Corporate services
Social investment is about more than just money. We tailor our services to meet the individual needs of our clients, offering them a range of ways to invest in South Africa’s future.
SASIX helps corporate investors create a portfolio of social shares in projects which meet their corporate social investment (CSI) aims and reflect their core business objectives.
Strategic:
- Consulting on the development, implementation and management of CSI programmes.
- Designing and implementing CSI policies and strategies.
- Developing corporate sponsorship policy documents.
- Researching the CSI environment within specific corporate market sectors to facilitate unique CSI positioning.
Research and evaluation:
- Identifying non-profit organisations and their projects to meet specific CSI programme needs.
- Assessing and verifying non-profit organisations and their projects in terms of organisational capacity, needs analysis and risk profile.
- Evaluating existing CSI initiatives to gain an understanding of the company’s social investment impact on the community.
- Helping to establish effective CSI project monitoring and evaluation processes.
Financial and administrative support:
- Supporting and/or managing the allocation and distribution of grant funding to identified beneficiaries.
- Providing financial management services for CSI funds held in trust by GreaterGood SA and, where appropriate, issuing Section 18A tax exemption receipts.
- Processing grant applications and sending relevant responses to applicants.
- Assisting with the design and production of annual CSI reports and booklets.
Employee volunteering and giving:
- Identifying effective and unique volunteer opportunities for employee engagement initiatives.
- Developing, implementing and managing tailor-made employee volunteer programmes, including monitoring staff preferences and report-backs.
- Implementing and managing staff giving programmes, including tracking and reporting on donations made.
Surplus product redistribution:
- Managing the redistribution of surplus product to verified organisations within the scope of the company’s CSI priorities.
- Ensuring appropriate identification of beneficiaries, transportation, report-backs and publicity, where possible.
Cause-related Marketing:
- Working with the business to identify and initiate Cause Related Marketing opportunities with identified non-profit partners.
- Identifying quality products manufactured by non-profit organisations as company gifts which can also be branded with company logos.
