The Christchurch Foundation helps create, support and build the foundations for a better Ōtautahi Christchurch, and the surrounding Selwyn and Waimakriri Districts.Community (City) Foundations are relatively common-place around the world and many other regions in New Zealand have recognised the need for a "place-based" charitable organisation to enable donors to give directly to their city or region. The Christchurch Foundation actively collects, manages and distributes funds for community projects, charities, causes and not-for-profits (both large and small) in delivering the important work that they provide.A wide range of giving programmes is available to enable contributions to the long-term good of communities, such as bequests, endowments, diaspora or expat giving and corporate partner programmes. Donors' contributions can be ‘ tagged' to a sector (e.g. recreation and sport community projects), community within the geographic area (e.g. Opawa) or to a range of charities. Contributions could also be ‘ untagged' and spent at the discretion of the Foundation Trustees under a developed set of policies. The Foundation will always ensure donor wishes are met.