What is Boost Ōtautahi?

Boost Ōtautahi is back for 2024! Thanks to our partners at Rātā Foundation and Creative NZ we have 11 opportunities for creative organisations in Ōtautahi to secure $5,000 of match funding towards a crowdfunding campaign.  This year, we want to involve a diverse range of creative organisations, to each run a crowdfunding campaign to enable local arts projects.  
Projects are being reviewed as we receive expressions of interest, with the hard close date of Wednesday 31 July 2024.  

Boost Ōtautahi… What's it all about?

Boost Ōtautahi is a campaign where 11 diverse arts organisations will launch in unison, crowdfunding for a month on Boosted to get the funding to complete a creative project. We want the Ōtautahi arts community to thrive with an abundance of support and celebration, and for the broader community to be involved in this experience.

The Boosted team are with you for the journey, helping you grow your crowd and your capability through crowdfunding, empowering you with skills you'll find useful towards making art for years to come. Along with our crowdfunding mentorship, we'll be running a workshop with all the artists/arts organisations involved in Boost Ōtautahi, organising a launch event to be held at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, and building energy and hype around Boost Ōtautahi through marketing channels.

This year, each of the 11 organisations will be backed with a Boost Ōtautahi match fund that is unlocked dollar for dollar as they reach out to their crowd with their ask.
If you're a creative (part of a collective/organisation) in Christchurch, with an arts project that needs a boost to get off the ground, then you are eligible to apply. 
 

Here's what you could be in for, and what's up for grabs:

• 11 x $5,000 match funds - Must be for arts organisations that can meet rātā foundation or CNZ guideline
• Marketing, community building and fundraising skills from Boosted
• Each project will be given a platform to publicly promote their project at the Boost community event
• A way to connect with and expand your giving community this September

The expression of interest is an easy process. Just touch base with us. Send us a quick email at kiaora@boosted.org.nz to express your interest in Boost Ōtautahi to arrange for a phone chat with one of our team about your project.

Funds will be allocated by 2 August 2024 and project owners will be asked to attend a workshop on 6 August 2024, to ensure readiness to launch a Boosted campaign on 1 September 2024.

If you are an artist, collective or organisation in Ōtautahi Christchurch with a creative project, get in touch today at kiaora@boosted.org.nz!

How does the match funding work?

• The match funds from Boost Ōtautahi will be loaded into each Boosted campaign as a match donor in advance of the project going live. When the project is live on Boosted, the match fund will match donations from the crowd dollar-for-dollar, up until the match fund as been used up. For more on how match funds work, read this.
• It’s all-or-nothing. Projects must reach their target to get their funds on Boosted. With a match donor, Boosted has a 95% success rate, so we back all the projects to get funded.
• Each project is supported with the Boosted mentorship, and will participate in the Boost Ōtautahi community event on Wednesday 25 September. 

A little more about Boosted
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only crowdfunding platform dedicated to the arts and creativity. We give creatives the platform, tools, and mentoring to confidently connect with and grow a giving community and we give everyday people a chance to be inspired by and support creatives and their mahi.

We offer one of the highest success rates for crowdfunding platforms in the world, which means creatives who crowdfund on Boosted have a higher chance of meeting their funding goals.

A trusted platform, with over 100,000 donations being made on the site since 2013 to fund over 1600 projects, Boosted has raised over $13 million for NZ artists and creatives. 
Boosted is backed by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi, a collective of artists, donors, and New Zealanders who believe creativity matters and dedicated to celebrating creativity and advocating for a future in which the arts thrive in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Campaign Timeline

• 23 Jul: Expressions of interest open
• 31 Jul:  Expressions of interest close
• 2 Aug  All funds allocated and project owners notified
• 6 Aug: Crowdfunding Workshop  |  Boosted mentorship for all Boost Ōtautahi crowdfunding campaigns, this is where we work with you to get you ready for crowdfunding
• 1 Sept - 28 Sept: Boost Ōtautahi campaign goes live with all crowdfunding projects open for donations on Boosted
• 25 Sept: The big Boost Ōtautahi community event at the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora!