Kiwibank launches campaign to find extraordinary Kiwi Thinking

This advertising feature has been brought to you by Kiwibank.

There are thousands of great ideas out there - ordinary Kiwis doing some extraordinary Kiwi Thinking. Which is why Kiwibank has launched Kiwi Thinking, a campaign to find the best Kiwi ideas.

It could be a way to help your local community, just like target="_blank">Sally's Dinner Angels. Or an idea to help make your day less stressful, like Anna's recipe receiver. Kiwi Thinking is a whole bunch of things really - a new or different way of doing things, challenging ourselves and the status quo.

So whatever your idea, let us know about it, get involved and support great Kiwi Thinking. To send your idea simply click here.

What sort of ideas are Kiwibank looking for?
Do you have an innovative idea, something new, fresh and different? Less of the same-old and more of the 'wow-have-you-seen-that?' Well Sally did with her Dinner Angels idea.

Sally's Dinner Angels brings back that spirit of community by helping volunteers deliver home-cooked hot dinners to people in need in their local area. The idea is all about connecting good-hearted individuals, who don't mind cooking the odd extra hot meal, with local people who need a little bit of help. You'd be surprised how many people this covers. It could be someone elderly, a single parent who gets the flu and needs help feeding the kids one night or someone who's recently had a baby.

Sally has received a huge response to her idea already. Many people have got in touch with Sally and offered their help in making Dinner Angels happen.

Your idea should be elegant, intelligent and well thought out, but refreshingly simple, just like Anna's recipe receiver, a supermarket TXT function offering ideas for recipes and the ingredients needed.

And it should show lateral thinking, looking at a problem from an unexpected angle and solving it in ways that more run-of-the-mill thinking simply can't. Finally, the idea has to be do-able. In New Zealand, the pie is not in the sky, it's in your hand. So the best Kiwi Thinking ideas are usually something that you can have a crack at and achieve.

To find out more about Kiwi Thinking simply click here.