Our valued partners
SAfm (broadcast partner)
SAfm (104-107) shall be interviewing a media spokesperson from each of the selected NPO’s during the 16 Days of Activism on Otherwise with Nancy Richards each weekday at 13:05. The Foschini Group CSI shall only be featured in one interview and we shall be producing an opening and closing billboard and two generic ads to be aired each day of the campaign.
City Press (print partner)
The City Press newspaper is running four ads over the 16 Days of Activism, in which we shall direct readers to The Foschini Group website, which will have a link to each NPO’s profile on GreaterGood SA. Furthermore, City Press online shall be featuring an NPO a day for the 16 Days of Activism.
MXit (mobile partner)
MXit is a free instant messaging program for mobile phones and PCs. MXit has a registered userbase of over 15 million and over 250 million messages sent/received per day. The average age group of MXit users ranges from 12-35+ with the main group of users falling in the 19-25 bracket. MXit will upload, host and push downloads to the user through the Bandit portal of content provided by The Foschini Group CSI for the 16 Days Campaign for a vastly reduced fee. The intent is to communicate important messages through MXit regarding domestic violence, abuse, human rights, how to help stop abuse, or where to find help if you are in an abusive relationship or home etc.
Childline on MXit:
The project works through MXit and went live on 25th May 2009. Counselling and assistance is being offered nationally and is available Monday to Saturday from 2pm – 6pm. The counsellors are Durban-based and operate from the Childline South Africa National office. The project is in full operation through the assistance of volunteer counsellors who were recruited and trained in April and who have been working hard to make a success of this project.
GreaterGood SA (website partner)
GreaterGood South Africa connects social investors with the development world in meaningful and innovative ways to create positive change in communities. Their cutting-edge social benefit networking website (www.greatergoodsa.co.za), social investment exchange (www.sasix.co.za) and public call-to-action campaigns provide new ways for people to engage with South Africa’s development.
GreaterGood is about results-driven giving: they seek out opportunities that will have a measurable, life-changing impact on people and their communities. And they work to level the playing field by giving small, pioneering non profit organisations the same access to funds and capacity development as the better-known causes.
Since their launch in 2004, GreaterGood South Africa has:
- Raised over R35 million for good causes
- Generated 50,000 hours of volunteer skills and time
- Facilitated the distribution of over 7.3 million second hand and surplus goods.
GreaterGood South Africa is sponsoring interactive website pages for each of the 16 non profit organisations. These pages enable direct public interaction with the various organisations.
Anything Goes (video production partner)
Providing high quality video production is the mission at Anything Goes Productions. Anything Goes are sponsoring the conceptualisation, shooting and editing of three video clips for online and MXit use.
Flat Stanley (providing music for the campaign)
The South African acoustic rock outfit, Flat Stanley has provided the official campaign theme tune for the Foschini Group CSI 16 Charities, 16 Days campaign. Their single, Song for the Broken Hearted will be available as a downloadable ringtone on MXit as well as being the jingle for all promotion and advertising of the campaign on SAfm and for the viral video clips.