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Charities Aid Foundation Southern Africa (CAF SA)
Contact: Ms Manon Ellis Williams
Tel: 011 726 1148
Fax: 011 726 3877
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Website: www.cafsouthernafrica.org
Address: Postnet Suite 37, Private Bag X9, Melville, Johannesburg, 2109.

CAF SA is a registered NPO, which strives to increase the flow of funds to the non-profit sector in Southern Africa by bringing businesses and NPOs together in productive partnerships. It is part of an international Charities Aid Foundation network.

 CAF SA achieves its mission through:

• Advising local and international companies on how to get staff involved in new community programmes as well as existing CSI initiatives.
• Helping NPOs access resources and information.
• Designing, administering, assessing and marketing appropriate employee volunteer programmes.
• Maintaining a database of bona fide NPOs requiring both short-term and long- term assistance.
• Lobbying for improved tax incentives for individual and corporate giving.

Many individuals within different companies are already giving money and time to the causes they believe in. CAF SA helps companies take a more structured approach to ‘employee giving’ and CSI by developing programmes that bring these together. Involving and supporting staff in community projects brings widespread benefits not only to the community but to the company and its employees as well.

CAF SA promotes an annual Employee Volunteer Week (the first was held in South Africa from 5 - 11 March 2005). Companies are encouraged to plan specific community initiatives during Volunteer Week and involve their employees. This could be a lunch hour spent delivering food parcels or a whole day spent helping to renovate an orphanage. It is hoped that these initial projects will grow into long-term, fruitful relationships between companies, employees and NPOs.

Companies wishing to participate in a volunteer programme or to get involved in Volunteer Week, and NPOs wanting to use volunteers effectively should contact Manon Ellis Williams on 011 726 1148 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it An Employee Volunteer Week Toolkit can be downloaded from the CAF SA website at www.cafsouthernafrica.org. This contains detailed advice on how to get started and project ideas.

The Volunteer Centre
Contact person: Deline van Boon
Tel: 021 418 1116
Fax: 021 418 1116
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Website: www.volcent.co.za
Address: Volunteer Centre, Helen Bowden Building, Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point, 8051.

The Volunteer Centre in Cape Town runs a corporate programme called Employee Supported Volunteering (ESV). This is based on models that have worked successfully overseas and ones currently running in corporations throughout South Africa. The Centre helps to create an inspirational programme for each company so that the employer, the employees and the community all derive benefit. Each programme is therefore tailored to the company needs and the scope of employee involvement, and will include the following:

• Link-up with appropriate NPOs
• Motivation and training of staff volunteers
• Assistance with volunteer placements
• Evaluation and monitoring of the programme, with regular progress reports
• Promotion of each ESV programme to a wider audience
• Special awards for the most successful programmes