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For funders and partners

Fund delivery you can verify. Build evidence of change.

A focused partnership route for corporate CSI teams, trusts, grantmakers and individual donors—with a defined unit cost, school-led scope and reporting pack shaped for your mandate.

Best fitEducation access · Rural development · Youth development · Employee giving

Funding naturePhilanthropic grants and donations. No financial return is offered.

The investment case

A manageable pilot with visible controls.

Early-stage funding carries uncertainty. We reduce ambiguity through a narrow programme, explicit planning assumptions and agreed evidence before delivery begins.

01 / DEFINED

A clear unit

Cost a shoes-and-socks package, a complete school outfit or a full kit before choosing the scale.

02 / LOCAL

School-led scope

Need, dress code, learner identification and handover arrangements are agreed with the school.

03 / TRACEABLE

Documented spend

Supplier quotations, invoices and actual unit costs replace estimates as delivery progresses.

04 / USEFUL

Funder reporting

Receive outputs, expenditure, observed change, limitations and lessons in a consistent pack.

Partnership tiers

Choose a starting point. Shape the final scope together.

Indicative reach uses the current R1 034 planning cost for a uniform, shoes and socks. It is rounded down and is not a delivery promise. Final proposals use school scope and written supplier quotations.

Founding supporter

Individuals and families
R1 034+
From one indicative complete outfit

Make a once-off gift or register interest in monthly giving when payment facilities open.

  • Programme update
  • Termly delivery summary
  • Consolidated annual report
Register giving interest

Class partner

Small businesses and groups
R25 000
Approximately 24 complete outfits

Fund a defined group at a partner school with a straightforward delivery and learning report.

  • Agreed school scope
  • Itemised budget
  • Termly partner report
Discuss a class partnership

Multi-school partner

Trusts, foundations and grantmakers
R500 000+
From approximately 483 complete outfits

Co-design a phased or multi-year programme with a stronger measurement and learning agenda.

  • Custom logframe and milestones
  • Scheduled grant acquittal
  • Governance and risk reviews
  • Learning and scale recommendations
Scope a grant

Examples: R25 000 ÷ R1 034 = 24 complete outfits; R100 000 ÷ R1 034 = 96; R500 000 ÷ R1 034 = 483. Remainders are not counted as a learner reached. No beneficiary outcomes have yet been reported.

Funding reach estimator

Test an indicative scenario.

Enter a funding amount and package. This is a planning tool—not a quotation, funding commitment or impact result.

96Indicative maximum reach, subject to school scope and supplier quotations.Turn this scenario into an enquiry

Corporate CSI and SED

Alignment without overclaiming.

The programme may align with education access, rural development and socio-economic development (SED) strategies. B-BBEE recognition is not automatic: it depends on the applicable codes, qualifying beneficiaries, evidence and your verification agency.

  • Before commitment: agree intended SED objectives and required evidence.
  • During delivery: retain school, expenditure and beneficiary evidence lawfully.
  • At reporting: provide agreed records for your verification process.

No B-BBEE level, SED recognition or scorecard outcome is currently claimed. Discuss requirements with us and your verification agency before funding.

Tax and grant compliance

A proposal that states what is—and is not—available.

Section 18A approval is not yet in place. Donors should not assume tax deductibility. Where South African or international grantmakers require registered status, audited statements or a track record, we will identify those gaps at concept stage rather than conceal them.

  • Grant concept: need, activities, outputs, timeline and risk.
  • Budget: quoted direct costs and transparent operational allocations.
  • Acquittal: expenditure reconciliation and milestone reporting.
  • Tax: Section 18A receipts only if and when SARS approval applies.
Review the compliance register

Your return on impact

What funding returns—in practical terms.

The intended return for each completed delivery is a verified set of outputs and a disciplined learning report. It is philanthropic and social, not a financial investment return. We do not publish an unsupported rand-for-rand SROI ratio.

If a funder requires monetised SROI, methodology, data collection, assurance and budget must be agreed separately once suitable outcome evidence exists.

Current efficiency formula
Actual package expenditure ÷ confirmed learners receiving the complete package
Reach estimates use planning costs. Reported reach uses signed delivery evidence.
  • Output return: learners, items, schools and delivery timing.
  • Financial return: reconciled expenditure and unit-cost variance.
  • Learning return: feedback, attendance observations and limitations.
  • Organisational return: evidence for future funding and responsible scale.

Grant opportunities

Three ways to structure a grant.

Each opportunity starts with a concept and ends with an agreed acquittal. Budgets below are illustrative starting points, not open calls with guaranteed delivery capacity.

OpportunityPurposeIndicative scaleCore grant products
Founding school pilotTest the full school-to-report delivery cycle with one defined cohort.R100 000–R150 000School scope, quotations, delivery record, financial acquittal and learning report
Multi-school delivery grantRepeat the model across phased school cohorts with milestone-based disbursement.R500 000+Logframe, phased budgets, risk register, termly reports and annual review
Measurement and systems grantStrengthen safeguards, data systems, independent examination and evaluation capability.Custom scopeAgreed systems deliverables, safeguards, baseline tools and independent technical support

Partnership process

Four steps before and after funding.

A clear decision process saves your team time and protects both organisations from vague commitments.

  1. Fit and due diligence

    Share your mandate, budget range, geography, timeline, tax or SED requirements and reporting needs. We share current registration status and available policies.

  2. Costed proposal

    We develop a school-specific scope with supplier quotations, activities, milestones, budget, safeguarding responsibilities and indicators.

  3. Written agreement

    Both parties approve the funding purpose, disbursement conditions, records, recognition, data protection, reporting and remedies for material variance.

  4. Delivery, acquittal and learning

    We implement against the agreement, reconcile actual expenditure, report outputs and limitations, and agree any next phase only after review.

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