Our Achievements

SPARK $100k Challenge 2010

Out of 65 entries the P3 Foundation made the cut as one of the 13 finalists chosen by a panel of judges to compete for the $100k prize pool. P3 participated in an intense eight-week programme of training, workshops and mentoring, valued at over $5,000 per team. This opportunity proved worthwhile in developing plans to ensure our success in the years to come.

The Social Enterprise Competition 2010

Sponsored by New Zealand Post Group, this was the inaugural Social Enterprise Competition that brought together high school students to develop solutions for alcohol abuse in their communities.

Teams of high school students used the Drucker In Schools Project Management Framework provided by Save the Children to produce solutions that were presented to a panel of judges. Each team was inspired through the process but there could only be one winner; Team MARJ from Mount Roskill Grammar. The prize was $1500 to implement their solution.

Team MARJ organized an alcohol expo at their school hall that attracted over 500 people. The expo consisted of a range of alcohol related stands including one from the Auckland Medical School and one giving out mock tails.

Look out for the Social Enterprise Competition 2011!

U.N. Millennium Development Goals Summit Delegation 2010

The P3 Foundation sent a group of 12 Kiwis to New York to participate in the MDG Summit by touring New York and Washington D.C. and meeting with World leaders in poverty eradication including Helen Clarke and Melinda Gates.

The delegation was inspired by the experience and learnt a lot about how to achieve the MDGs.

The MDGs are a series of 8 targets adopted by world leaders in September 2000, to be achieved by 2015:

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  2. Achieve universal primary education
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women
  4. Reduce child mortality
  5. Improve maternal health
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  7. Ensure environmental sustainability
  8. Develop a global partnership for development

The delegates launched the “Can You Handle the Jandal?” campaign designed to increase the awareness of young New Zealanders about the MDGs. Within weeks it got 500 signatures.

Pay Fair Trade Forward 2010

Supported by Esquires Coffee, Oxfam, Global Poverty Project, and the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Pay Fair Trade forward was an exciting social experiment that is set to be a success from year to year.

Here’s what happened on Friday the 14th of May:

  1. Participants went into an Esquires Coffee shop that sells Fair Trade drinks like coffee or hot chocolate.
  2. Participants bought a Fair Trade drink as a gift for the next person. So when the next person came to buy a coffee, they were informed that they already have a Fair Trade one paid for them.
  3. The experiment was a success because customers continued to “pay Fair Trade forward” and bought the next person a Fair Trade drink too!

The idea was reported on national T.V. and three months later Starbucks announced it would become 100% Fair Trade in 2011.