Nationally, there is a limit to the number of jobs that can be created within the current status quo, and this is hardest felt by young people from townships and poor rural communities.
We contribute to job creation locally so that our skills and human capital development investments will go far in enabling young people to be self-sufficient adults.
Our 5 Year Goal
Create access to new job opportunities and optimise our investment injection as an economic stimulant and job creator.
Opportunities to realise this goal:
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Job creation through entrepreneurship and stimulating new labour-absorptive industries
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Strengthen the local food system
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Leverage our investments as job creation initiatives and investment injections into our communities
Our work
Cultivating community engagement and ownership
SCAT-supported SMMEs
Reducing Financial Leakage
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Job creation through entrepreneurship and stimulating new labour-absorptive industries
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Job creation through entrepreneurship and stimulating new labour-absorptive industries
- Implement programs that develop entrepreneurial skills early on to stimulate entrepreneurship and reduce unemployment, especially among the youth.
- Invest in SMMEs and strengthen the support ecosystem so they can thrive.
- Find new labour-absorptive opportunities in our areas and support small business development, helping them connect to markets.
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Strengthen the local food system
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Strengthen the local food system
- Create an effective food system that quickly improves the communities’ access to food and food security by assisting local businesses, NGOs, and government stakeholders to improve the local food system.
- Support local food producers and help them to access local markets.
- Focus on climate change sensitive approaches to agriculture to ensure resilience and sustainability.
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Leverage our investments as job creation initiatives and investment injections into our communities
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Leverage our investments as job creation initiatives and investment injections into our communities
- Reduce financial leakage and optimise the internal circulation of funds flowing from our program grants by reviewing stipend models across our investment portfolio and exploring sustainable fee models.
- Incentivise our programs to increase the proportion of their budget that remains in the communities.
- Explore opportunities to attract external donor funds to co-invest in local initiatives, like co-funding with government or other philanthropic funds.