Gifts4Good is an online shop that offers a range of alternative gifts to help people make a difference throughout the year. You can choose gifts that change lives for any special occasion, such as birthdays, anniversaries, religious celebrations or Mother's and Father's day. Gifts are chosen from projects in five priority social development sectors: Education, Community, Health, Environment and People. The projects are screened and evaluated through the South African Social Investment Exchange (SASIX).
What is SASIX?
The South African Social Investment Exchange (SASIX) is a social investment platform where carefully selected development projects are listed for people to invest in for as little as R50 per share. The return on the investment is social, rather than financial, but is nonetheless vital for South Africa’s future. SASIX applies the same sort of due diligence consideration to projects as would be applied to purely financial investments, including assessing need and evaluating depth, breadth, permanence, strengths and risks. The selection and evaluation process gives our investors the peace of mind that their contribution is invested into a highly evaluated, accountable and sustainable project.
How does it work?
The Gifts4Good online store has a range of gifts to help you change lives this festive season:
Buy a gift for a friend and for a good cause at the same time.
The value of your gift goes to a community project in need.
Your friend gets a fun e-card and together you change lives.
What happens if the recipient of my gift does not have an email address?
A printable version of the gift e-card is available as an option in the checkout process. Click PREVIEW THIS CARD to print the card out. You can present your gift recipient with the printed card on their special day.
Do you send the project the actual gift?
Our gift ideas are taken from the actual budgets of projects assessed and listed through our SA Social Investment Exchange (SASIX). However, it would not be sensible or sustainable to send individual items to projects as the money was donated. Instead, we wait for the entire project to be funded and then pay the money over to the organisation in managed tranche payments. The organisation must submit a detailed report on their expenditure in order to receive their next tranche payment. They are also required to submit a report when the project is complete. This way, we can fulfil our promise to you, the donor, that the money is properly spent and accounted for and that the project beneficiaries really benefit from the items you have paid for with your gift.
How can my company make use of Gifts4Good for corporate gifting to staff, clients or suppliers?
You can select gifts ranging from R50 to R1,000 and send a branded e-card.
You can purchase a range of branded vouchers that can be redeemed by your staff or customers online for a life-changing gift of their choice.
You can buy a corporate hamper of gifts from a particular gift group for R5,000.
All this will cost is the value of the gift and if you wish to personalise the e-card or vouchers - a nominal fee to cover our design and development costs.
I don't have a credit card, how can I support the campaign?
You can make a donation to Gifts4Good by direct deposit or electronic transfer in two ways:
Click on Quick Donate and choose electronic transfer as your payment method. You will be taken through the necessary steps.
If you don’t have access to the internet, you can make a direct deposit into our bank account as follows:
Account name: GreaterGood SA Trust
Bank: Nedbank
Branch: Cape Town
Branch code: 12-32-09
Account number: 1232125482
Please use the reference: G4G and the gift group you want to support (this is so that we can make sure your donation goes to where it is intended) and send us confirmation of your donation.
Unfortunately, we do not have the facility to send gifts in this way, so your 'gift' will be a donation to the gift group of your choice.
Where do the gifts go?
All the gifts support carefully selected projects working towards the eradication of poverty in South Africa. The gifts are chosen from approved project budgets in priority development sectors including Health, People, Education, Environment and Community.
What portion of the gift money goes to the project?
The full amount of your gift is credited to the project budget. A 15% administration, assessment, evaluation and monitoring fee is added to every project budget on SASIX before it is listed for funding - so that the project budget itself is not affected.
How do you choose which organisations receive these gifts?
Gifts4Good uses GreaterGood SA's SASIX assessment and evaluation process to select the projects that will benefit. This includes peer review panels, site visits, a comprehensive organisation and risk assessment, research, evaluation and detailed reporting.
So when you buy a Gifts4Good gift, you can be sure that your contribution will make a real difference, to real people and communities, facing identified challenges in South Africa.
What are the prices for the different gifts?
Gifts range in price from R50 to R5,000 – to suit every budget.
What happens over the festive season?
During the Giving Season from November to January every year, we choose a range of special festive season gifts from specific community projects in need of funding.
You can see details of these projects, their funding targets and progress towards that target by clicking on the gifts for the Giving Season, market by a gold ribbon.
Are my card and personal details secure?
Gifts4Good takes your security and privacy very seriously. We do not store credit card details - you need to enter these each time you buy gifts - and will never share your details with a third party. We use Virtual Card Services - a reputable and widely used payment gateway - for conducting secure transactions and have a Thawte SSL Certificate.
Why do I have to register to buy a gift?
Like any online shop, we need your email address to process your transaction and to send you notification that your gift has been purchased. Your gift will contribute to the funding of projects within a priority social development sectors and we keep you updated on the progress of these projects.
I have other questions, who do I contact?
Please email info@ggsa.co.za or call us on (021) 762 7944.
