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Driving Real Social Change
in South Africa
Social Impact is Our Focus
At Tshikululu Social Investments, we help you achieve your company’s social change goals by providing customised strategic social impact services. We manage funds and advise on corporate social investment, creating and implementing impactful social development projects for your workforce, community, province, and even nationally.
Our sustainability and environmental, social and governance advisory services help organisations navigate complex regulatory requirements and develop robust frameworks that align with global standards. We ensure your sustainability initiatives deliver genuine value for both your business and society.
What We Do
We tailor all aspects of social investment strategies and implementation to your specific needs, drawing on our deep understanding of the seven key development sectors. Across all these sectors, we prioritise capacity building, infrastructure projects, technology, people with disabilities, gender, youth, transformation, and research and advocacy.
Education
Everyone has access to quality education
Community Strengthening and Care
The quality of life of the most vulnerable is improved and their dignity protected
Creative Arts
A society where the creative arts are valued and diverse talents flourish
Energy
Everyone receives consistent energy that is clean, sustainable and affordable
Health
Everyone is able to lead a healthy life
Livelihoods
Everyone can participate meaningfully in the economy and provide for their loved ones
Environment
A sustainable life for everyone, both now and in the future
Infrastructure
A society where infrastructure development is approached with social intent, to benefit everyone
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Our Capabilities
Creating strategies, implementing and measuring Social Impact and Environment, Social and Governance projects can pose multiple challenges. With our 26 years of experience in the Corporate Social Investment (CSI) space, we can simplify these challenges, set measurable, achievable goals and steer your projects in the right direction.
Our capabilities come into play right from start of your project, and flexibility is built in – each project is unique, and we ensure that your priorities are key.
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How We Achieve Impact
We’ve designed a system that highlights the essential elements for each project, across all stakeholders. These “Enablers of Change” help us understand the difference our projects are making, so that we can implement genuine evaluation, leading to sustainable impact and value.
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Our Clients
Our social investors operate in such diverse sectors as mining, finance, renewable energy, property, healthcare, and logistics. We work with them on both urban and rural projects in all nine provinces and across our focus areas.
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Essential Partnerships
We collaborate with civil society, government departments, suppliers, regulatory bodies, and more, to enable our clients’ social investment goals.
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Who We Are
For over two decades, we have tackled social change with innovative thinking and a pioneering mindset. While our solutions are well-established, we still constantly evolve, refine and update your options. We connect seemingly unrelated issues and initiatives to create bespoke programmes tailored to your company’s specific social impact goals.
What Our Experts Think
Our collection of insights, reports, white papers and items from the media represent some of the industry’s leading commentary and latest research on social investment.
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