General Interest
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No silver bullet for CSI success, but a plan helps
2 April 2012
This year, the Serious Social Investing workshop was held on 14 and 15 March 2012 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, Johannesburg.
No singular national CSI plan or body can replace the need for well-defined strategies and the nuance of multi-faceted development, says Tshikululu Social Investments CEO Tracey Henry in this excerpt from her keynote address to the 2012 Serious Social Investing workshop.
Social investment long ago moved away from the ‘heart of giving’ to the science of strategic social investment. How we go about this on a daily basis may seem challenging at times, especially in a country with such vast needs and opportunities.
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Women in leadership
1 March 2012
‘None will succeed without us. Nothing about us without us.’ – Graça Machel
Cassandra Twala, Tshikululu Executive Assistant,considers the role of the ‘fairer gender’ in business, and in leadership.
‘17 years after the birth of democracy, South Africa still continues its struggle to achieve gender transformation and equality in the workplace. At a time when we celebrate the first woman to be appointed chief executive of the JSE in Nikki Newton-King … women hold only 4.4% of chief executive or managing director positions, 5.3% of chairperson positions, and 15.8% of all directorships’ – Mail & Guardian Book of South African Women
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CSI Insight – the top 11 of 2011
2 February 2012
There are over 80 articles in our Insight archive, covering a wide range of corporate social investment-related topics from sustainability and governance to social development and education to issues affecting NGO specifically and those related to grantmaking.Here is a list of the 11 articles our visitors read most in 2011:
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In response to The Daily Maverick
11 January 2012
On 11 January, online news publication The Daily Maverick featured a report on South Africa’s ranking in the World Giving Index conducted by the Charities Aid Foundation entitled “Charities Aid Foundation: South Africans need to give more“, which included an interview with CAF Southern Africa’s CEO Colleen du Toit. Tshikululu’s Senior Communications Specialist, Gina de Villiers, responds.
