Community and Volunteering Capability Fund (DIA)

Dates

No fixed rounds: apply any time.

What it funds

• A skilled professional to build an organisation's capability
• Youth worker training
• Volunteering projects
• National sector leadership

What it will not fund

• Individuals
• Retrospective projects
• Land, buildings, furniture or fittings
• Profit-making projects
• Debt
• Commercial, political or religious promotion
• New or existing permanent positions (capability priority)

Good to know

Capability and youth worker training requests can go in any time; allow 12 weeks. The capability money pays for a skilled professional, not a permanent role.

Organisational capability and youth worker training are always open; sector leadership and volunteering have one round a year (May to June).

Checklist

What Capability Fund (DIA) says you need:

• Budget (not for organisational capability)
• Financial statements no more than 18 months old
• Quotes and training programme for youth worker training

Common things funders ask for, worth having ready:

• What exactly is the money for, and when will you spend it?
• How much do you need, and do you have quotes under three months old?
• Who benefits, and how many people?
• Your legal name, registration number and bank account in the group's name.
• A committee or board decision approving the application (some funders want a signed resolution).
• Your latest financial statements or annual return.
• Other funders you have applied to for the same thing.

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Sources

What we relied on, in the funder's own words.

• The following priorities are open for requests all the time:communitymatters.govt.nz/community-and-volunteering-capability-fund · read 17 October 2026
• Tahua Āheinga Hapori me te Tūaotanga Always open Allow up to 12 weeks from when you submit your request for a decisioncommunitymatters.govt.nz/important-dia-funding-dates · read 17 October 2026
• The Community and Volunteering Capability Fund provides grants to not-for-profit organisations for services and projects that improve leadership and strengthen the capability and capacity of New Zealand’s diverse community and voluntary sector.communitymatters.govt.nz/community-and-volunteering-capability-fund · read 17 October 2026
• be a legal entity if the application is for $10,000 or more, for any 1 year.communitymatters.govt.nz/community-and-volunteering-capability-fund · read 17 October 2026
• Projects or activities that will directly support one of the fund's 4 priorities.communitymatters.govt.nz/community-and-volunteering-capability-fund · read 17 October 2026
• This funding cannot be used to fund a new or an existing permanent position.communitymatters.govt.nz/community-and-volunteering-capability-fund · read 17 October 2026

Report a mistake

Spot something wrong? Reporting opens when the site launches. Until then, check the funder's own page linked above.