Back The Arts Through Business

Business is creative, and requires courage and investment. So do the arts in New Zealand.

RCP's Jack Bourke (cultural engagement guru Head of Strategic Development and part time Opera singer) with Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi General Manager / Kaiwhakahaere Jessica Palalagi

Being 100% funded by individuals and business, the Foundation offers a great way to ‘do business’:

Connect with a growing collective of givers (Kotahi)
- Key markets: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown & Wanaka, Dunedin and Hawkes Bay
Gain access to Aotearoa New Zealand’s greatest arts talent for your teams and clients
Make a difference by engaging your market in the value of creativity
Mentor artists with financial, marketing and growth skills
Brand association to a high net-worth market across the country, as well as a growing creativity follower database

One New Zealand is proud to continue its support of the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Our vision is to create a better connected Aotearoa, and the arts plays an important role to inspire, uplift, and connect us all. We also believe in celebrating the best of New Zealand, and sharing that success broadly. The Laureate Awards provide an amazing platform to do this. Congratulations to all the Laureates from the team at One NZ.”

Jason Paris, CEO, One New Zealand

Our Partnership Levels

Stuff and Sunday Star Times, proud sponsors of the 2023 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Awards Party.

Strategic Partnership

One NZ and Stuff currently lead the way, with two more spots available. You go everywhere with us, on our website, our e-newsletters, all invitations, and we co-create leverage opportunities with specific programmes you’re interested in.

Major Partners

We’ll organize a special kaupapa for you to drive with us. The Symphony Centre has come on board to help reground the Aotea Arts Quarter in the arts. This is where we do all our events in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Product Partners

We have a growing collective of givers across the country, and we love to share sample products at our events, or send gifts through snail mail and digitally to showcase brands that care about creativity and the arts in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Request a Partnership Pack

Join our Kotahi Business Club

If you are passionate about showing your commitment to the arts, but aren’t at a commercial partnership level, we offer 20 spots in the Kotahi Business Club for a year of exposure to the arts for your business, staff and clients.

For $5,000*
you will:
- Secure one of 20 spots in the Business Club
- Secure 6 x tickets to our sell-out annual Laureate Awards Party in Auckland in Spring. You’ll join an incredible crowd of arts givers and artists – celebrating the new Laureates and Springboard recipients.
- Be invited to exclusive (and small) Kotahi events across the country, year round; getting up close with New Zealand’s most outstanding artists.
- Your business will be recognised on the Arts Foundation website with your logo and have the ability to promote to our amazing Kotahi network – alongside brands like Craggy Range, Sans [ceuticals], Stuff, Observatory Hotel, QT New Zealand, and more.
*$4,000 is a donation, $500 is a membership fee.
Count us in – email Todd
For $10,000*
you will:
- Secure 1 of 20 tables
  ($5000 each) at our Arts Gala – a premium black tie event in Auckland or Christchurch, 30 May 2025
- Secure 10 x tickets to our sell-out annual Laureate Awards Party in Auckland in Spring. You’ll join an incredible crowd of arts givers and artists – celebrating the new Laureates and Springboard recipients.
- Be invited to exclusive (and small) Kotahi events across the country, year round; getting up close with New Zealand’s most outstanding artists.
- Your business will be recognised on the Arts Foundation website in the Business Club, with your logo and have the ability to promote to our amazing Kotahi network – alongside brands like Craggy Range, Sans [ceuticals], Stuff, Observatory Hotel, QT New Zealand, and more.
*$6,000 of your gift is a direct purchase that comes with GST, $4,000 is a donation
Count us in – email Todd

Sinead Boucher, Owner and Publisher of Stuff.

As an independent media company built on great journalism and storytelling, we celebrate the strength of the Arts Foundation, an organisation as committed to reflecting Aotearoa today as we are at Stuff. We support the creativity of the Laureates and look forward to seeing the next generation use this platform to amplify voices and tell their stories, enriching communities and challenging our views.”