Clients
Fund management clients:
1st for Women Foundation
Tshikululu provides social investment strategy development and implementation, as well as monitoring and evaluation services, for the Foundation. The 1st for Women Foundation was established in 2005 to uplift and empower the women of South Africa. With this goal in mind, the Foundation’s strategy focuses on the eradication of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa. […]
AECI
Tshikululu provides on-going monitoring and evaluation services for three separate social investment Trusts: AECI CSI Fund, AECI TISO AEL Development Trust and AECI Community Education and Development Trust. Together, these three trusts focus on a range of issues, including education/skills development, the environment and Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
Ambassadors for Good
Tshikululu manages the South African Ambassadors for Good initiative for Anglo American. This is an employee volunteering programme that operates in several different Anglo American country operations. Tshikululu is responsible for working with Anglo American team members and partner organisations to ensure high-impact employee volunteering projects are supported and completed.
Anglo American Foundation, South Africa
The Anglo-American Foundation is one of the dedicated instruments through which Anglo American channels its corporate social investment (Social Investment) spend, and was named the top Social Investment grant-maker in South Africa for eight consecutive years. The Anglo-American Foundation (AAF) has recently undertaken a strategic review of its work to define its key strategic focus […]
ApexHi & Arrowhead
Tshikululu provides full fund management services – including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance – for the Trust. ApexHi supports the most vulnerable members of society through its Community Strengthening programme, with a particular focus on Gender-based Violence, Orphans and Vulnerable Children, People with Disabilities, the elderly […]
Danaher
Tshikululu provides full fund management services including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance – for the Trust. The Danaher SA Trust focuses on the provision of scholarships for study through its Tertiary Support Bursary Programme, which has a specific focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) […]
Discovery Foundation
Tshikululu provides full fund management services – including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance. Established as one element of Discovery Holdings’ Black Economic Empowerment transaction, the Discovery Foundation is an independent trust that invests in developing South Africa’s scarce specialists healthcare resources. It does this through four […]
Discovery Fund
Tshikululu provides full fund management services – including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance. In line with Discovery’s core purpose of making people healthier and enhancing and protecting their lives, the vision of the Discovery Fund is to improve individuals’ quality of life through the provision of […]
DSV Empowerment Trust
Tshikululu provides full fund management services – including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance. The DSV Empowerment Trust is a Black Economic Empowerment vehicle that owns 25% of DSV South Africa. The Trust provides funding for tertiary study at any registered public institution of higher learning for […]
E Squared Investments
For E Squared, Tshikululu provides grant management services, including identification, due diligence, contracting, payment and monitoring and evaluation. The fundamental purpose driving E Squared (together with sister trusts, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and Allan Gray Orbis Africa Endowment) is to foster “entrepreneurship for the common good” with a focus on the creation of employment opportunities. […]
Enel
Tshikululu provides fund management services, including social investment management and governance services.
Epoch and Optima Trusts
WEBPAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION The Epoch and Optima Trusts are three independent trusts established and funded by Anglo American in 2007 with the purpose of improving learner outcomes in the South African basic education sector. Tshikululu provides full fund management services for the trusts, including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, […]
FSCA
The FSCA has awarded undergraduate bursaries to nine learners who won a provincial speech competition while in grade 11, which focused on financial literacy topics. The bursaries will be provided until the students complete their undergraduate qualifications. Tshikululu provides on-going bursary management services for the programme, including supporting bursars to apply to higher education institutions, assisting […]
GBVF
The Fund is a part of a national response to gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa. It is private sector led approach to coordinating financial resources to support relevant programmes and campaigns that will raise awareness, lead to mass action, and result in behavioural change. Tshikululu is providing end-to-end grant management services for the Fund’s first […]
Roy McAlpine Charitable Foundation
South Deep Community Trust
South Deep Education Trust
Telesure
Tshikululu provides social investment strategy development and implementation, as well as monitoring and evaluation services, for the Foundation. Telesure’s social investment strategy aims to support community development in Diepsloot, Gauteng, with primary focus on youth empowerment and employment.
Tshikululu Trust
Tshikululu provides full fund management services including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance. The Tshikululu Trust is a vehicle through which Tshikululu channels its own social investment funding, as well as other clients as necessary.
Vestas Empowerment Trust
Tshikululu provides full fund management services including social investment strategy development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance – for the Trust. The Vestas Empowerment Trust focuses on improving primary school education outcomes in the Grahamstown area of the Eastern Cape. Specifically, the Trust’s Primary Education Programme works with the majority of […]
WesBank
Tshikululu provides fund management services including social investment strategy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial oversight, compliance and governance – for the Fund. The WesBank Fund, which forms part of the FirstRand Foundation, focuses on agricultural livelihoods through a range of programmatic and systemic initiatives.
Advisory clients:
Tshikululu has worked with a wide range of companies to provide high-impact social investment advisory services.
Absa
Tshikululu project due diligence and partner on-boarding services to Absa Citizenship Team
ACS
AECI
Tshikululu has provided a range of advisory services to AECI, including community assessment and outcomes evaluation projects
African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation (AEMFC)
Research into Employee Share Ownership Scheme, structural design of community trusts aligned to new Mining Charter
Anglo American
Anglo American Platinum appointed Tshikululu as the lead implementation partner to manage its Covid Reset and Rebuild Programme. The short term project with agile programme management approach, whilst balancing AASW processes and M&E principles. 14 high impact projects, ranging from R5 -R88 million over 18 months. Community bursary programme – two weeks to screen 900+ […]
Assore
AVBOB
BMW
Assisted BMW in mapping out its social investment strategy
Debswana
Tshikululu was commissioned by Debswana to assist them in developing a company wide CSI Policy Framework
DFID
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office
Tshikululu was appointed to project manage a FCDO funded Impact investment Programme seeking to undertake a feasibility and design of an Impact Investment Wholesale Vehicle. Tshikululu served as the project manager to support a technical team, to deliver on specific outputs which included reports on the investment landscape in South Africa, the legal review of […]
GBVF
The Fund is a part of a national response to gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa. It is private sector led approach to coordinating financial resources to support relevant programmes and campaigns that will raise awareness, lead to mass action, and result in behavioural change. Tshikululu is providing end-to-end grant management services for the Fund’s first […]
Grindrod
Provided strategic input on early childhood development and teacher development
JET Education
Kouga Wind Farm
Kouga Wind farm contracted Tshikululu to run a trustee selection process
Lekela
Tshikululu designed a M&E Framework for their social investment strategy.