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WINGS contact:

Ms. Colleen du Toit
CEO
Email: cdutoit@cafsouthernafrica.org

Additional contact:

Mbizo Sibanda
Social Investment Manager
Email: msibanda@cafsouthernafrica.org

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CAF Southern Africa is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes and facilitates effective social investment.

Our vision is ‘to make social investment a part of everyday life’

We believe that the non-profit sector plays a vital developmental role by supporting positive social change in marginalised communities. Our ultimate aim is therefore to increase the amount and impact of investment in the non-profit sector.

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We work with individual and corporate donors to increase the resources channelled to the non-profit sector, and with non-profit organisations to assist with effective use of these resources.

Our corporate clients include several of South Africa’s blue-chip companies such as Absa, Advantage Asset Managers, Anglo Gold Ashanti, BHP Billiton, Deloitte, Edcon, Ernst & Young, FirstRand, GlaxoSmithKline, Investec, Liberty Life, Netcare, ACNielsen, Telkom and Sasol.

We work with corporate and individual givers to advise on, manage and increase resources for the non profit sector, and with non profit organisations to ensure resources are put to effective and measurable use for the benefit of communities.

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SOCIAL INVESTMENT SERVICES

We provide an integrated approach to giving and social investment by encouraging dialogue and cooperation across all relevant sectors. We work with social investors and recipients to improve the management and impact of contributed resources. We offer the following specific services:

• Social Investment Policy & Strategy:

We consult to business, government and the non-profit sector to develop community investment policies and strategies. We help companies to meet and exceed their corporate giving objectives in a professional and tax-effective manner.

To support the increasing need for companies’ social accountability in terms of corporate governance and BBBEE codes, we advise on social investment vehicles that will create greater value for companies and social enterprise.

• Social Investment Management & Evaluation

We consult to business, government agencies and the non-profit sector to improve planning, management and evaluation of funded development programmes.

CORPORATE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT BY EMPLOYEES

We promote, manage and administer a variety of corporate community involvement activities:

• Payroll Giving

We promote and manage payroll giving programmes through our ‘Give as you Earn’ (GAYE), programme. This provides a simple mechanism for employees to donate to a cause of their choice. Companies can choose to match employee contributions ‘rand-for-rand’.

• Employee Volunteering and Matched Giving

We promote and manage employee volunteering and matched giving programmes:

Employee Volunteering is becoming an increasingly significant aspect of corporate community engagement, as companies demand new ways of increasing their social role. Companies can support the volunteering efforts of employees in various ways from paid time off to volunteer, to gifts in kind.

Matched Giving provides the opportunity for the company to match time or money contributed by its employees with a cash contribution to the NPO where the employees are volunteering.

GRANTMAKING

We also promote giving by families and individuals:

• Private Foundations and Trusts

We promote establishment of endowed foundations by individuals and families. We advise on legal structure, fiscal issues and funding strategy and management. We can also administer funds and disbursements on behalf of clients.

• Individual Giving

We promote individual giving and we help individual givers to control their giving by offering them advice on giving options, and a safe and effective channel for their contributions.

• Grantmaking

In addition to the grantmaking services associated with our consultancy and administrative activities described above, CAF Southern Africa is a grantmaker in its own right: We have established the CAF Southern Africa Trust which provides South Africans living in the UK with an easy and tax-effective way to donate to South African causes.

We have also created the Eugene Saldanha Memorial Fund in memory of our late founder. Through this vehicle the public is able to make contributions to non-profits working towards social justice.

SUPPORT TO THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR

• NPO Validation

We conduct independent reviews of NPOs so that prospective donors can make informed decisions about their giving and social investment. Accountability of organisations in the civil domain is a pressing issue for funders and other actors. We have developed a database of validated organisations which we can share with clients, and we do validation on request from clients.

• Matching donors/NPOs

Based on the requirements of donors and the needs of organisations in our validated database, we can provide both donors and NPOs with information allowing them to make informed funding partnership decisions.

TRAINING AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• CSI Management

We help corporates to manage their corporate social investment and associated initiatives through on-the-job training.

• NPO Management

We help NPOs to build their fundraising and management capacity in order to maximise financial resources and organisational impact.

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Our approach is founded on authoritative research and innovative practice that draws on both local and international models.

We advocate for a more enabling environment for giving and non-profit sector activity, and we provide information and advice in support of improved policy and practice.

We participate in multi-sectoral coalitions to improve legislation concerning the non-profit sector, and to make giving simpler and more tax-effective.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

To inform our clients and facilitate communication within the social investment sector CAF is currently establishing a website. This will be an online resource of information and contacts for CAF’s clients, partners and other interested entities. We also have a website for employee volunteering.

We produce a quarterly email newsletter, Isiphala Online , which contains information on the activities of CAF’s clients, local and international news, networking opportunities and a variety of social investment resources and links.

CONVENING

Because of our cross-sectoral span we are uniquely placed to bring together a variety of social development actors for the purpose of knowledge sharing, practical cooperation and coalition-building. We host events such as:

• Seminars and Workshops

Independently or with partners we convene meetings to discuss and workshop issues of relevance to funding and social development.

• Conference

CAF Southern Africa hosts a biannual conference on themes critical to social investment, social enterprise, and the sustainability of the non-profit sector.

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