Bits and bobs for the common good
As the festive season approaches, it is often a time of giving. With Strate Charity…
Learning from America – and what we could teach
JP Landman, Nedbank Private Wealth’s political analyst, is on a four-month stint as a Public…
Charity Needs Organising
IN A world in which the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” remains a…
Nation Builder – Encouraging Great CSI Ground-up
While too many of South Africa’s long-established corporate social investment (CSI) foundations, trusts and programmes…
Changing Hands – Donor Support to NPOs Between 1998 and 2011.
Douglas Racionzer compares funding for the citizen sector in South Africa between 1998 and 2011,…
The interested social investor
We’re living at a time pleasant in its emphasis on societal wellbeing and on everyone…
A brave spirit in social change
Last week saw the launch of a new social change initiative called “Dignify”. There wouldn’t…
Hash tags, slacktivists and real change
Sarah Britten talks about the possibilities, the mirages, and the limits, of societal changes driven…
Charitable CSI is okay
There’s a nicely put-together online debate hosted by The Economist under the rubric “CSR has…
Anglo’s CSI gives back
It’s curious how many companies spend so much publicising their societal good works, yet don’t…
Your CSI isn’t news
Wouldchabelieveit? Almost everywhere you look, companies are boasting of their social investments in ways that…
NPOs and the enemy within
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini must wonder what’s just hit her. There she is, happily…
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