A holistic coaching and development programme for impact entrepreneurs.
FURTHER provides a holistic coaching and development programme for the grantees of SAB Foundation’s Social Innovation & Disability Empowerment awards.
The formal programme is 12 months of tailored personal and business development, with a strong focus on the personal capacity-building and wellbeing of the entrepreneurs, overlaid with technical and financial support from leading experts.
Over the last 5 years, we have incubated over 150 entrepreneurs through the programme.
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A tailored development pathway for green economy entrepreneurs.
FURTHER designed and runs THE GREENHOUSE, a tailored pathway of catalytic grant funding, holistic capacity-building and skills development for early-stage, high-potential green economy entrepreneurs.
The goal is to grow a pipeline of sustainable businesses that will create more sustainable jobs and more sustainable impact in the areas of agriculture, energy, water and waste.
In addition to receiving seed funding, over a 12 month period the selected entrepreneurs are coached by leading high performance and green economy experts, as well as having access to the technical and financial expertise of Nedbank Corporate & Investment Bank.
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An entrepreneurial mindset training and capacity-building for young artisans.
FURTHER runs entrepreneurial mindset training and capacity-building for young artisans (plumbers & electricians) to help them develop the confidence and ability to start their own businesses.
We also run train-the-trainer programmes for TVET (Technical & Vocational Colleges) lecturers to enable them to train their students in developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
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An immersive leadership programme for young leaders from all walks of life.
Together with the Foundation, we co-created and ran the Leading for Humanity programme, an immersive leadership programme for young leaders from all walks of life to reimagine society and develop the courage to tackle its challenges for the betterment of society. The Leading for Humanity programme is in its third year and has developed 60 young leaders from civil society, entrepreneurship, NGOs and business.
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of FURTHER entrepreneurs improved their entrepreneurial mindset, business, finance, marketing and sales skills
Impact Entrepreneurs
These are the proactive trailblazers working to uplift their communities. Our goal is to help them bridge the challenging gap between start-up and scale through holistic,tailored development programmes.
Our programme focuses on personal wellbeing, as well as equipping them with the technical skills to grow a successful business. They have a team of multi-disciplinary, multicultural experts and coaches to lean on and we facilitate networking through peer-to-peer engagement. Empowered by our programmes, many of our Impact Entrepreneurs have created revolutionary change in their communities.
Our partners in this work include the SAB Foundation, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and BritishCouncil.
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youth trained in technical, creative and life skills through the FURTHER community
Youth Development
South Africa has a staggering youth unemployment crisis. This generation cannot afford to pin their hopes on securing a job – they need to be equipped to take charge of their own futures and write their own stories.
We run capacity-building programmes for a wide spectrum of young people, helping them to grow their self-efficacy and develop a sense of agency. Our goal is to help them believe that they can create the life they want to live and then start equipping them with the necessary skills to make it happen.
Impact Partners
We have fantastic like-minded partners working with us on this mission:
Business and Arts South Africa Through this partnership, we work with creatives from across the country.
Allan Gray Makers Together, we work on the Artisans of Mzansi programme, which aims to make the artisanal trades industry a sought-after career path again and inspire an entrepreneurial mindset amongst TVET students.
The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation With them, we are co-creating A Million Ripples – Leading for Humanity, a programme that aims to nurture a generation of future leaders across all walks of life with the courage and character to reimagine society. These will be the leaders of tomorrow, who will tackle societal challenges around them for the betterment of humanity.
We are always open to widening our network of partners and working with organisations looking to make a difference in South Africa.
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children enabled with educational support through the FURTHER community
Early Childhood Development
How wonderful would it be if children could grow up equipped with the essential human skills and abilities needed to thrive in the world? The most powerful way to develop these skills is through Play.
Together with Purpose and the Lego Foundation, we created SiyaDlala SiyaFunda – a movement to encourage parents and caregivers to recognise the benefits of learning through play, dedicate more time to playing with their children, and demand more space and time for play to happen in their homes, communities, and classrooms.
The movement started in 2019 in Columbia, Rwanda and Brazil, and launched in South Africa in June 2022. It is supported by all the main partner organisations working in the Early Childhood Development sector.
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