Serious Social Investing workshop 2011
Filmed interviews
During the Serious Social Investing workshop 2011 which took place on 17 and 18 March 2011, we asked our speakers to sum up the most important message they wished to convey during their presentations. These videos can also be viewed directly on YouTube on Tshikululu’s channel:
| Tracey Henry (CEO, Tshikululu Social Investments) discusses the ethical choices we face in grantmaking, and social investment relationships. | Denis Beckett (Commentator-at-large) believes that to the outsider’s eye, grantgiving sometimes seems a rote thing, the filling in of correct forms and handing over of respectable sums, |
| Running SA’s premier enterprise development programme for more than 20 years has seen Anglo American Zimele create over 800 businesses, and Nick van Rensburg (Head: Anglo Zimele) has learnt lots of lessons. He shares his approach. | One half of our panel on innovation in CSI, Barry Swartzberg (Group executive director: Discovery Health) discusses a new CSI model that seeks to bring about greater employee participation in the CSI process. |
| One half of our panel on innovation in CSI, Prof Steven Friedman (Director: Centre for the Study of Democracy) takes a close look at the professionalism of CSI practitioners. | Lynne Fišer (Trust consultant: BoE Philanthropy) says welfare support should form a moral, and possibly obligatory, part of giving. |
| Grantmakers almost inevitably find themselves having to exit funding relationships with NGO partners, says Claire Hugo (Client relationship manager: Tshikululu). | Dr Mothomang Diaho tells us more about specific methodologies should be used for the success of structured and strategic community engagements. |
| Adam Boros (CSI practitioner: Tshikululu) defines capacity building in easily understandable terms. | Linda Vilakazi (CEO: Bridge)looks at the emergence of educational innovations and how they add value to teaching and learning as well as their effect on the world beyond schooling. |
| Ari Seirlis (National director: QuadPara Association of South Africa) provides an overview of “disability politics” and sensitisation to the myths, manners, and “do’s and don’ts” in this area. | Janina Martin (Director: K3 Strategies) discusses job creation attempts, using the platform of Setas as examples. |
| Andre Proctor (Programme director: Keystone) shares some examples of successful Collective Impact initiatives and discussed the five conditions of collective success that have emerged from this experience. |
