Clare today announced the appointment of Jan Logie to the role of Strategic Funding Lead – Women.

Ms Logie’s career spans decades in leadership roles centered around women and wellbeing – including the YWCA and Hutt Valley Youth Health Service (now known as VIBE) – as well as overseeing high-profile portfolios in the community sector, human rights, social development, women, children, local government and immigration during her time in Parliament.

Clare Foundation founder Anna Stuck says that Jan brings a depth of experience and wealth of understanding in the women’s space.

We are thrilled to have such an experienced and inspiring wahine toa like Jan join the Foundation. Jan’s decades of incredible mahi in the women’s space is exactly what we are looking for in order to take our own mahi to the next level at Clare.

The appointment signals the completion of Clare’s line up of individual strategic lead experts across the four areas of focus, according to Alice Montague, CEO at Clare. “The mana that Jan also holds is very special and will enhance our wider team in so many ways.”

Ms Logie says she is excited to join Clare “as they are the only funder in Aotearoa with a strategic focus on opportunities for women. What a dream to get to support this work and help empower our communities to lead the change for a better world.”

Clare has funded a multitude of initiatives in the women-focused space including the Mind the Gap campaign, End Women’s Homelessness Coalition, Māia Collective and PACIFICA.

Anne Marie Maikuku, Strategic Lead for Oral Health at Clare recently travelled to Vancouver to attend the World Health Indigenous Conference ‘Healing Our Spirits’, along with 4,000 other representatives from around the globe, with Aotearoa well represented by380 registered participants.

The ninth gathering provided a platform to explore holistic approaches to health and wellbeing from an indigenous world view.

The gathering upheld the rights to indigenous healing journeys and spanned a multitude of topics including health governance, cultural supports, programme development and implementation, prevention and education, mental health and research.

Anne Marie noted that “understanding the nuances of upholding kaupapa māori helps to identify and articulate the markers to maintain the integrity of kaupapa, on the premise of thinking, knowing, doing and being māori.

The opportunity to realign the power imbalance with western health models was discussed through matauranga māori leading the way for indigenous around the world.

Anne-marie Maikuku has joined the line up of new faces at Clare, as the Strategic Funding Lead for Oral Health.

Her extensive career in the oral health sector spans roles as a dental hygiene and oral health therapist, as well as the Initiative Lead for Pou Waka Niho tautahi via the Waikato DHB, delivering oral health therapy clinical skills to tamariki and rangatahi.

“The passion that Anne-marie has for the future of oral health in Aotearoa, along with the impact she has already contributed in this space, is incredibly impressive and we are excited to have her join us,” says Clare CEO Alice Montague.

Anne-marie’s arrival comes just weeks after the announcement of Robyn Langlands joining as Strategic Funding Lead for the Environment, and Stevie-Jean Gear as Strategic Funding Lead for Youth Wellbeing.