Cape Care Fund launched to support struggling non-profits

The newly established Cape Care Fund which aims to boost the resilience of organisations in the social services sector, was launched on Friday June 6, at the Kelvin Grove Club, Newlands.

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According to the provincial MEC for the Department of Social Development (DSD), Jaco Londt, the Cape Care Fund (CCF) is a special purpose vehicle created between his department and The Health Foundation of South Africa to raise funds to further support the work of the provincial DSD through vetted, registered, compliant, well-functioning non-profit organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a proven track record of quality service delivery in the social services sector, in the province.

Mr Londt said that non-profits and NGOs in the country and province are facing the combined impact of static or reduced government transfers and donor funding in the wake of the country’s post-Covid-19 economic downturn.

“Many funders, including the government, have faced reduced income and have had to reduce or even cease funding non-profits altogether,” he said.