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On 1st October 2026, CivSource Africa marks nine years of learning, building, questioning and growing. As we celebrate how far we have come, we also look ahead to the organisation we are becoming and the future we are still daring to build.
What happens when young people grow up surrounded by concrete, traffic and overcrowding, with limited access to nature? In this edition of SA Realities in Philanthropy, CivSource South Africa reflects on the relationship between nature, education, inequality and healthy development, asking us to consider whether access to green and restorative spaces should be understood as part of a broader question of equity for young people.
Five years ago, CivSource Africa stepped into the Weaving Resilience Initiative unsure of what it could contribute to conversations on financial resilience. What followed was a journey that reshaped how the organisation thinks about money, reserves, systems, staff wellbeing and institutional sustainability. In this reflection, Jacqueline Asiimwe looks back on how saying yes to unfamiliar work strengthened both the organisation and the people within it, and how resilience became something to build deliberately, long before a crisis arrives.
Join us for the official launch of the Ukarimu Centre for Advancing African Philanthropy, a space dedicated to strengthening African knowledge, practice and voice in philanthropy.
Date: 8 October 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Venue: Main Hall, Main Building, Makerere University
The Financial Fitness Bootcamp is a four-day residential experience designed to help CSO leaders strengthen their financial fitness through learning, practical planning and peer exchange.
Participants will have space to examine how they manage resources, plan for the future and build stronger financial practices that can support greater organisational resilience.
Date: 29 October – 1 November 2026
Venue: The Great Outdoors, Kalanamu, Zirobwe, Luwero
Participation Fee: UGX 700,000 per participant Facilitation, accommodation and meals included.
For inquiries: +256 786 249 391
As international aid budgets shrink, the crisis facing civil society extends beyond funding. Sofía Sprechmann Sineiro argues that civil society organisations are essential public institutions that protect rights, strengthen participation, support marginalised communities and hold power to account. Their sustainability therefore depends not only on financial adaptation, but also on protecting civic space, building long-term relationships and recognising civil society as part of the infrastructure that allows democracy to survive. Read the full article.
Philanthropy in Mozambique is already alive in everyday community practice. Across the country, people give, organise, save, lend, and support one another through faith groups, community networks, social funds, and practices such as xitique, a community-based savings and lending system.
A new report, “Exploratory Mapping of the Philanthropy Support Ecosystem in Mozambique,” looks at these existing forms of giving and asks what it would take to make them more visible, connected, credible, and locally led. The report highlights the support structures, relationships, and investments needed to strengthen Mozambique’s philanthropy ecosystem over time.
The Gates Foundation and OpenAI have launched Horizon 1000, a USD 50 million initiative to support AI-enabled primary healthcare in African countries, beginning in Rwanda. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 primary healthcare clinics and surrounding communities by 2028, supporting health workers with tools that can improve access, care quality, and service delivery.
