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Your 2023 giving calendar - event ideas for everyone!
Planning your next team building event? Looking for fun ways to get involved in your community with your friends and family? There are so many exciting ways you can get involved and give back - all ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. SU students tutor online!
Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Matie Community Service (MGD) is changing lives through their Engaged Citizenship Campaign. The Engaged Citizenship project is all about providing ...
Corporate Volunteering in Action. Showcasing ECD Centres!
Nkhensani Dhumazi works in the Compliance team at Momentum Metropolitan, one of forgood's corporate clients. MM has their own bespoke version of www.forgood.co.za, where employees can find social ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Paying it forward for food security.
Michelene Benson believes that happiness and fulfillment are a result of finding balance in our lives. Harmony is her sacred word, and she finds balance in her own life through giving and enriching ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Financial Education for everyone!
We met Kristia van Heerden, a financial educator and journalist, when she presented an education session to the forgood staff. Whilst preparing for that session, Kristia decided to volunteer with the ...
Virtual Volunteering. WHAT it is and WHY it's so important to harness the power of remote help!
Virtual volunteering is a term describing a volunteer who completes tasks, in whole or in part, off-site from the organisation or person being assisted, using the Internet and a ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Building computers for impact!
Artem Markov, a Master's student at Wits University interested in "strange hobbies", created an offer on forgood to help a Cause by building up "new" computers using old PC components. It was such ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Creating a presentation during lockdown.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Laurianne Unger and her husband donated to various Causes, as there were so many people displaced and in desperate need. Laurianne (who works as a manager in the Global ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Designing and mentoring during lockdown.
Shabana Patel, who works as a Senior Actuarial Analyst at Momentum Metropolitan used her time and skills to help two forgood Causes during lockdown. She designed posters for a campaign by Missing ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Providing translation services during #Lockdown
Vuyi Gwala, from Pietermaritzburg, was keen to give Virtual Volunteering a go. She found an opportunity on forgood to use her language skills to do some translation for The Cancer Association of ...
There has never been a better time to explore Virtual Volunteering than now...
We came across a great blog post written by Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications. It's especially relevant when we think about volunteering in the time of COVID-19. With her kind permission, ...
Virtual Volunteering in Action. Newsletter design during lockdown.
On 15 July 2020, Sedicka Johnson was browsing around forgood and found a volunteering opportunity where a Cause was asking for help designing a newsletter. It was a great match to her skillset, so ...
Capitec spearheads Virtual Volunteering
Covid-19 has undoubtedly called for businesses to go back to the drawing board. Not only to reinvent the way they do business, but also the way they do CSI and employee engagement. At forgood, ...