South Africa

The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) is an international organisation with offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Belfast, Northern Ireland. Established in 2006, it is the only global organisation dedicated specifically to strengthening community philanthropy as a strategy for people-led development. The GFCF provides small grants and technical support to community philanthropy organisations in more than 70 countries, helping them to build social capital, strengthen their institutions, and enhance local decision-making. In addition, it carries out research and action-learning, facilitates peer exchange and knowledge sharing, and advocates for a shift of power and resources closer to communities. By engaging with both grassroots organisations and international donors, the GFCF plays a dual role as a funder and a thought leader, working to make community philanthropy a recognised and influential force in global development.

We are an organization that focuses on the concept of Community Foundations, which are grantmaking public charities dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals within specific local geographical regions. We also facilitates citizen engagement in rural communities, encouraging the strategic use of assets so that locals can spearhead and oversee their own development.

SGS Consulting is a company registered as a closed corporation and functions as a social enterprise based in Johannesburg, South Africa. SGS serves to build the infrastructure for community philanthropy, facilitate organisational development services in the social justice sector, and education improvement and development.

The work and interventions of SGS Consulting happens in deeply divided societies in the region, remnants of significant colonial disruption and institutionalised racial segregation. Transformation in the aforesaid contexts involves the eradication of systemic forms of domination and material disadvantage based on race, gender, class, patriarchy and other forms of inequality.