Discretionary Grants

To strengthen Masifundise’s HR Administration & Systems, and to improve its internal systems by developing a structured and supportive supervision framework that enhances staff performance, accountability, and well-being

To combat polarisation on land-related questions within South Africa.

To improve the quality of participatory governance in Cape Town through a collective reimagining and democratic reform of the ward committee system.

To advance social justice and systemic change by equipping South African youth with accessible, actionable information about structural challenges, enabling them to hold those in power accountable for the fair and just exercise of that power.

To promote accountable and transparent local government by enhancing informed citizen action and campaigns to fix local service delivery issues with collaboration between citizens, elected counsellors and public servants or by holding them to account when service delivery is failing.

To build the capacity of traditional leaders and councils to participate in environmental governance and climate change decision-making. Strengthen community-led environmental awareness, protection of wetlands and rivers, and collaboration with municipalities and conservation bodies.