WAYS TO GIVE

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Become a corporate Partner  

The Geness Foundation has a multiplicity of established programmes that would appeal to corporate social responsibility practitioners and corporates alike. 

Making a contribution to the foundation provides you with a unique lever whilst also ensuring that you contribute towards the achievement of your BBBEE score card in South Africa.

There are many ways to support the Geness Foundation’s mission, but the most convenient is a corporate donation.

Other ways corporates can support the Geness Foundation include:

• Strategic marketing collaborations
• Sponsorship opportunities
• Employee giving campaign
• Gifts-in-kind
• Cause-related marketing
• Fund a project
• Fund a Project and build a partnership with the foundation and our beneficiaries

With Fund a Project you take direct action to enable the Geness Foundation to engage socially with its many communities. This is how it works:

You choose the project you want to support from the four categories below.

You contribute to enable the Geness Foundation to develop and establish the programme.

You keep track of results by requesting annual updates.

With Fund a Project you give to the project you select, to change the lives of thousands of people, and see the results.

Individual giving

Become an individual partner

You can support both projects and bursaries for talented students. In order to support projects, please click on Fund a Project.

Leave a legacy

Leaving a bequest to the Geness Foundation offers you an opportunity to extend your support and influence beyond your lifetime and keep alive for years to come your hopes, your ideals, and your vision. When you include the foundation in your will, you become a partner in progress, possibly in a way you could never have envisaged.

The foundation’s relationships with individual benefactors are invaluable in our quest to keep pace with technological advances and improve our reputation for excellence in execution of our programmes. Privately sourced funds are vital to us in consolidating our position as a leading foundation in Africa.

Please contact us if you would like to make a bequest. Should you decide to include a legacy to the Foundation in your will, please accept our gratitude.

Becoming a willing partner

A bequest to the Foundation can be made with stipulations that match your interests.

You have the choice of bequeathing a certain percentage of your estate or a specified amount.

Some benefactors elect to bequeath real estate, investments, works of art, books, or life insurance policies.

No matter the size or form, all bequests to the Foundation are exempt from estate duty.

The choice is yours

If you would like to consider making a gift or bequest to the Foundation, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will provide whatever advice and information you might require.

Tax Benefits

In terms of Section 18A of 1962 (as amended) of the Income Tax Act, all gifts and donations to the Foundation are tax deductible.

Contact Information

info@genessfoundation.co.za

The foundation would be grateful if you would let us know of your intentions and how you wish us to keep in touch with you in the future. Any information you provide will of course be treated with the utmost confidentiality.

Gifts-in-kind

Product and service donations can provide valuable support to the Geness Foundation’s programmes and projects. 

All donations in kind are tax exempt.

If you are interested in learning more about Gift-in-kind opportunities please contact 

info@genessfoundation.co.za