Launching the Nation Builder impact reporting guide – Join us!
Join 300 of us on Thursday 25th March 2021 for the launch of Nation Builder’s…
Empowerment is about people, not things
Of the many things to get right in excellent social investment, the most difficult is…
SA’s in-school nutrition landscape
The Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF) commissioned Accenture to review in-school nutrition programmes across SA, including…
Nurturing a Nation’s Potential
The Tiger Brands Foundation has released its 2020 annual report, detailing its in-school nutrition programme…
Twenty-Twenty-WON!
WHAM! Media wishes you a fabulous year of learning, growth, and love. And…GO!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
WHAM! Media thanks all our clients, partners, suppliers, and readers for your wonderful support this…
Four things on the path you’ve made
Valedictory Address by Gillian Godsell to the Matric Class of Parktown Girls High School, Johannesburg,…
IN GOOD COMPANY 2020
Nation Builder’s 6th annual IN GOOD COMPANY conference (IGC20) takes place on the mornings of…
Social investment’s coming depression
Social investment spend is likely to crash over the next years because of SA’s economic…
Guilty giving
The reasons for people and their companies giving to good causes include a sense of…
Covid-19: Hunger is never on lockdown
Food security programmes have attracted greater attention from social investors in recent years. This trend…
C19: Social investors in an economic squeeze
SA’s efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus come at a high cost of…
Overview of South African CSI and Philanthropy today
WHAM!’s look at the main findings of Trialogue and Nedbank Private Wealth research. CSI state…
C19: Emergency funding for NPOs
Emergency funding for NGOs is available from the Mergon “Gap Fund” for: NPOs whose operational…
Fundraising in ECD – how to
Non-profit organisation fundraising is a very competitive space in terms of corporate social investment (CSI),…
Sin taxes – the over-reach of doing good
Trying for a healthier citizenry by discouraging the use of legal products like sugar, tobacco…
Reporting social investments to society
Examples of recent SI annual reports managed by WHAM! Media: TIGER BRANDS FOUNDATION – 2019,…
Guide to public reporting of social investment
This collation includes links to best practice guides, codes of conduct, and the related different…
CSI – One of SA mining’s valuable exports
Just doing business – creating jobs, pouring taxes into the fiscus and pulling in foreign…
The miner’s charity begins at home
South Africa’s private sector-led social investment work is carried disproportionately by the mines, as has…
When companies claim the CSI success of others
When companies are serious about their good giving through corporate social investment (CSI), they monitor…
Understanding CSI
It’s critical to know the difference between delivery and development. Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is…
CSI: How to choose project partners
With your internal corporate social investment systems in place, company leadership buy-in and strategy sorted,…
CSI: Things to avoid
We can start with pet projects, grand solutions, and funding fashions. Pet projects These are…
CSI: How to assess funding requests
Part of effective and strategic social investment hinges on choosing the right organisation to partner…
Protecting your CSI space in the company
Some companies, especially larger ones, create nominally independent trusts or foundations to manage their CSI….
CSI management and team
People form the backbone of any successful project implementation, and the same applies to corporate…
CSI: Guide per sector
Written for Nation Builder by WHAM! Media’s Karen Johnston and Paul Pereira, the Good Partner…
CSI Benchmarking Tool
South Africa’s free online CSI benchmarking tool. Facilitated and sponsored by Nation Builder, this world-first…
Planning CSI with a business mindset
Now that you’ve decided that your company’s approach to CSI is going to be strategic,…
Monitoring: The cruise control of CSI
Corporate social investment (CSI) that is well managed will be taken as seriously by a…
CSI project evaluation: Looking back at your journey
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a critical part of best practice CSI. It is the…
CSI comms for developmental effect
Cultivating good relationships involves good communication: with each other, as well as with other stakeholders….
The DA is in great danger
Remarks by Paul Pereira to the Democratic Alliance Johannesburg City Councillor strategy workshop, Hunter’s Rest,…
South Africa’s social investment history
Paul Pereira’s 2017 address to Nation Builder on the amazing story of CSI in SA,…