Mr Bill Holland, of Tauranga, CNZM for services to community governance and philanthropy
Bill Holland helped found the Acorn Foundation in 2003 and chaired it until 2011. He remains an ambassador for the organisation, which has gifted more than $16.5 million to the community. He became a Trustee of the Tauranga Energy Community Trust in 2012 and is current Chairperson. He is a Trustee of the Assisting Different Abilities Peoples Trust (ADAPT) Trust, playing a key role in acquiring a site to build homes for individuals with intellectual disabilities, and the Wright Family Foundation.He was a founding Trustee of the Legacy Trust and remains involved in the Trust’s distributions of more than $3.5 million to date. Mr Holland received one of three inaugural Life Memberships granted to the founding ambassadors of the Community Foundation of New Zealand.