The Other Foundation, an Atlantic Philanthropies grantee working to advance the rights and well-being of LGBTI people in Southern Africa, wanted its first grant making initiative to be special. They devised a unique process dubbed "participatory grant making" that is a model for transparency and simplicity. 

We are excited to announce that we will be moving to new premises in Woodstock, Cape Town on the 8th of December 2014!

Charles "Chuck" Feeney is likely the most famous and influential billionaire you've never heard of. His foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, has given billions of Rands to our emerging South African democracy.  Inyathelo was privileged to award him the 2014 Inyathelo "Lifetime Philanthropy Award for Giving While Living. Executive Director of Inyathelo, Shelagh Gastrow, gave a special tribute to Mr. Feeney at the awards ceremony, which we include below.

Eleven other extraordinary individuals were honoured as well. We hope find their stories as compelling and uplifting as we did (watch on YouTube).

The 2014 Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards took place at the Zip Zap Circus Dome in Cape Town on 6 November.

By Khairoonisa Foflonker, Programme Co-ordinator at Inyathelo

Recently the CEO of a well-respected local non-profit organisation lamented that the philanthropic sector had not changed in 400 years. This simply isn’t true. However, it is entirely likely that our assumptions about non-profits are based on stereotypes that are indeed centuries old. 

Nazli Abrahams, Programme Director at Inyathelo, the South Africa Institute for Advancement, wrote this letter to the editor of the Cape Times in response to the Lorenzo Davids op-ed piece. 

Today's trend in philanthropy is to think less about the size of the gift and more about the impact. Since 2007 the Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards has been putting a spotlight on South Africans who have worked to better their communities with their targeted, thoughtful philanthropic efforts.

Inyathelo mourns the passing of Gerald Kraak, Head of the South African office of The Atlantic Philanthropies.

PHILANTHROPY AND LITIGATION

The key difference between private philanthropic funding and money coming from the government or the corporate sector is the issue of accountability. Mark Shuttleworth is putting money into defending constitutional rights in Africa.