The Youth Impact Foundation exists to drive meaningful change in youth mental health, wellbeing, and leadership. We provide impactful experiences for young people, teachers, and communities across Aotearoa, New Zealand, through camps, in-person programmes, and digital resources.
Rangatahi
Youth Charities
We believe in an equitable future where all young people thrive and have access to support and programmes that allow them to care for themselves, their peers, and their communities.
Critically, over 50% of our programmes reached young people facing barriers to accessing support.
Over 50% of all programme participants come from our three priority cohort focus areas. We increase equity and access for young people in these cohorts through financial support of their participation, their schools participation and where appropriate relevant travel costs. This financial support comes from one of our three scholarship funds directly addressing each cohort.
Over The Last 12 months
162,350
Young People
Impacted
1098
Schools
996
Programmes or
events
To achieve this vision The Youth Impact Foundation delivers evidence-based preventative mental health and wellbeing programmes across camps, programmes, and digital formats. These are offered in schools, communities, and families, with subsidised access for people experiencing disadvantage.
We grow our impact by consolidating youth charities, which increase affordability and access to high-quality, life-changing mental health programmes for youth.
The Youth Impact Foundation is a registerd charity with the charities comission.
Despite numerous well-intentioned efforts, rates of youth suicide and mental ill-health remain alarmingly high, particularly among disadvantaged and marginalised young people. New Zealand has one of the worst youth suicide rates in the OECD (1).
Schools are reporting more relational issues between young people than ever before. Prevention and early intervention are paramount if we want to reduce the lifetime prevalence of mental health disorders.4
Rates of psychological distress are highest in young people aged 15–24 years, with one in five (21.2%) experiencing high or very high levels of psychological distress
74% of young people reported their mental health was worse since COVID-19.(3)
Over 75% of mental health issues occur before the age of 25,1 and 50% of mental health disorders begin before the age of 14 years.
we have a big goal
Direct Impact Through Scalable Programmes To Young People
Sector-Wide Transformation Through Collaboration and Consolidation
Recognising the inefficiencies of duplication across the sector, we are building a scalable, open-source model that creates economies of scale, empowering the entire youth charity sector and maximising impact. We achieve this by:
Through a rigorous due diligence process, we integrate organisations aligned to our mission, into the Youth Impact Foundation. Our centralised service model provides shared service delivery of programmes with experts in facilitation and event management helping organise and deliver programmes. This model also provides talent retention, succession planning, and professional development opportunities.
We actively build relationships with other youth organisations and facilitate a network for resource sharing, knowledge exchange, and the creation of communities of practice that strengthen the sector.
Our model is further strengthened by growing social enterprise revenue streams. Currently, over 60% of our revenue comes from programme and delivery fees. We are actively working to increase this number to 95% of social enterprise revenue by 2030 to help ensure long-term sustainability by reducing the reliance on funders.
Integrated organisations retain their brand identity and programme delivery within the Youth Impact Foundation family of programmes while realising significant benefits, including a 20.51% reduction in operating costs, a 57.47% increase in revenue, and a 17.59% increase in net profit (in relation to sales), leading to funding diversification, long-term sustainability, and greater capacity for innovation.
This model demonstrates our cyclical approach to systems change.
By reducing the number of fragmented charities and fostering sector-wide collaboration, we:
Each of our brands at The Youth Impact Foundation used to be a stand-alone organisation. Through our unique model and after a rigorous due diligence process they have integrated into the Foundation whilst maintaining their programme delivery and brand to the market.
Each brand delivers an increasing number of protective factor focused strengths based programmes that equip young people with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to thrive.
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Launch Foundation
Mātua Trust
Jones Foundation
Home Foundation
Benchmark Homes
Monic Holdings
We have ambitious fundraising targets as we journey towards self sustainability. We would love your support to make this possible.
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