Challenging “partnership” in a Covid world
In this Nation Builder gathering of corporate funders and NPOs, Paul Pereira gets philanthropy consultant…
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…
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),…
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….
SA’s unique social investment history
Opening address by Paul Pereira to the annual Nation Builder “In Good Company” conference, Pretoria, 15 August 2017. The…
CSI is Voluntary, but Feel Encouraged
By Paul Pereira We sometimes think about “business” as a thing, when it’s really just…
CSI’s Multiplyer Benefits to Government
By Paul Pereira As we discussed HERE, corporate social investment (CSI) in essentially a voluntary…
South Africa’s CSI Reporting Often Misleads – Study
While criticism at claims made about community development and project delivery usually focuses on the…
When CEOs Do Well by Doing Good
By Michelle Matthews Companies are increasingly called upon to demonstrate values that go beyond marketing…
Graceful exit from CSI
By Karen Krakowitzer Whether for reasons of morality, employee and consumer pressure, mandates of the…
An NGO’s Crisis Turnaround
By Karen Johnston Just two years ago there was public consternation at the imminent closure…
We must encourage CSI troublemakers
By Jillian Reilly For me the combined 20th anniversary of democracy in South Africa and…
A Time for Nation Building
A people in mourning has a profound opportunity to honour its Founding Father with a…
A time for Nation Building
A people in mourning has a profound opportunity to honour its Founding Father with a…
What difference does CSI make?
South African companies directed R7.8 billion in cash, goods and services to corporate social investment…
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