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Comment on Message from the President by Public Sector Contracts

Public Sector Contracts — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:15:17 +0000

Good Tip

Comment on The View from Here by margaret

margaret — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:53:25 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Margaret

http://grantsforeducation.info

Comment on Rooting Out Poverty by Johanna Hendricks

Johanna Hendricks — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:00:19 +0000

I agree with Ms Markanda and Ms Doughty that it is needed to address the root causes of poverty but you need a holistic approach to address the issues. A person have different areas of need and Foundations are not able to address al those needs. We have identified during our traning session that people lack basic knowledge of certain concepts and have now partner with our Department of Education in implementing a Literacy program. Our capacity building approach are now apllied to all the areas where they run the program. Johanna Hendricks, Cape Town, South Africa

Comment on The Resiliency of Rural America by Johanna Hendricks

Johanna Hendricks — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:42:29 +0000

I have read your emails and are really interested to learn more because we are in the rural West Coast Region of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. We have the Khoisan decendants in our area and development is slow because transport is too expensive. Most of the people in our region have seasonal work and earn less than $125 per month. Assisting rural projects with personal development is almost non existant in our area. the Foundation tries to support these project to the best of its ability. We have a a website http://www.wccf.org.za where you will see our region that we cover. this year we were not able to give grants to our projects. We have now adveritsed for a marketer in our area to assist us to run our Give As You Earn campaign. At the same time we are busy with endowment building and have acumalated at least $10750. I will appreciate it if there is a manner in which i can obtain more material on personal development from the COF website. We have an Annual Non Profit Conference where at 60 leaders are able to come together every year to learn and discuss with government representatives and service providers about the regions issues. the West Coast Community Foundation started in 2001 and is registered as Non Profit Organisation.I like to learn more and rupdate myself with current issues. It will be interesting to see what we in South Africa can learn form Rural America. Everybody is always focussing on the big cities. It is so true that some information that is developed for urban areas does not always apply to rural areas. Johanna Hendricks, CEO of the West Coast Community Foundation, South Africa

Comment on The Debate Continues by Brigette Rouson

Brigette Rouson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:01:03 +0000

Well said! What a relief to find some sanity in the public debate over benchmarking philanthropic practice.

Comment on You’re Never Too Young to Lead: Mary Galeti on Next Gen Leadership by Jane Dickler Lebow

Jane Dickler Lebow — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:43:23 +0000

The four cousins who form the younger part of our foundation (their ages range from 22 to 40) have recently been vested with responsibility for deciding whether to keep the foundation structure as it is, restructure it or spend down the principal. They are grappling with some of the same issues that the Tecovas Foundation board members are facing. They also are considering several approaches. I would very much like to know how the Tecovas Foundation board members came to whatever conclusions they ended up with and what those conclusions were/are.

I am not one of the cousins (I’m the mother of one of them and the aunt of the other three), but I’d really like to share with them whatever information Ms. Galeti feels comfortable sharing, but I don’t know how to reach her, apart from writing to the Tecovas Foundation. If there is some other way, I’d like to know about it.

Thank you.

Comment on You’re Never Too Young to Lead: Mary Galeti on Next Gen Leadership by Pamela Hawley

Pamela Hawley — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:02:19 +0000

Dear Mary, thank you so much for a heartfelt yet also very practical, focused look at your foundation. You’ve been put in a leadership position with quite a legacy. I appreciate your thoughtfulness, curiosity and duty you have taken on in serving our communities. It’s a great model for us all, that despite the challenges, we must continue to lead.

All the best!

Pamela
Founder and CEO
UniversalGiving
http://www.universalgiving.org