# Our kaupapa Not everyone with a great positive change idea has the capacity or desire to incorporate, register, and manage their own charity entity—but without one, you're locked out of funding opportunities. There is a very real gap, for marginalised communities especially, when it comes to the time, language, and specific knowledge required. Simultaneously, many funders genuinely wish to reach further into communities, but face barriers because they simply can't fund unincorporated groups that don't tick certain boxes. Gift Collective is the bridge; we do the box ticking, benefiting both funders and grant seekers. There are huge inefficiencies in the charity sector in Aotearoa. For every 10,000 people, there are about 15 charities in the US, 24 in the UK and Australia, and 60 in NZ. Each of those charities represents countless hours of admin and paperwork, time that would be better spent on their actual kaupapa. And how many are missing from those stats altogether because they couldn't even start? By mutualising legal and financial structures as a shared resource, we can relieve admin burdens, increase access, and help our limited charity dollars to go further toward what really matters. A lot of groups are already using Open Collective around the world, like meetups, open source software projects, community initiatives, grassroots citizen movements, mutual aid groups, sector or interest-based coalitions, and projects receiving grants. What they have in common is being collectively organised, valuing transparency, and needing to get up and running quickly and easily without getting bogged down in paperwork and admin. But Aotearoa is unique, and Gift Collective is new, so who knows what will emerge! --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.giftcollective.nz/about/our-kaupapa.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.