Back The Arts Through Business

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

Givers Bentley de Beyer, Dean Sharpe, and AFTTT Lead Jo Blair at Kotahi drinks Queenstown 2024

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

The Arts Foundation’s investment in our most successful living artists, writers and musicians, as well as those at the beginning of their careers, resonates strongly with Stuff’s mission to have a tangible positive impact on the lives of New Zealanders. Artists shape and reflect our national identity, bringing a richness to our daily lives that is needed now more than ever. It is a privilege to support Te Tumu Toi and to tell their stories.”

Our Partnership Levels

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 Arts Business Club

If you are passionate about showing your commitment to the arts, but aren’t at a commercial partnership level, we offer 25 spots in the Arts Business Club for a year of exposure to the arts for your business, staff and clients.

For $5,000
You will:
- Secure one of 25 spots in the Arts 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 across The Arts Foundation website 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.
Count us in – email Todd

Meet our Arts Business Club

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.”

Jason Paris, CEO, One New Zealand