Greater Good South Africa

Tuesday, February 7th 2012

GreaterGood’s CEO, Bridgit Evans, wonders why the Lottery mess has been allowed to go on so long, given the numbers employed by civil society organisations and South Africa’s huge job creation challenges. Recently, I attended a fascinating economics lecture delivered by UCT’s Development Policy Research Unit entitled, South African Labour Market Challenges.  I discovered something I thought was important to share. The sectors ...

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Monday, February 6th 2012

The last few weeks have been all about NPOs in crisis and calls on the government to sort out the Lottery and the Department of Social Development. We’ve known for some time that the non profit sector is in the grip of the most serious and protracted funding crisis since before the end of apartheid. At the same time, the latest World Giving Report ranks South Africa at ...

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Monday, February 6th 2012

The GreaterCapital research, evaluation and due diligence team were delighted to receive confirmation from NPO client, PROTEC Tongaat, that the monitoring and evaluation system they helped develop has improved learner performance. Marion Takis, PROTEC Tongaat’s Manager emailed to say: “I don’t know if you remember helping us with an M&E system but I just wanted to share with you how effective it has ...

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Monday, February 6th 2012

Save the 7th and 8th May for the SA network for Impact Investing (SAII) conference 2012. With the theme Investing for inclusive growth: opportunities, risks and rewards, the conference will bring together asset managers, impact investors, social purpose businesses and intermediaries to get to grips with developments this rapidly developing field. Save the date for the SAII Conference 2012 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg. There has been ...

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Monday, February 6th 2012

With its 2011 matric results, COSAT (the Centre of Science and Technology), a high school in Khayelitsha, achieved the remarkable distinction of being the first township school to be ranked in the top ten Western Cape schools, standing alongside well-known, established schools such as SACS and Westerford. We spoke to Helen ...

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