Craigs will donate $10 for every birdie scored
For every birdie scored across all four days of the tournament, Craigs Investment Partners will donate $10 into a charitable pool, which will be equally shared between two charities – Cure Kids and the Acorn Foundation.
With previous tournaments recording between 1,800 and 3,000 birdies, the potential for impact is huge!
You can also make a donation
This year, the initiative is even bigger with the public having the opportunity to get involved by making their own contributions to Craigs Birdies for Charity.
Donations can be made by:
- Text ‘Birdies’ to 2256 for an instant $3 donation
- Scan the QR code shown during the New Zealand Open TV broadcast to donate an amount of choice via the Birdies for Charity Givealittle page.
You can view the Craigs Birdies for Charity T&Cs here.
Cure Kids
For more than 50 years, Cure Kids has supported research to improve the health and wellbeing of children in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Cure Kids is New Zealand’s largest charitable funder of child health research committed to finding better treatments and preventative strategies for a wide range of serious child health conditions.
Cure Kids has invested more than $65 million in New Zealand research since it formed over 50 years ago, which has helped to shape and vastly improve the way children who live with serious diseases and health conditions are diagnosed and treated. Cure Kids is currently funding around $10 million in child health research across 78 projects and is largest funder of child health research outside the government.
Cure Kids funds child health research across all conditions, including cancer, heart conditions, epilepsy, infectious diseases, cystic fibrosis, sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI), stillbirth, child and adolescent mental health – and many, other areas of research. Research funded by Cure Kids has led to some big breakthroughs in child health including (choose from the following):
- Development of the ‘heel prick test’ to diagnose cystic fibrosis at birth – enabling earlier treatment and increasing life expectancy
- Evidence and advice which has led to the prevention at least 200 sudden unexpected deaths in infancy every year (and many more around the world)
- Discovering a potential treatment for a terrible neurodegenerative condition called Batten disease
- Discovering some of the genes which cause epilepsy in children, allowing for more accurate diagnosis and better treatments for children, parents, and their families
- Discovering that women who sleep on their side during pregnancy can reduce the risk of stillbirths by 50%
- Proof that when women take vitamin D during pregnancy it helps to prevent childhood respiratory infections in their children
Acorn Foundation
The Acorn Foundation is a community foundation based in the Western Bay of Plenty focussed on enabling generous people to make a bigger impact in their communities. By establishing an endowment fund in accordance with the donors’ wishes to support the local community, funds are invested, and returns are distributed to causes that matter – forever.
Donations are pooled and invested, and the investment income is used to make annual donations to local charities, while the capital remains intact.
Since 2003, the Acorn Foundation has distributed over $16.5M to the Western Bay of Plenty community and beyond, supporting the work of more than 260 local charities.
This year, the Vital Impact Fund supported organisations in the food rescue and support area, including:
- Tauranga Community Foodbank
- Good Neighbour
- Super Support
- The Hub Te Puke
- Under the Stars
- Ōtūmoetai Social Supermarket
- Kura Kai
Each of these organisations provides an integral role in assuring that our region has residents that are well-provided with food.
Community foundations are the fastest growing form of philanthropy worldwide, and there are now 17 located across New Zealand, with more than 85% of New Zealanders able to access a local foundation.