercial fundraisers whose purpose is to distribute money to others
services that duplicate existing services, unless the request demonstrates there is a good reason…

The Community Organisation Grants Scheme or COGS provides government funding to support voluntary and non-profit community organisations working in local communities and neighbourhoods.

The Department of Internal Affairs administers COGS and supports its elected voluntary governing body, the National COGS Committee.

A COGS grant request is first reviewed by the Department of Internal Affairs to check you have completed the request form and provided a budget that shows the period of…

Grant decisions are based on the funds available and how each request is likely to contibute to achieving benefits and outcomes for local communities, hapū and iwi. COGS decision-making for…

COGS is a government-funded grant scheme. Therefore COGS grants must comply with relevant legislation. For example, for services, projects or events that involve children, organisations requesting grants need to describe…

Public meetings are held before the COGS funding round opens each year.