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Strengthening Giving in South Africa
 In 2005 Inyathelo partnered with The Kresge Foundation with the launch of a $10 million Special Initiative in South Africa to strengthen local private giving and fundraising capacity in non-profit institutions in South Africa
Under the Kresge Special Initiative in South Africa, Kresge will work for five years with Inyathelo, to provide support to universities, and hospitals to develop and strengthen local fundraising and giving. Besides funding to cover operational costs related to institutional development and fundraising such as staff salaries, equipment, travel and campaign overheads, this five-year programme will provide institutions with fundraising training and support, mentoring, peer exchanges abroad and special challenge and incentive grants when they have met the benchmarks that they set for themselves.
Nineteen South African institutions submitted concept papers for the Initiative in May 2005, and seven were asked to provide final proposals. Working with Inyathelo, The Kresge Foundation approved four final grantees from this group in December 2005 and another grantee was admitted to the programme in October 2007.
Grantee Institutions
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) awarded R9, 650,000 (approximately $1,483,474). UWC was established in the 1960s and was an apartheid-defined “coloured” ethnic institution. During the 1980s UWC became the Western Cape focal point institution of resistance to apartheid and became known as the “Struggle University.” The strategy helped UWC grow at an unprecedented rate, and today many of South Africa’s leading black government, judicial and business leaders are UWC alumni.
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Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) awarded R13, 223,770 (approximately $2,032,862). CPUT, the result of a merger of the former Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon in January 2005, operates on five main campuses and several service points and has approximately 27, 000 registered students with nine faculties. CPUT is the largest institution in the region focusing on technology education, serving the Western Cape, Eastern and Northern Cape provinces and Namibia.
University of Pretoria (UP) awarded R13, 476,617 (approximately $2,072,040). Founded in 1930 as the Transvaal University, UP is now one of South Africa’s largest residential universities with 48, 000 students including 11, 000 distance students. UP has nine faculties and retains its status as one of South Africa’s flagship institutions with its output of accredited research being one of the highest in the country.
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) joined the programme at the end of 2007. Wits does not receive an operational grant from The Kresge Foundation but is part of the training programme and the challenge grant component. Spread over more than 400 hectares, Wits University is an urban, comprehensive university which has a distinctive capacity to contribute to the reconstruction and development of South Africa through research and the production of skilled, critical and adaptable graduates. With its more than 100000 graduates in its 86-year history, Wits has made and will continue to make its mark nationally and internationally.
The Children’s Hospital Trust awarded R8, 263,294 (approximately $1,270,299). The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital was built in 1956 and is the only specialist hospital in Africa’s sub-Saharan region dedicated entirely to children. It treats approx 250 000 children annually mostly from disadvantaged communities. The Hospital Trust (functioning as an autonomous body) was formed in 1994 and has developed an outstanding fundraising reputation in South Africa.
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