NZIM is looking for projects that could be funded through the Management Focus fund. The fund is designed to support projects that are aligned with the themes and objectives of Management Focus.
Management Focus 2008 wants to:
1. Get managers or business owners started on the journey by encouraging them to be aspirational and have personal development plan.
2. Provide the tools for managers/business owners engagement through mass collaboration of relevant agencies to optimise our collective resources.
3. Maintain momentum and keep people on the journey by fostering commitment to capability development.
The funding for any single application is capped at maximum of $50,000 (GST exclusive). Larger projects that can demonstrate significant component of co-funding from another source will also be considered. The first funding allocations will be made in early 2008. Applications, from either individuals or organisations, will be judged against the following criteria and will be available for projects which:
• are consistent with and further the achievement of the Government’s management and business capability development objectives;
• coordinate management and business capability development between and across the public and private sectors;
• do not crowd out private sector activity and accelerate and complement the development of private sector alternatives;
• complement and coordinate with the activities of other government programmes;
• respond to the different needs of firms, including Maori and Pacific Island firms;
• raise demand for management and business capability development;
• align the supply of management and business capability development services with firm’s needs and improve the quality and/or quantity of management and business capability development services;
• are primarily New Zealand based, but which may, on case-by-case basis, include research and the development of programmes with Australian authorities; and
• improve the market for management and business capability development, as opposed to funding individual firms or groups of firms.
Applications for this round will close at 5pm on Monday 18 February 2008, with the awards to be made shortly after that. Applications must be submitted on the application form, which, along with the Fund’s criteria, are on the Management Focus (www.managementfocus.org.nz) and NZIM websites (www.nzim.co.nz). The fund is being managed by NZIM National Office on behalf of the Business Capability Partnership.
For further information about
the Management Focus Fund,
email [email protected].
