About the Jester Foundation

The Jester Foundation (formally, the Jester 003 Charitable Trust) is a registered New Zealand charitable trust. It was founded by Richard Abbott and Gill Newland on the 5th August, 2009.

The foundation donates to social ventures that improve the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.

We support initiatives that maximize the humanitarian impact of every dollar spent.

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We look for outstanding leadership and compelling, quantitative evidence of a venture's impact. We make unrestricted donations to support social ventures' sustainable, long-term growth.

​​The trustees draw upon the work of Jasmine Social Investments to make their donation decisions.

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Portfolio

In the last 12 months (as at December 2021) we were honoured to support the following extraordinary organisations: 

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• Bridge Liberia

• Healthy Learners

• Integrate Health

• One Acre Fund (OAF) and Focusing Philanthropy's Planting Trees for Resilience

With two new additions to our portfolio: 

• food4education

• GGEM Farming

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June 2021 round: 

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• One Heart Worldwide

• Kidogo

• Noora Health

• Development Media International (DMI)

• mothers2mothers (m2m)

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Contact

PLEASE NOTE that we operate on a referral basis. We obtain information about social ventures from our partner philanthropic foundations. 

Accordingly, we DO NOT ACCEPT unsolicited applications for donations directly from social ventures. We are unable to respond to such requests.

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For other, general inquiries, please complete the form below: