Fund a Community Power Future.
Build local energy resilience today — and strengthen a framework designed to scale community benefit through a community-led model.
Who this is for
Organisations and individuals who can resource or amplify WE Share:
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Why fund WE Share
Equitable Access
Ensuring equitable access to community energy benefits.
Community Hubs
Supporting clean energy and resilience solutions for community hubs.
Measurable Impact
Real, measurable benefit for local people.
Replicable Model
A framework that can be adapted and replicated by other communities.
Transparent Governance
Clear stewardship, transparent governance, and accessible reporting. Your funding supports clean energy and local resilience today — while strengthening a framework that enables broader community wellbeing into the future.
Your funding supports clean energy and local resilience today — while building a model that can support broader community wellbeing into the future.
What WE Share offers
- Community contribution and participation already in place
- Clear community outcomes connected to every contribution
- Impact reporting and visibility options
- Co-design opportunities with community
- Demonstrated community-led innovation and sector alignment
Protecting Community Sovereignty
To maintain independence and uphold community-first principles, WE Share operates under safeguards that ensure funding aligns with local benefit:
- Community-led decision-making remains independent
- Funding must align with community-first values
- Terms must avoid commercial capture
- Agreements remain transparent and ethical
Community-First Principle: Funding must support local benefit and independence — always.
Ways to support
Grants & contributions
Sponsorship of resilience hubs
In-kind materials or expertise
Impact-aligned investment enquiries
Proof it’s working
Growing Installed Capacity
Community-owned solar and battery systems are already operating on Waiheke through the families, organisations, and partners participating in the WE Share framework. As more households and community sites engage, the shared benefit grows — including the expansion of the 50-unit pilot now underway.
School Resilience Installation
A major school-site resilience installation is completed and operating, with planning underway for an upgrade that will further strengthen community benefit as deployment scales.
Trusted Collaboration
WE Share collaborates with trusted organisations including Ecotricity, Our Energy, SEANZ, and local community hubs — aligning innovation pathways with community benefit and local expertise.
Why now ?
Extreme weather, growing energy demand, and aging grid infrastructure are already impacting Waiheke — every year of delay increases vulnerability. WE Share has the framework, the partnerships, and a ready community. Early funders help accelerate real clean-energy resilience today, while proving a model others can follow.