What does COGS fund?

COGS provides grants to non-profit community groups and organisations delivering community-based social services, projects and events. Grants are one-off contributions for:

the running or operational costs of organisations that provide community-based social services
community development costs, such as hui, training, planning, evaluation and facilitator fees
community projects or event costs that:

encourage participation in communities
promote community leadership
promote social, economic and cultural equity.

What are COGS outcomes?

Organisations requesting COGS grants need to show how their community-based services or projects will contribute to:

encouraging participation in communities
promoting community leadership
developing community capability
promoting social, economic and cultural equity, or
reducing the downstream social and economic costs to communities and government.

Each local COGS committee also develops community outcomes from discussions at annual public meetings where communities are able to discuss what local benefits or outcomes they want from the COGS investment in their communities.

Are there any priorities for COGS grants?

COGS committees prioritise community-based organisations delivering services to one or more of these priority sectors:

Māori
women
Pacific communities
other ethnic communities
older people
rurally isolated people
people with disabilities
families
youth and children
unemployed people
community-based organisations with limited access to other government funding

Important dates for COGS

The next opening and closing dates for COGS requests and the Committee decision meeting date are listed at the link below:

Important COGS dates

What is COGS?

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.