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Giving is good - 2021 Charity updates
Your partnership with Pathfinder offers the unique opportunity to benefit from our growth because 20% of our management fee goes to the charities we've engaged with.
We have some great news to share. Our charitable donations exceed $100,000!
Pathfinder has grown to $80 million and we’re very excited about the commitment from our fast-growing number of members.
Our model for giving: Pathfinder is run as a social enterprise model. Every investor selects one of our 17 charity partners when they sign up. We then pay 20% of our KiwiSaver management fees to their chosen charity.
In the year to 31 March 2021, we are giving $101,950 to our charity partners (up from $15,000 a year ago). We hope to be donating more than double this amount next year.
Below is a list of our charities and the amount they will be receiving.
Forest & Bird: $25,750
Rainbow Youth: $5,050
Mental Health Foundation: $12,250
Melanoma New Zealand: $2,500
Garden to Table: $8,150
Everybody Eats: $1,850
Mens Health Trust: $8,050
Arthritis NZ: $1,750
Youthline: $7,800
Plunket: $1,500
NZ Vegetarian Society: $7,700
Chalky Carr Trust: $1,200
Breast Cancer Cure: $6,200
Tania Dalton Foundation: $550
Project Jonah: $5,750
Leadership NZ: $450
Heart Kids: $5,100
Drug Foundation: $350
In addition to the $101,950 above, we have donated an additional $14,500 across a range of charities which have included some in our charity family and others like the NZ Anti-Vivisection Society and 9 Lives Cat Orphanage.
That takes our total donations for the year to 31 March 2021 to just over $116,450.
by John Berry
Co-Founder, CEO, Member of Ethics & Investment Committee, Director
John is committed to making ethical investment accessible to all NZ investors. Before co-founding Pathfinder in 2009 John worked in law firms and investment banks in Auckland, London and Sydney. He has a BCom/LLB(Hons) from Auckland University and has held a number of board and advisory board roles connected to health, education and venture capital, and is currently on the investment committee for a faith-based organisation. In 2023 John was awarded as the Sustainable Business Networks Sustainability Superstar. In 2024 he was awarded the Sustainability Leadership Award at the Robert Walters New Zealand Leadership Awards.
