Financial support and funding

	Creative NZ Creative NZ offers grants for arts projects as one of the ways it works to develop and promote New Zealand’s arts and artists, both at home and internationally. Creative NZ funds projects that focus on the development of New Zealand arts and artists, are stand-alone arts activities with a start and an end point, or are programmes of work over a clearly defined period of time.
	Creative NZ Pacific Arts Committee Creative NZ’s Pacific Arts Committee has four funding programmes, each with a different aim: Heritage Arts – to support the participation of Pacific Islands peoples in their heritage arts Pacific Arts Development – to support the development of Pacific Islands arts and artists Pacific Arts Promotion – to develop the profile and an awareness of Pacific Islands arts and artists Tangata Whenua Links – to strengthen links between Pacific Islands artists and tangata whenua.
	Department of Internal Affairs Lottery Grants are available for different types of projects and services, including the Pacific Provider Development Fund.
	Funding Information Service (FIS) A not-for-profit organisation collecting and distributing information about funding for community groups in New Zealand, details of awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand individuals for personal development, principally in academic, artistic, research and sporting fields, and organisations looking for mutually beneficial relationships with businesses offering volunteering, mentoring, sponsorship, gifts in kind, loans and other initiatives.
	Pacific Business Trust The Pacific Business Trust ensures New Zealanders of Pacific descent who are either starting a business or expanding an existing one, do so with the best possible support and financial advice available. This support covers a wide range of business services, such as mentoring, loans, financial management and advice. The Trust runs seminars and workshops to assist in planning the next business step a company can embark on.
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