Consultancy Advice
- We assess your fundraising strategy and performance; provide recommendations for optimisation of your strategy and advice on how to strengthen your skills set.
- Advice on improved research, identifying potential funders, and how to reach decision makers quickly.
- Advice on preparing concept documents and proposals that align with funders’ priorities.
- Advice on and assistance with setting up a US 501(c) company to facilitate funding from American Foundations.
- Monitoring and evaluating social impact for funders.
Outsourced Fundraising Services
- Advice and assistance with implementing fundraising strategies.
- Research and identify local and international trusts and foundations that align with your goals.
- Identify suitable high-net-worth individuals.
- Prepare customised letters of enquiry and send concept notes to prospective donors.
- Set up and attend meetings with potential funders.
- Invite prospects to visit projects.
- Follow up on letters of enquiry, concepts and proposals and attend to queries from funders. Proposals and budgets to be provided by the client.
- Submit governance information provided by the client.
- Co-ordinate monthly meetings with clients to report on progress.
Services to Foundations and Corporates
- We develop an in-depth understanding of your company and collaborate closely with your team to identify projects best aligned to your corporate values, goals and funding criteria.
- Prepare all investment (donation) and other agreements including your definition of the terms and conditions of funding.
- We understand the importance of marketing and brand value that helps maximise your social investment from a public relations perspective.
- We work with your organisation on awarding BEE points for use on scorecards, where appropriate.
- Research beneficiaries and secure their undertaking to adhere to best practise guidelines, prior to being accepted as a client.
- Monitor and evaluate projects and provide regular service reports.
- Arrange visits to projects to see the social impact of your social investment.
- Measure the social return on investment and prepare reports for your board and shareholders.
- Advice on fundraising structures and setting up appropriate foundations inside and outside South Africa.
- Research and identify local and international trusts and foundations.
- Assist your company/foundation to maximise funding opportunities and leverage additional funding to augment your giving capacity, where and if required.
Our Consulting Work
Service of consulting advice.
We optimised The African Academy of Computer Assisted Design and Draughting’s mission, linking with the Japanese Government’s stated commitment of bridging the digital divide between countries, when with President Mori of Japan's visit, a donation of computers and software for an additional 100 students were announced.
Research and identify
Outsourced fundraising advice.
By identifying with Absa Bank’s strategic climate goals, PC linked this challenge with the setting up a Daily Maverick’s Climate News Bureau, “Our Burning Planet” which Absa funds on an ongoing basis from their CSI and Marketing budgets. In less than 3 years “Our Burning Planet” has become the largest climate reporting and investigative unit on the continent.
Working Large Scale
Services to foundations and corporates.
By introducing Witkoppen Clinic as a registered level 1 BBEE opportunity to Aspen, Aspen was able to claim BBEE points and receive 18A tax exemption on the converted mobile health unit donated to Witkoppen Clinic. The mobile was branded by Apen and enjoys visibility and brand recognition in a community which has close on 1 million inhabitants.
