Community Chest Publications

LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AND TRAINING INSTITUTE

We are proud of the evolution of the Leadership Academy Training Institute (LATI) from a backyard idea more than two decades ago to a fully-fledged training academy housed in our building and named after its founder and former Community Chest CEO Amelia Jones.

LATI operates to the same values and aims of those early days, which is to serve the capacity building needs of under-resourced community organisations, particularly those in marginalized communities. The demand for our training programmes have grown to such an extent, though, that we now offer them to span the entire civil society spectrum, including NGOs, government and parastatals as they work towards addressing poverty, striving for equality, justice, and humanitarian approaches.

WEBINARS

Our Leadership Academy and Training Institute hosted a series of thought leadership webinars during 2020 with key civil society leaders. These included:

Non-Profits and the Reset Message: What Awaits Philanthropy Post-Lockdown

Women, Trauma and Mental Wellness in a Global Pandemic

Non-Profits and the Reset Message: The Donor Response Post-Lockdown

Non-Profits and the Reset Message: The Sustainability and Viability of the NGO Sector in a PostCOVID-19 South Africa

Virtual Master Class: Maintaining Good Governance in Times of Crisis

Women in Leadership and Their Resilience in Times of Crisis

PARTNERS IN HEALTH

HEALTH AND WELFARE SECTOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING AUTHORITY

Since March 2020, Community Chest has been a first responder in communities, facilitating relief efforts by standing in civil society as a catalyst and convener between different sectors and communities. HWSETA has been instrumental in this process and has made significant contributions towards preserving the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities during this time. The key interventions that were supported by HWSETA are:

o Healthcare services o Food relief activations o Homelessness interventions

HWSETA Health Care

The healthcare services aspect of the partnership focused on fortifying communities in their fight against Covid-19. HW SETA invested a significant amount of resources to procure and administer flu vaccinations along with Covid-19 and TB screening services. Individuals were issued cloth face masks as well.

In October 2020, Community Chest assisted our project implementation partners to train field workers and staff to offer these services in the following municipalities: • The City of Cape Town • eThekwini Municipality • Msunduzi Local Municipality • Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality • King Sabatha Dalindyebo Local Municipality