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The government's new way of funding social service providers is just weeks away from opening. The Social Service Investment Fund aims to use data, evidence and different ways of working to achieve better outcomes for children, whānau and communities.
It will closely follow the government targets for helping children and young people and countering family and sexual violence. Providers and funders alike recognise the need for evidence and information to show projects will deliver on what they are promising. But there are also worries that some organisations helping children and families won't have the capacity to deliver the details required and may lose out on funding.
At the same time, community funders are being asked to provide money for organisations to gather the information needed to put in applications to the investment fund. Kathryn is joined by Belinda Himiona the Chief Executive of Social Service Providers Aotearoa and Rahul Watson Govindan the Chief Executive of Philanthropy New Zealand.
