Fundraising

The global financial crisis makes it essential that we focus on the need for donors to meet their targets; ensure that available resources are optimised, that the priorities for expenditure are right; and that we look at ways of saving money and at neglected sources of financing. As is the practice in many African cultures, if your fire burns out, you fetch some from the neighbours

I want to express my frustration at the fact that the people at Lotto are allowed to be so chaotic and unprofessional. We are willing to undergo rigorous selection, and to deal with being rejected with good reason. What I am not willing to do, is to sit by and tolerate the incompetent antics of a group of people who are short changing the NPO sector

In the second of a series of articles, Nicole Copley asks whether there are any advantages to dual structures - one which is tax exempt, and the other that does the income-generating work.

In many countries throughout the world, the definition of a non-profit organisation has long been that profits are not distributed - not that profits are not made. It has taken South African tax laws a while to catch onto this distinction. Tax-exempt Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs) are now permitted to trade without limitations. If their trading income does not fit under one of the headings which exempt it they are required to ‘ring-fence’ their trading income, and to pay tax on it, but are granted a generous ‘rebate’ on trading income. It is this ‘rebate’ which makes tax exemption attractive to trading NGOs