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A warm welcome to our first newsletter as Heart. We’ve had an incredibly dynamic first semester and wanted to share some of our news with you. We’ve got some exciting information on our recently launched social investment funds as well as many inspiring stories with real impact from our social enterprise projects.
It is only through the actions of people like yourself that we are able to do the life changing work we do. Thank you.
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SIMAS is born – measuring social impact
eSIMAS stands for Elementary Social Impact Assessment Scorecard. In a nutshell, this tool facilitates the measurement of social impact by quantifying the social contributions made by any entity in the social enterprise space.
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A new way of investing – a first for South
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
~Albert Einstein
This new way of thinking was the starting point for the development of the suite of social enterprise funds that Heart recently launched, to change the way businesses or individuals approach charitable donations and to transform them into investments that can produce financial returns
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Blended value research
We believe that the foundation of all good ideas is a base of comprehensive research. Before launching our blended value funds, we conducted a perception audit among agents of corporate social transformation to ascertain their thoughts on the proposed funding structure and related CSI topics.
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Change of Heart launch
On 22 May the Heart of Healing re-launched as Heart to reflect its evolution as a business. Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was the honorary guest speaker, saying that she wants government to take social enterprise more seriously in future, as a way to harness goodwill and achieve a sustainable difference.
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Love to Africa Research Programme
Love to Africa is a developmental project that develops and markets social tourism packages (voluntourism) to tour operators in Cape Town. We conducted a perception audit among tour operators, language schools, backpackers and hotels to evaluate
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Food Tents – the gift of life
Food Tents are proving to be extremely popular as a solution to the lack of food security in South Africa. In the first semester our team erected 18 food tents at various schools, hospitals and NGO’s around the country with a direct social impact of 1440 people and indirect impact of 5760 people.
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Wines with Heart – a new name
Charity Wines has been re-branded Wines with Heart. In the first semester we raised R50 000 through an auction and as a result donated R66 000 to various NGO’s in the winelands.
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Urban Guerilla – jam-packed pillow fight
Our latest guerrilla activity was a jam packed pillow fight in the Cape Town Waterfront to raise funds for the Heart sponsor store. Over 50 people brought pillow cases packed with quality clothes they no longer wear and then joined in the fun.
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Adrenalize – extraordinary change through extreme activities
Earlier this year we gave a team of eight young project managers the opportunity to run this project as the practical part of their studies at Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
These events have influenced 45 young adults directly, giving them new perspectives and direction, while benefiting the communities they have helped.
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Heart Sponsor Store
The Heart store has been a resounding success to date, with sales taking off big-time, increasing 300% month on month (yes, off a very low base) - proving that the store is sustainable.
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Engage with Heart
We always want to hear from you so please don’t hesitate to contact us. We have many ways individuals and companies can get involved with us. These ways range from: investing in our social investment funds; donating time, money or goods; buying any of our products or services to a variety of volunteering opportunities with us.
The concept of Ubuntu describes our philosophy perfectly “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” - a person is a person through other persons, or I am because we are. It is about accepting our interconnectedness as humanity. If it were not for the needs of society and the generosity of society, we would not be able to do the work we do.
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Thank Yous
We have so many companies and individuals to be grateful for and we wish we could acknowledge everyone individually but the list could fill a book! However, we would like to make a few honourable mentions here.
A huge thank you must go to the following:
* Super Rent for supplying us with trucks and bakkies to deliver our Food Tents.
* Donations of clothing for the Heart store from Rocketfuel, Bombshell Clothing, Phoebe and Floyd designs, Kaleidoscope, Horus international and special discounted items from Cqinz Boutique, In House Fashion, Space Station and Cynray.
* Killarney Race Track, Ferrari Owners Club, Venture Forth, The Shark Lady and Sales Hire Claremont for helping make our Adrenalise adventures a reality.
We hope you enjoyed reading our newsletter and it gave you some valuable food for thought. We value your feedback so if there is anything in our newsletter you would like to comment on or any suggestions you may have, please click here
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