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In this Nation Builder gathering of corporate funders and NPOs, Paul Pereira gets philanthropy consultant…
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South Africa Strategic social investment is more than the traditional concept of charity and philanthropy;…
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Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is often used interchangeably with other concepts like corporate social responsibility…
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Some companies, especially larger ones, create nominally independent trusts or foundations to manage their CSI….
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Join 300 of us on Thursday 25th March 2021 for the launch of Nation Builder’s…
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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…
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The Tiger Brands Foundation has released its 2020 annual report, detailing its in-school nutrition programme…
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WHAM! Media thanks all our clients, partners, suppliers, and readers for your wonderful support this…
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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…
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Social investment spend is likely to crash over the next years because of SA’s economic…
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The reasons for people and their companies giving to good causes include a sense of…
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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…
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Emergency funding for NGOs is available from the Mergon “Gap Fund” for: NPOs whose operational…
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Non-profit organisation fundraising is a very competitive space in terms of corporate social investment (CSI),…
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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…