Gifts4Good with its Make Christmas Matter promotion is an online shop with a difference. A GreaterGood South Africa initiative, Gifts4Good stocks carefully selected alternative ‘gifts’ which support assessed development projects working to eradicate poverty in South Africa.

How it works:

1. You choose some great alternative gifts
2. Customise your own gift messages to send to friends, family, colleagues or loved ones.
3. Checkout and change lives in South Africa – for good.

Where your gifts go

We use the SASIX assessment and evaluation process to select the projects and organisations that benefit, except in the Community gift group where gifts support volunteering projects on our Do It Day campaign.

We use this process to ensure that gifts will have a real and meaningful impact on people and communities, and that the donated money will be properly spent and accounted for.

Gifts represent real items needed by SASIX and Do It Day projects. In order for your gift to make a real, sustainable difference on the ground, the monetary value of the gift contributes to the overall implementation of projects in the gift group you have chosen. Gifts4Good transfers the value of your donation to the organisation once the entire project has been fully funded.

Come back to track your impact

All organisations funded through Gifts4Good and Make Christmas Matter have to submit detailed reports on the progress and completion of their projects. We post highlights from these reports on our News page – so keep coming back to find out how your gifts have helped to change lives.

Rocking the giving season

Over the giving season from November to January each year, our Make Christmas Matter promotion offers a range of alternative festive gifts to help people make a difference at this special time of year. Gifts are linked to specific, evaluated social development projects that are in need of funding. We use the same SASIX process to select, monitor and evaluate the projects that will benefit from your giving season generosity.

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