What if the starting point for teaching young people about money wasn’t a worksheet on budgeting, but the skills and values of their ancestors? That’s the idea behind Moana Money, a financial education programme for Pacific high school students that AMPLIFY is supporting in Te Waipounamu.

In March we spent two energising days in Blenheim, Marlborough, for the community launch of FutureFX, a region-wide initiative helping young people build the confidence, knowledge and skills to make money work for them throughout their lives. It’s one of the first initiatives AMPLIFY is supporting - here’s why we’re excited by what we saw.

We proactively seek out organisations to partner with, but we are always interested in hearing about initiatives that build the financial capability of young people in Aotearoa and meet our investment criteria. Here’s what we look for.

AMPLIFY is a five-year philanthropic initiative to improve the long-term financial resilience and wellbeing of tamariki and rangatahi in Aotearoa. By 2030, we want to see financial education programmes reaching significantly more young people across New Zealand - especially those who are underserved. See our goals.