Leadership and agency
Explore support for mentoring, life skills, wellbeing, leadership and pathways into economic participation.
Women’s empowermentGirls Power InitiativeGrants & funding partnerships
Invest in women.
Strengthen communities.
Partner with a South African foundation that puts women’s empowerment at the centre of connected community development. Bring your funding priorities into a conversation about leadership, opportunity and lasting participation.
Registration & donor assurance
SARS PBO & Section 18A approval granted
Nkwenkwezi Foundation has been granted SARS Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) and Section 18A approval. This supports our commitment to responsible fundraising and transparent donor relationships. Official reference details and approval letters will be published when the final documentation is received.
Section 18A receipt issuance is subject to the official SARS reference number, effective date and qualifying donation requirements. Please contact us about receipt eligibility before relying on a tax deduction.
- NPO registration
- 304-987
- PBO reference
- Publication pending
- Section 18A reference
- Publication pending
- Section 18A effective date
- To be published with the approval letter
PBO approval letter: publication pendingSection 18A approval letter: publication pending
Areas for collaboration
Fund a priority.
Build connected pathways.
These are areas for funding conversations. Programme location, scale, delivery capacity and budget are agreed for each proposed partnership.
Skills and opportunity
Discuss work readiness, career exposure, enterprise support and connections to learning, work and markets.
Youth developmentSustainable livelihoodsStronger community foundations
Explore child-centred awareness, caregiver engagement and community-led cultural learning and heritage.
Child protectionCulture & heritageFrom interest to proposal
Make the scope clear
before funding begins.
We welcome enquiries from grantmaking foundations, corporate social investment teams, individual philanthropists and diaspora networks.
Discuss a concept noteShare your funding criteria
Tell us your focus area, geographic interests, eligibility requirements, indicative funding range and decision deadline.
Explore community fit
Discuss the need, participant group, proposed activities, delivery relationships and what is feasible with available capacity.
Develop a costed scope
Agree the programme design, timeline, itemised budget, delivery costs, responsibilities and any restrictions on the use of funds.
Agree the funding arrangement
Document milestones, payment arrangements, safeguarding requirements, reporting and donor recognition before implementation.
Evidence & learning
Agree what progress
will look like.
The measures below are examples for proposal development, not published results or existing reporting commitments.
Delivery
Activities completed, participation and attendance, milestones reached and resources delivered against the agreed plan.
Outcomes
Suitable measures of learning, confidence, skills or access to opportunity, with a baseline and follow-up approach where feasible.
Financial stewardship
An agreed budget-to-actual reporting format, explanations for material variances and supporting records appropriate to the grant.
Community voice & safeguarding
Appropriate participant feedback, informed consent for stories and images, privacy safeguards and agreed concern-reporting arrangements.
Targets, reporting frequency and independent assurance requirements are set in the funding agreement. We do not present proposed outcomes as verified achievements.
Read our approach to impactFunders’ information
A clear route
to your review.
Let us know the documents your organisation needs and your review timeline. We will discuss availability and any additional requirements before you commit.
Request a due-diligence discussionInformation to discuss
- Registration, PBO and Section 18A documentation
- Current governance and authorised representatives
- Bank confirmation and financial records
- Programme proposal, budget and delivery capacity
- Adopted safeguarding and financial procedures
- Reporting, data protection and communications
This is a review checklist, not a claim that a complete document pack is already available. The policy library remains clearly labelled as draft.
Check document availabilityLet’s explore a shared priority.
Start with your interests and requirements. Together, we can assess the right next step.
The case for support
Understand the need.
Shape the response.
Explore the South African and global evidence on women’s safety, economic opportunity and care responsibilities.
See how these challenges inform our programme priorities and the funding conversations we invite.
Why invest in women?Agriculture & sustainable development
Grow enterprises.
Create opportunity.
Help women build agricultural skills, use appropriate technology and develop viable enterprises with routes to markets and paid work.
We welcome partners to shape feasible projects in sustainable production, processing and agricultural services, with budgets and outcomes agreed before delivery.
Explore agribusiness partnerships