The R100 000 prize in the 2009 South African Breweries (SAB) KickStart Entrepreneurial Development Programme competition has been won by a KwaZulu-Natal co-op. 20 Nov 2009 12:19
The Legacy Group has launched its social responsibility initiative, Legacy Pride as an anti-crime initiative to encourage all South Africans to unite and act against crime. The concept has two components - plush toy animals and a board game. 20 Nov 2009 09:47
Standard Bank has assisted the Durban Christian Centre by contributing R2 million this week towards its peer education training and the development of the HIV/AIDS enhancement management programme. 19 Nov 2009 10:31
Bank enters into long-term agreement to sponsor Africa's beautiful game. 18 Nov 2009 12:35
Foozi is designing and donating a fully branded foosball table to a children's home in Durban, just in time for Christmas. The design will feature 400 personalised messages, photographs and designs from Foozi fans all around the world. 17 Nov 2009 10:56
Sasol is to establish recycling areas at its forecourts, with the pilot starting in Gauteng at Sasol Ferndale and a national rollout over a period of 12-18 months thereafter. The project is in partnership with Petco, a company established with the specific objective of promoting and improving waste management and recycling. 16 Nov 2009 09:33
The inaugural Nedbank Green Wine Awards, announced on Wednesday 11 November 2009, continued the green theme into the awards event. 16 Nov 2009 09:08
"South African domestic agencies for non-governmental funding, like the National Development Agency and the National Lotteries, have been criticised as highly inefficient, staffed by poorly-trained and under-qualified workers, and overly bureaucratic in their decision-making,” stated Gara LaMarche, president and chief executive of Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest foundations in the world. 9 Nov 2009 08:32
Hundreds of men recently converged on Emperors Palace for the You Can Count On Me Conference - part of a project which has been running since 2007 to train men around the country to start conversations with other men about Preventing Mother To Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT). 8 Nov 2009 23:47
"The Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards give South Africans the chance to thank those people who have and are making a difference," says Gillian Mitchell, manager of Inyathelo's Philanthropy Programme at the occasion of the 2009 awards held in Cape Town on Tuesday 3 November 2009. 5 Nov 2009 12:04
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Free-to-air TV station e.tv this year joined forces with Edcon Group to take the seven-year-old Jet Community Awards to another level - to create awareness around community projects participation and give exposure to those who are working hard under difficult conditions to improve the lives of ‘forgotten' people living in socially-disadvantaged areas of Southern Africa. 5 Nov 2009 08:20
At the Inyathelo conference on ‘Our World: Our Responsibility' held on Tuesday 3 November 2009 in Cape Town, philanthropist and supporter of the Red Cross Children's hospital in Cape Town, Amanda Bloch, criticised the tunnel vision of government departments and called for SARS to develop policies that support philanthropy. 4 Nov 2009 11:11
At the fourth Mail & Guardian ‘Investing in the Future' awards ceremony held last week, Absa won the Company Partnership Award for its Casual Day campaign. 3 Nov 2009 11:43