From the CE: Explore our new Rātā website
Nau mai, haere mai.
Welcome to our last edition of Rātā Connect for 2024.
As we begin the countdown to Christmas at Rātā, we are also looking ahead to 2025 and how we will continue our mahi to empower people to thrive.
One way we do this is by providing access to quality information, resources, and impact stories alongside our funding.
We recently refreshed our Rātā website, last updated in 2015. Our website is vital in facilitating information about our funding and resources to strengthen community organisations, communicating impact, and providing transparency to our community and financial investment mahi.
The updates we have made to the website ensure that visitors can easily navigate it and that it is responsive to desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. We have introduced functions that provide clear calls to action and interactive elements to communicate our purpose and impact and enhance your user experience.
We want users to leave the website with a better understanding of who Rātā is, our purpose, what we do, and how we do it.
Sharing our learning and approaches is important to ensure you have the right tools and information to apply for funding, strengthen your organisation, and stay informed of new developments and stories.
We have put a lot of thought into how we can better facilitate those tools through our new Funding and Resources sections.
Our resources have been designed to support you whether you are new to the funding environment or looking to extend your organisation’s impact in the community.
As you explore the website and engage with our new content, we value feedback on how we might add value to the user experience.
Another exciting development has been the launch of our Rātā Invest website. It sits alongside the Rātā Foundation website – www.ratafoundation.org.nz - and is a vehicle to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to transparency, accountability, and keeping our stakeholders informed of Rātā investment mahi.
It showcases Rātā dedication to channelling our investments towards generating enduring and sustainable revenue through highly responsible means, all to uplift the communities we stand behind.
The website has been designed to be user-friendly, interactive, and informative. You can browse through our portfolio of investments, learn why we invest, and learn what we seek to achieve. You can also access our annual reports, impact stories, and evaluation reports to see how we measure and improve our performance and impact. It can also be accessed through our main website on the Investments page.
On behalf of the Board and Staff at Rātā – I wish you and our communities Meri Kirihimete, kia haumaru te noho, e hoa mā – stay safe, my friends.
Leighton Evans
Chief Executive