Connected Media

Connected Media is a New Zealand based charitable trust founded in 1993.

Our mission is to promote sustainability through media.

There is an urgent need for humanity’s relationship with our planet - and our relationships with each other - to become more respectful and balanced.

That is Connected Media’s understanding of what sustainability is all about. It embraces environmental and health issues, social and economic development, human rights and peace.

We promote sustainability by communicating information and ideas through the powerful media of film, television and the Internet.

It has often been said that sustainability is a journey, not a destination. While on that journey we think it is important that people talk the walk.

With the digital revolution everyone can create as well as consume media. We have moved from the information age to an era of global media participation.

Participation is also a key to global sustainability. Active, informed citizenship is vital for the necessary changes to take place.

So our objective is to help grow a generation of enterprising, digital-savvy young people who are focussing their creative energy and self-expression on the big issue of their time – sustainability.

A generation that talks the walk.

TEAR Fund NZ

TEAR Fund is a Christian based NGO. For over 30 years TEAR Fund has worked through child sponsorship, microenterprise, community development and disaster relief projects throughout the developing world. Assistance is provided regardless of the religious beliefs of recipients.

TEAR Fund partners with local Christian organisations and churches in developing countries. Our partners use local staff who work directly with the poorest people, helping them find their own solutions, cutting out the middleman and reducing costs. Our key activities are child sponsorship, microenterprise, community development projects and disaster relief. 

In partnering with The Outlook for Someday TEAR Fund aims to encourage young people to participate in sharing their stories and ideas about how we can all participate in building a more sustainable world for all, including the poorest.

New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values.

UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO is appointed and funded by the New Zealand Government to promote UNESCO’s vision, goals and programmes within New Zealand and the Pacific.

UNESCO is the lead agency for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), running from 2005 to 2014.

The Outlook for Someday embodies the spirit of DESD which promotes the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future.

We are proud to be partnering with the film challenge for a second year and we are pleased that the project has been endorsed by UNESCO internationally to carry the logo of DESD.

The Outlook for Someday provides a great opportunity for young people to express themselves on a range of subjects from climate change to social justice. We believe it has the potential to become an international film challenge for young people around the world.

The Enviroschools Foundation

The Enviroschools Foundation is a not-for-profit trust that enables children and young people to be active citizens contributing to ecological regeneration, social change and the creation of healthy and sustainable communities.

The Foundation’s programmes include:

• Enviroschools
  A whole school approach in schools and early childhood centres with strong links into the community.
• Te Aho Tu Roa (the long standing thread)
  Working with tamariki and rangatahi, whānau, hapū and iwi through kura and wharekura.
• Youth and Community
  Post school youth and community initiatives.

The programmes are implemented regionally in partnership with a network of over 60 organisations.

In less than 10 years Enviroschools has gone from being a seed funded project to a nationwide movement. It now includes 783 schools, kura and early childhood centres – 27% of all New Zealand schools and over 225,000 children and young people.

Enviroschools was a founding partner of The Outlook for Someday in 2007 and we are pleased to be involved with the film challenge again this year.