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RURAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS/PROGRAMMES: The Cape Winelands District Municipality (CWDM) recently advertised the following opportunity:
“CWDM invites NGOs, social partners and service providers to submit proposals for a variety of rural and social development projects and programmes, as listed below.Fund Objective: The projects have been established by the CWDM to provide limited grant funding to organisations [...]
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Officials in India have come up with a novel way of communicating an HIV awareness message to an ever growing population. A cellphone ringtone that chants “condom! condom” will be used as a way of trying to inspire Indians to take heart and heed of a safer sex message. This use of techonology will hopefully [...]
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Tags: digital communications, HIV/AIDS, population growth
We are less than a month away from former President Nelson Mandela’s birthday on 18 July. But enroute to that day, in which South Africans and the world will get to celebrate the life of a truly great man, stands the date of 27 June. On that day voting is scheduled to begin in the [...]
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Tags: Biti, election, Tsvangirai, tyranny, Zimbabwe
South Africa beyond 2010
I recently had the opportunity to attend a breakfast seminar hosted by the Ubuntu Foundation. The Guest Speaker was Guy Lundy, a futurist, strategic thinker and economic analyst. You may have read Mr. Lundy’s book South Africa: Reasons to Believe. Or you may be familiar with an email that spread like wildfire all over the [...]
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The Africa Centre for Cities (UCT) in partnership with the African Centre recently hosted a debate series, the Cape Futures Public Debate Series at the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
The first debate addressed a common challenge in developing countries, namely slum eradication. The aptly titled first debate, ‘Is Slum Eradication the Right Policy Objective’ [...]
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dialogue with donors?
Many of the enquiries we receive at DEVELOPMENT WORKS are for assistance with fundraising. We are constantly reminded that the search for funding is an ongoing and pressing challenge for NGOs and CBOs operating in South Africa. No doubt this same challenge also affects nonprofits in other countries.
The recent International Fundraising Congress [...]
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