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. At the Heart launch, Urban Guerilla kept guests guessing with a beautiful chalked history of our organisation, leading people up the stairs to the event.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Stories With Heart

A brand new way to will be launched in Cape Town next to entice the nightlife industry into helpin gout with the nation's escalating social problems.

Partying for a cause is not a bad idea, given that in the cold light of the morning after, as the hangover bites, many club-heads wonder why they went wild in the night before as they survey their bank balances.

At least when it's in aid of a Good Thing you van feel a bit better abou the hangover and the financial knock.

Heart's Initiative to uplift children from the community by taking them on extreme sports events.

Peter Shrimpton, CEO of Heart, is interviewed at the World Economic Forum on Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 18-19 June 2009. In this video he introduces one of his favourite social enterprises, Food Tents.

"If you think making donations to charities will solve our problems, you are making a grave and destructive mistake." - Peter Shrimpton

‘Party with Heart’ is a new initiative being launched in Cape Town next month to entice the nightlife industry to give something back to the escalating social problems our city and country face.

Peter Shrimpton, CEO of Heart, is interviewed at the World Economic Forum on Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 18-19 June 2009.

Te midde van ekonomiese druk het die Sarah Fox-hersteloord vir kinder in Athlone gister sy eerste kweekhuis vir die verbouing van groente gekry.

Social and environmental challenges are escalating worldwide, with an increasing need to find sustainable business solutions to these problems. Watch this video to find out more.

‘Party with Heart’ is a new initiative being launched in Cape Town next month to entice the nightlife industry to give something back to the escalating social problems our city and country face.

Summit TV speaks to award winning social entrepreneur Peter Shrimpton from Heart Social Investment about how to invest and make money while working for the greater good.

Tents have much more to do than just offer shelter in poor communities, where a joint effort is teaching people the "joy of growing". These tents are "FoodTents", and with the help of sponsor Pam Golding Properties, eight will be erected at local community-based, non-profit organisations to help teach people to help themselves...