Graduate Women New Zealand (GWNZ) is a non-profit, charitable non-government organisation (NGO) working locally, nationally, and internationally to improve the status of women and girls, to promote lifelong education, and to enable graduate women to use their expertise to effect positive change. Graduate Women Wellington, a branch of GWNZ, operates its own activities including Academic Dress Hire Ltd trading as GradGear. It hires academic regalia for graduation ceremonies, to raise funds for the Graduate Women Wellington Charitable Trust which distributes funds through generous scholarships, grants, and awards.